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The Brunner Foundation co Larry LeGrand at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WY
IN
MO
VA
TN
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
  • BB
    BOX BACK PARKINSONS
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • LV
    LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +294%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Focus Marines Foundation; 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 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. 13 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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.

St Louis Community Fo…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Brunner Foundation co Larry LeGrand funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brunner Foundation co Larry LeGrand. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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