· Private foundation
The Brunjes Family Charitable Trust
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
73% of The Brunjes Family Charitable Trust’s FY2024 grant dollars went to World Vision Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $311k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD VISION | $228,512 |
| JERICHO PARTNERSHIP | $82,000 |
| TISBEST PHILANTHROPY | $17,632 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY | $6,000 |
| LOVE146 | $5,000 |
| CT AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE | $1,000 |
| JOEL OSTEEN MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| WESTERN CONN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $950 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $513 |
| IMMACULATE HIGH SCHOOL | $450 |
| WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL | $420 |
| INTREPID MUSEUM | $250 |
| GIRLS INC OF SARASOTA COUNTY | $250 |
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 (FY17–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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 +29% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WFWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL4× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +2%
- LILOVE146 INC3× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +110%
- RHREGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC2× · 2017–2023 · $1k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- GFGRACE FARMS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +118%
- WCWESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVone grant, 2017 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $4k
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.
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How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 57 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 WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds JERICHO PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds TISBEST PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds INFUSED IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE146 INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE FARMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Giving Plan Foundation Inc The Giving Plan Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CT Against Gun Violence Inc ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE OCTOBER SAVES GOALIE CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds Copa Safety & Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE FOOD OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SARASOTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE 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: Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Brunjes Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brunjes Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- LOVE146 Inc: 49% of income from government
- Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc: 17% of income from government
- Jericho Partnership Inc: 7% of income from government
- Nantucket Community Music Center: 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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