· Private foundation
The Bruning 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k61 grants · $233k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $450k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $119k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER | $69,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,000 |
| CARMEL HIGH SCHOOL | $45,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $24,500 |
| BROWN FAMILY YMCA | $21,000 |
| SEAMARK RANCH | $20,000 |
| JACKSONVILLE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| CAN-DO CANINES | $18,000 |
| TWIN CITIES PET RESCUE | $16,000 |
| DICKINSON COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE GTM RESERVE | $15,000 |
| ME SQUARED CANCER CENTER | $15,000 |
| LOVE FUTBOL INC | $15,000 |
| ST THOMAS RUTHERFORD FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $375k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% 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 +50% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
133 repeat relationships — 75 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k 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
- NLNORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $571k · revenue +72%
- DUDucks Unlimited Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $390k · revenue +99%
- NCNorthwest Community Healthcare5× · 2017–2021 · $325k · revenue +197%
Funded once
CONVERSE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +49%- M2Matthew 25 Ministries Incone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +21%
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATERone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Roberti Community House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
115 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. 115 of the 215 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 NORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds Northwest Community Healthcare ↗
- Who funds Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation ↗
- Who funds BELOIT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SEAMARK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville University ↗
- Who funds SAINT THOMAS RUTHERFORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEEF 4 HUNGER ↗
- Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
- Who funds GLADIOLUS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PET RESCUE ↗
- Who funds TKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOLL COMMUNITY IMPACT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Magdalene House Chicago Inc ↗
- Who funds SHATTUCK-ST MARY'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CONVERSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Bridging Bionics Foundation ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOVE FUTBOL 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: Xcel Energy Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Nextfifty Initiative · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Colorado Health Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc
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 Bruning 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.
- Preeclampsia Foundation Inc — 9% of income from government
- Jacksonville University — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Larc Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.