Delaware · Private foundation
The Brandsma Family 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.
- $584k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 289
- Grants FY2025
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 65
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 24
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Brandsma Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 78 | $576k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 65 | $918k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 60 | $837k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $1.4M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $1.2M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $1.3M | 54% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $1.1M | 38% |
| FY2017 | 31 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timothy Christian Schools | $3,919,558 | 8 | 4% |
| Christ Church of Oak Brook | $966,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Love Without Boundaries Foundation | $520,216 | 8 | 4% |
| Elim Christian Services | $384,760 | 8 | 0% |
| Enduring Hearts Inc | $260,000 | 6 | 9% |
| Sota Convoys | $250,000 | 4 | 40% |
| Children's Hunger Fund | $241,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Living With Hope | $190,000 | 6 | 13% |
| Mission to Heal | $156,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Association for a More Just Society -Us | $148,200 | 6 | 5% |
Show all 110 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($126k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Brandsma Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 92 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: Barnabas Foundation · The John and Phyllis Groot Foundation · Van Dyke Family Charitable Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Marvin G & Jerene L Dewitt Family Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Dupage Community Foundation · Thomas M and Marilyn J Dewitt Norman Family Foundation · James and Susan Bere Family Foundation · Nicholas Leep & Hilda Leep Foundation · David and Karen Bere Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Brandsma Family Foundation
- How much does The Brandsma Family Foundation give?
- The Brandsma Family Foundation reported 289 grants totaling $584,339 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Brandsma Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (55%), International (20%), Religion (14%).
- Who are The Brandsma Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Timothy Christian Schools ($3.9M), Christ Church of Oak Brook ($966k), Love Without Boundaries Foundation ($520k).
- Does The Brandsma Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Brandsma 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 Brandsma Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Barnabas Foundation, The John and Phyllis Groot Foundation, Van Dyke Family Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Brandsma Family Foundation based?
- The Brandsma Family Foundation is based in DE.
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