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· Private foundation
THE BRUNNEMER FAMILY FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$37k
Granted FY2024
6
Grants
2
Communities
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0169% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Human Services$435kEducation$120kHealth$58kFood & Nutrition$26kInternational$25kRecreation & Sports$20kYouth Development$1kOther$313k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
health
2019
members
2020
worship godmental healthmembersstudents
2021
sharehealthchurchmembers
2022
members
2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$255k
Total assets
Largest grants
- CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY$10,000
- HOLY CROSS FAITH MEMORIAL CHURCH$10,000
- NOURISH UP$5,000
- REELIN FOR RESEARCH$5,000
- THE GOOD FELLOWS CLUB$5,000
- THE SALVATION ARMY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE$2,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $435k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 12%. 1% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$846k · 13 repeat orgs$152k to everyone else
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
13
13
Total granted
$846k
$152k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+60%
+223%
Still filing today
46%
46%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionInternationalEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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
CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY7× · 2017–2024 · $320k · revenue +3%
DUKE UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2022 · $120k · revenue +11%- NUNOURISH UP3× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +276%
Funded once
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $50k
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $25k
- LWLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEFgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +43%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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NourishNC Inc
Provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Food & Nutrition
2
WakeMed
The mission of wakemed is to improve the health and well-being of our community with outstanding and compassionate care to all.
Health
3
Farmer Foodshare Inc
Farmer foodshare reshapes the disconnected food system by removing barriers to growing and accessing local food. we create markets for local farmers and deliver fresh, healthy food to individuals and families experiencing food insecurity…
Food & Nutrition
4
Interfaith Food Ministry Nevada County
A community where no one should feel the hurt of hunger. Interfaith Food Ministry feeds the hungry and works to reduce food insecurity in Nevada County. We help to sustain health, human dignity and the opportunity for individuals to…
Food & Nutrition
5
Nourish Knoxville Inc
To cultivate healthy communities by supporting relationships between local farmers, producers, and the public.
Food & Nutrition
6
Brighter Bites Inc
Brighter Bites' goal is to improve the long-term health outcomes of those they serve.
Food & Nutrition
7
Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services
Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services is called to express the healing ministry of Jesus Christ by providing behavioral health services with professional excellence, Christian integrity, and compassion.
Health
8
Regent University
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
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9
Western Fairfax Christian Ministries
To provide food and financial support for persons at risk of hunger and homelessness living in western Fairfax County Virginia.
Human Services
10
Cabarrus Cooperative Christian Ministry
To respond to the growing need in our community by providing immediate assistance to residents of Concord, Kannapolis, and Cabarrus County, NC who are experiencing crisis in the areas of food, shelter or finances while providing them…
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11
Manna University
Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.
Education
12
For Charlotte Inc
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
Religion
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran World Relief Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nourish Up. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
12/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$435,000Other$312,600Education$120,000Health$58,000Food & Nutrition$26,470International$25,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Youth Development$1,000
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 CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NOURISH UP ↗
- Who funds REELIN FOR RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF METROLINA ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD FELLOWS CLUB ↗
- Who funds ALL SOULS COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPEWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEED MY LAMBS INC ↗
- Who funds SMITH MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds I AM 247 ↗
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.
Duke Energy FoundationNC14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation THE BRUNNEMER FAMILY 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ALL SOULS COUNSELING CENTER.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +69% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 562200862 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ALL SOULS COUNSELING CENTER, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Brunnemer Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Brunnemer Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines