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S & E Bramsen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k18 grants · $52k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOME CENTERED CARE INSTITUE (HCCI) | $1,320,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| THE DANISH HOME | $100,000 |
| CITIZENS FOR CONSERVATION | $5,000 |
| CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| EQUINE LAND CONSERVATION RESOURCE | $5,000 |
| US EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY OF ILLINOIS | $5,000 |
| BARRINGTON AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PARKINSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| GLENDALE HEIGHTS POLICE DEPARTMENT | $2,960 |
| OPENLANDS | $2,500 |
| MUSEUM OF DANISH AMERICA | $2,000 |
| GARFIELD FARM MUSEUM | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
27 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- HCHOME CENTERED CARE INSTITUTE5× · 2017–2022 · $7.7M · revenue +62% · 63% of their budget
Chicago Zoological Society4× · 2020–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +80%- NCNorth Central College5× · 2017–2021 · $125k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- LHLittle Home Church by the Waysideone grant, 2018 · $75k
- PMPEDERSEN MCCORMICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2017 · $25k
- TLTHE LAND CONSERVANCY OF MCHENRY COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +105%
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.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…
The mission of heartlands conservancy is to empower and colaborate with the people of southern illinois to advance and protect the health of our distinctive communities and nationally significant natural and cultural resources.
The mission of the lincoln park conservancy is to preserve and enhance the inspiring beauty of chicago's largest and most visited park for current and future generations. we believe that beauty matters. that it has the transformative power…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
This member-supported organization protects and restores iowa's land, water and wildlife for future generations. priorities include permanent land protection, promotion of improved land management and bringing new conservation…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barrington Area Conservation Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is United States Equestrian Team Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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. 24 of the 37 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 HOME CENTERED CARE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Chicago Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds North Central College ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR CONSERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds EQUINE LAND CONSERVATION RESOURCE ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON AREA CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON AREA COMM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds OPENLANDS ↗
- Who funds THE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF MCHENRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Parkinson Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds HOOVED ANIMAL RESCUE & PROTECTION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SAVE ELLIS ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Barrington History Museum ↗
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: Hamill Family Foundation · The Corwith Fund · Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 S & E Bramsen 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.
- Save Ellis Island Inc — 10% of income from government
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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