Florida · 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.
- $801k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 90
- Grants FY2024
- 88
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $69,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 79 to 97
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 18
- Total assets, FY2024
- $18M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations The Bruning Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 90 | $801k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 88 | $815k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 82 | $793k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 79 | $749k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 86 | $931k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 97 | $976k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 91 | $986k | 23% |
| FY2017 | 91 | $879k | 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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Lakeland Discovery Center Inc | $571,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Ducks Unlimited Inc | $390,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Northwest Community Healthcare | $325,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation | $240,100 | 7 | 1% |
| Beloit College | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Seamark Ranch Inc | $180,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Jacksonville University | $167,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Woodlands Academy | $123,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Saint Thomas Rutherford Foundation | $120,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Beef 4 Hunger | $119,000 | 8 | 32% |
Show all 124 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 90 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Bruning Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 108 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: 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
How this is measured
About The Bruning Foundation
- How much does The Bruning Foundation give?
- The Bruning Foundation reported 90 grants totaling $801,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 79 and 97 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Bruning Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (20%), Health (18%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are The Bruning Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: North Lakeland Discovery Center Inc ($571k), Ducks Unlimited Inc ($390k), Northwest Community Healthcare ($325k).
- Does The Bruning Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bruning 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 Bruning Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, AbbVie Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation.
- Where is The Bruning Foundation based?
- The Bruning Foundation is based in FL.
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