· Private foundation
Ronald and Barbara Brunner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CROOK COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| WESTON COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY SHARING PANTRY | $2,500 |
| Royall School District | $2,000 |
| MAUSTON HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 MAUSTON AREA AMBULANCE ASSN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LISBON FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds SUNDANCE RODEO CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GABRIEL PROJECT OF WYOMING INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HILLSBORO INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi · Land O'Lakes Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ronald and Barbara Brunner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ronald and Barbara Brunner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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