· Private foundation
The Brubaker 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $30,000 |
| JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH | $30,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $30,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $30,000 |
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION | $30,000 |
| WALSH JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| ONE OF A KIND PET RESCUE | $10,000 |
| AKRON CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK | $10,000 |
| AKRON SNOW ANGELS | $8,500 |
| LOVE OUR COMMUNITY INC | $8,500 |
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, $181k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% 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
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 +90% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $221k · revenue +24%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +145%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $173k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1Done grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +17%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $3k
- SVST VINCENT DEPAUL SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Ovarian cancer research alliance (ocra) is committed to preventing, developing better treatments for and ultimately curing ovarian and related gynecologic cancers through innovative research, raising awareness and ensuring the best care…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
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…
We are a patient-driven organization seeking a cure and working to improve patients' quality of life and life expectancy worldwide.
To improve the health of those we serve.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 17 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
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 PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds ONE OF A KIND PET RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds Akron Snow Angels ↗
- Who funds Love Our Community Inc ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Brubaker Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brubaker Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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