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The Brunner Foundation co Larry LeGrand

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Philanthropy$4.4MArts & Culture$100kHealth$61kReligion$41kEducation$40kHuman Services$35kSocial Science$25kCrime & Legal$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,181,809
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARLES SCHWAB DONOR ADVISED FUND$1,181,809
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN SOCIETY: $20k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.4M · 3 repeat orgs$294k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
22

Total granted

$4.4M
$294k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+51%

Still filing today

33%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalReligionOther

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

  • CS
    CHARLES SCHWAB DONOR ADVISED FUND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.4M
  • RS
    ROSSMAN SCHOOL
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +49%
  • GE
    GRACE EVANGELICAL MINISTRIES
    5× · 2017–2021 · $14k

Funded once

  • MC
    MARINE CORP HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • LV
    LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +294%
  • BB
    BOX BACK PARKINSONS
    one grant, 2021 · $25k

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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Fdd Action

FDD Action is a non-profit, non-partisan 504(c)4 organization established to advocate for effective policies to promote U.S. National Security and defend free nations.

Community Improvement
2
Semper Fi Society of St Louis

The mission of the organization is to bring together Marines and various Marine organizations in the St. Louis area.

Human Services
3
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
4
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
5
Veterans Navigation Network

Transition for service members.

Health
6
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
7
Financial Planning Ministry

Financial planning ministry, inc. (fpm) is a not-for-profit organization devoted to assisting in the performance of the functions of christian churches by serving their financial needs.

Health
8
Presbyterian Medical Services

Presbyterian medical services designs and delivers quality, integrated health, education, and human services in response to identified community needs of the multicultural people of the southwest.

Health
9
Warrior Built Foundation Inc

Organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes for combat veterans to provide motivation, camaraderie, and to offer a release to cope with similar difficulties in a positive and therapeutic way. Providing safe, fun, and…

Health
10
Forum on the Arms Trade Inc

The Forum connects civil society experts to strengthen public efforts on arms transfers, security, and weapons issues, offering a hub for expertise, analysis, and resources.

International
11
The Mission Continues

We connect military veterans with opportunities to continue their service and leadership in under-resourced communities.

Employment
12
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Louisiana

To serve and support Veterans, the military, and communities in Louisiana. To advocate on behalf of all Veterans

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Focus Marines Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Freedom Center of Missouri. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHARLES SCHWAB DONOR ADVISED FUND — $4,407,206 · OtherCHARLES SCHWAB DONOR ADVISED FUND+14 more — $228,041 · OtherCLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE — $15,000 · EducationDallas Theological Seminary — $7,500 · EducationROCK STEADY BOXING INC — $5,000 · EducationMISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthCharlie 22 Outdoors — $1,100 · HealthGATEWAY TO HOPE — $1,000 · HealthThe Joshua Chamberlain Society — $20,000 · Human ServicesFOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM CENTER OF MISSOURI — $15,000 · Crime & LegalVISION BEYOND BORDERS INC — $5,000 · Religion
Other$4,635,247Education$27,500Health$27,100Human Services$25,000Crime & Legal$15,000Religion$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Joshua Chamberlain Society — $20,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetROSSMAN SCHOOL — $19,600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFREEDOM CENTER OF MISSOURI — $15,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetCLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE — $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDallas Theological Seminary — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVISION BEYOND BORDERS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROCK STEADY BOXING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCharlie 22 Outdoors — $1,100 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGATEWAY TO HOPE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Brunner Foundation co Larry LeGrand 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Brunner Foundation co Larry LeGrand?

    Find your warmest path to The Brunner Foundation co Larry LeGrand through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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