· Private foundation
The Brunnemer Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY | $25,000 |
| REELIN FOR RESEARCH | $5,000 |
| HCEXCELL HAMBLEN COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATONAL EXCELLENCE AND ACHIEVEME | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $460k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
Crisis Assistance Ministry8× · 2017–2025 · $345k · revenue +27%
DUKE UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2022 · $120k · revenue +49%- NUNourish Up3× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $50k
- LWLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +34%
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $25k
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 mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
To provide free medical care and free medications to low-income, uninsured residents of Iredell County, NC.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
To provide food and financial support for persons at risk of hunger and homelessness living in western Fairfax County Virginia.
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
To assist members of our community experiencing crisis with basic needs, in an atmosphere of compassion and respect.
Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.
Carolina Human Reinvestment mission is to "Identify and serve the need of the youth and their families in our community "
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
MemoryCares mission is three-fold: to provide specialized medical care to older adults with cognitive impairment; to support caregivers with education, counseling, and improved access to services; and to provide community education.
The mission of the Christian Community Caring Center, aka 4Cs Food Pantry, is to serve Christ by providing healthy, nutritious food to our neighbors in need in Eastern Pender County, NC.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nourish Up and the most unlike its peers is Reelin' for Research Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 27 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
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 Inc ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD FELLOWS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds All Souls Counseling Center ↗
- Who funds HopeWay Foundation ↗
- Who funds FEED MY LAMBS INC ↗
- Who funds HAMBLEN COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE & ACHIEVEMENT ↗
- Who funds SMITH MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- 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.
Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 organization 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.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% 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.