· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CEDAR RIDGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| ST PATS SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| MERCY ONE FOUNDATION | $3,600 |
| COMBAT RUSH | $3,000 |
| NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| FURRIES 4 FOSTERS | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| DARE PROGRAM | $2,500 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- IHIOWA HALL OF FAME RACING MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $10k
- HWHUNTING WITH HEROESone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
71 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. 71 of the 229 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Braun Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Braun Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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