Illinois · Private foundation
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.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,320,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $279k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations S & E Bramsen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $1.6M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $43k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $189k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $1.8M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $270k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $4.6M | 5% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $2.2M | 57% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $365k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home Centered Care Institute | $7,729,700 | 5 | 63% |
| Chicago Zoological Society | $1,450,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Junior Achievement of Chicago | $300,000 | 6 | 1% |
| North Central College | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Little Home Church by the Wayside | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Conservation Foundation | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| United States Equestrian Team Foundation Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Citizens for Conservation Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Equine Land Conservation Resource | $35,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Barrington Area Conservation Trust Inc | $32,500 | 4 | 5% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
S & E Bramsen Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About S & E Bramsen Foundation
- How much does S & E Bramsen Foundation give?
- S & E Bramsen Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $1,571,710 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does S & E Bramsen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (57%), Animals (11%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are S & E Bramsen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Home Centered Care Institute ($7.7M), Chicago Zoological Society ($1.4M), Junior Achievement of Chicago ($300k).
- Does S & E Bramsen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does S & E Bramsen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as S & E Bramsen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hamill Family Foundation, The Corwith Fund, Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation.
- Where is S & E Bramsen Foundation based?
- S & E Bramsen Foundation is based in IL.
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