· Private foundation
Ronald and Barbara Brunner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mauston Area Ambulance Assn Inc | $10,000 |
| St Paul's Catholic Church | $10,000 |
| Carl W Nelson Animal Shelter | $5,000 |
| ST THERESA EUCHARISTIC CHAPEL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| WESTON COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| CROOK COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY SHARING PANTRY | $2,500 |
| Royall School District | $2,000 |
| MAUSTON HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS | $100 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SPST PATRICK'S PARISH MAUSTON3× · 2022–2024 · $71k
- OROPERATION RENEWED HOPE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $54k · revenue -5%
- CNCARL NELSON ANIMAL SHELTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- WCWeston County Healthone grant, 2024 · $500k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $50k
- ALAMERICAN LEGIONone grant, 2022 · $40k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Emergency Food Pantry
To eliminate hunger in the guernsey community.
Assisting those in need in our area
Provide food to people in need
To prevent hunger for persons located in northern stokes county
Providing food, clothing, and household goods to needy families in milwaukee county
Providing free food to needy New Hampshire residents.
Furnish needy famililes food
purchase food and supplies
Food Pantry
Giving food & supplies
The North Scott Food Pantry provides food for people in need. Clients receive enough food for about one week and are allowed to get food every 28 days. There were 721 visits to our food pantry in 2025.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Sharing Pantry Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OPERATION RENEWED HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARL NELSON ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds TOYS FOR JOY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SHARING PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LISBON FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MAUSTON AREA AMBULANCE ASSN INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds SUNDANCE RODEO CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GABRIEL PROJECT OF WYOMING INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HILLSBORO INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi · Land O'Lakes Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ronald and Barbara Brunner Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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