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The Braun 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.
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 $10k40 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAZARETH LUTHERAN CHURCH | $45,000 |
| LAKOTA HUNTING WITH HEROES | $15,000 |
| IOWA HALL OF FAME & RACING MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| INSPIRED LIFE | $7,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,500 |
| MAGICAL MIX KIDS | $4,555 |
| ST PATS SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| CEDAR RIDGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| MERCY ONE FOUNDATION | $3,600 |
| COMBAT RUSH | $3,000 |
| NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| DARE PROGRAM | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $2,500 |
| FURRIES 4 FOSTERS | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 24 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
- CVCEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +65%
- IOIMPACT OUTDOORS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +45%
- NINORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK3× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- HWHUNTING WITH HEROES INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -36%
- HWHUNTING WITH HEROESone grant, 2023 · $10k
- IHIOWA HALL OF FAME RACING MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Children's cancer research fund fuels transformational research to bring better treatments and cures to children with cancer.
National brain tumor society unrelentingly invests in, mobilizes, andunites our community to discover a cure, deliver effective treatments,and advocate for patients and care partners.
At conquering chd we exist to conquerin the most common birth defect. we engage, listen, learn, and act. we create visibility and empower all impacted by chd. we accomplish this through awareness, knowledge, community and research.
The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.
The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.
The mission of mila's miracle foundation is to find and fund paths to a cure for batten and other life-threatening neurological disorders. families in this community have been pivotal in raising the necessary funds and awareness. together,…
As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…
Miracle flights is a national charity that provides free commercial airline tickets for u.s. residents in need of distant medical care not available in their own communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Iowa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Keeping Racing Alive. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 229 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CEDAR FALLS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAGICAL MIX KIDS ↗
- Who funds LAKOTA HUNTING WITH HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTING WITH HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRED LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CRUSADERS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds RALLY4ACAUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMPACT OUTDOORS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CEDAR BEND HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NO FOOT TOO SMALL ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RIDGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMI Pup Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
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: Lsb Foundation · Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation · Otto Schoitz Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Boaz's Harvest-Zachary Foundation · Black Hawk County Gaming Association · Molinaro Family Charitable Foundation · Duroe Family Foundation · The Accel Foundation · Pauline R Barrett Charitable Foundation · Charlotte and William Hinson Charitable Foundation Trust
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 The Braun Family 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.
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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