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S & E Bramsen Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$7.8MAnimals$1.5MHuman Services$1.3MEducation$1.1MPhilanthropy$920kYouth Development$325kEnvironment$181kHousing & Shelter$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $52k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.3M
$3,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$279k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
US EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION$5,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY OF ILLINOIS$5,000
EQUINE LAND CONSERVATION RESOURCE$5,000
BARRINGTON AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$3,000
PARKINSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION$3,000
GLENDALE HEIGHTS POLICE DEPARTMENT$2,960
OPENLANDS$2,500
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH$2,000
MUSEUM OF DANISH AMERICA$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OPERATION HOMEFRONT: $10k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $500k → 15%LAND CONSERVATION OF MCHENRY COUNTY: $13k → 6%THE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%US EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5k → 7%EQUINE LAND CONSERVATION RESOURCE: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $500k → 15%CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%US EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%EQUINE LAND CONSERVATION RESOURCE: $5k → 15%THE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%US EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%EQUINE LAND CONSERVATION RESOURCE: $5k → 15%THE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%US EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%EQUINE LAND CONSERVATION RESOURCE: $5k → 15%THE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%US EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%EQUINE LAND CONSERVATION RESOURCE: $5k → 15%THE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE: $25k → 7%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $50k → 14%NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE: $25k → 7%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $50k → 14%HUDSON INSITUTE - AWARD DINNER SPONSOR: $100k → 14%NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE: $25k → 7%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $50k → 14%NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE: $25k → 7%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $50k → 14%PEDERSEN MCCORMICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $25k → 7%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $50k → 14%NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE: $25k → 7%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $50k → 14%HOME CENTERED CARE INSTITUTE: $3.0M → 14%LITTLE HOME CHURCH BY THE WAYSIDE: $75k → 7%HOME CENTERED CARE INSTITUTE: $1.6M → 14%HOME CENTERED CARE INSTITUTE: $1.5M → 14%HOME CENTERED CARE INSTITUTE: $1.5M → 14%HOME CENTERED CARE INSTITUE (HCCI): $1.3M → 14%HOME CENTERED CARE INSTITUTE: $170k → 14%BARRINGTON AREA CONSERVATION TRUST: $15k → 14%BARRINGTON AREA CONSERVATION TRUST: $8k → 14%CHICAGO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $1.0M → 14%CHICAGO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $150k → 14%CHICAGO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $150k → 14%CHICAGO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $150k → 14%THE DANISH HOME: $100k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MA
OR
IA
OH
NJ
KY
VA
MD
AZ
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 27 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
4

Total granted

$11M
$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+105%

Still filing today

74%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureHealthAnimalsInternationalEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HC
    HOME CENTERED CARE INSTITUTE
    5× · 2017–2022 · $7.7M · revenue +62% · 63% of their budget
  • Chicago Zoological Society
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +80%
  • NC
    North Central College
    5× · 2017–2021 · $125k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • LH
    Little Home Church by the Wayside
    one grant, 2018 · $75k
  • PM
    PEDERSEN MCCORMICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • TL
    THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF MCHENRY COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +105%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
2
Lincoln Park Zoological Society

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…

Animals
3
Heartlands Conservancy

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.

Environment
4
Lincoln Park Conservancy

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…

Recreation & Sports
5
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
6
Minnesota Land Trust

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.

Environment
7
The Trustees of Reservations

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.

Environment
8
Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation

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…

Environment
9
Wildlands Trust Inc

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…

Environment
10
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
11
Conservation Minnesota

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.

Environment
12
Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barrington Area Conservation Trust Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 37 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
19/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOME CENTERED CARE INSTITUTE: $7,729,700 · HealthHOME CENTERED CARE INSTITUTE+2 more: $23,500 · HealthHOME CENTERED CARE INSTITUE (HCCI): $1,320,000 · OtherHOME CENTERED CARE INST…UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $1,000,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OREGONTHE DANISH HOME: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · Other+19 more: $303,410 · Other+19 moreChicago Zoological Society: $1,450,000 · AnimalsChicago Zool…+1 more: $7,000 · AnimalsFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $900,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $300,000 · InternationalTHE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EnvironmentCITIZENS FOR CONSERVATION INC: $35,000 · EnvironmentEQUINE LAND CONSERVATION RESOURCE: $35,000 · EnvironmentBARRINGTON AREA CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $32,500 · EnvironmentLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $7,000 · EnvironmentNorth Central College: $125,000 · Education
Health$7,753,200Other$2,823,410Animals$1,457,000Community Improvement$910,000International$300,000Environment$144,500Education$125,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOME CENTERED CARE INSTITUTE: $7,729,700 over 5y, 63% of budgetChicago Zoological Society: $1,450,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $900,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $300,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetNorth Central College: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZENS FOR CONSERVATION INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetEQUINE LAND CONSERVATION RESOURCE: $35,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetBARRINGTON AREA CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $32,500 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetBARRINGTON AREA COMM FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $19,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOPENLANDS: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUM: $14,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAND CONSERVANCY OF MCHENRY COUNTY: $12,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetParkinson Research Foundation Inc: $10,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHOOVED ANIMAL RESCUE & PROTECTION SOCIETY: $7,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE ELLIS ISLAND INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBarrington History Museum: $750 over 3y, 0.7% of budget
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 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 THE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CITIZENS FOR CONSERVATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUINE LAND CONSERVATION RESOURCE ↗
  • 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 BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOOVED ANIMAL RESCUE & PROTECTION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds SAVE ELLIS ISLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds Barrington History Museum ↗

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.

Hamill Family Foundat…The Corwith FundIllinois Clean Energy…The Chicago Community…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Hamill Family FoundationIL26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization S & E Bramsen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from S & E Bramsen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Save Ellis Island Inc: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to S & E Bramsen Foundation?

Find your warmest path to S & E Bramsen Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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