California · Private foundation
The Brandenburg Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 88
- Grants FY2024
- 97
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $252,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 58 to 97
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $9k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations The Brandenburg Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 88 | $1.1M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 97 | $1.6M | 32% |
| FY2022 | 77 | $1.2M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 62 | $1.3M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 58 | $901k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies | $1,583,000 | 5 | n/a |
| The Forgotten International | $946,104 | 5 | 36% |
| Boy Scouts of America 55 Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council | $271,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Sempervirens Fund | $270,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Symphony San Jose | $236,942 | 5 | 5% |
| Cristo Rey San Jose High School | $203,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Silicon Valley | $160,913 | 5 | 0% |
| Pivotal Connections | $107,788 | 5 | 2% |
| San Jose Childrens Musical Theater | $102,750 | 2 | 3% |
| San Jose Police Foundation | $90,000 | 4 | 12% |
Show all 104 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($878k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Brandenburg Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 94 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Kieve Foundation · The Catholic Community Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · The Kirkorian Family Foundation · The Valley Foundation · Farrington Historical Foundation · Valley Health Foundation (Vhf)
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Brandenburg Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Brandenburg Family 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.
About The Brandenburg Family Foundation
- How much does The Brandenburg Family Foundation give?
- The Brandenburg Family Foundation reported 88 grants totaling $1,121,721 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 97 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Brandenburg Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (27%), International (17%), Education (11%).
- Who are The Brandenburg Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies ($1.6M), The Forgotten International ($946k), Boy Scouts of America 55 Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council ($271k).
- Does The Brandenburg Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Brandenburg Family 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 The Brandenburg Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The Sobrato Family Foundation, Bright Funds Foundation.
- Where is The Brandenburg Family Foundation based?
- The Brandenburg Family Foundation is based in CA.
Play a game based on Brandenburg Family’s filings →