· Private foundation
The Bruns Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLAZE SCHOOL | $380,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $308k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +122% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BSBLAZE SCHOOL3× · 2022–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +94% · 80% of their budget
- CFCHORDOMA FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2022 · $55k · revenue +122%
- MFMALIBU FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES2× · 2017–2018 · $14k · revenue +192%
Funded once
- BBABY2BABYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +463%
- TATHE ATLAS SOCIETY LTDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +166%
- TFTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIESone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +11%
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.
We transform the lives of orphaned and migrant children in Baja California, Mexico by resourcing and strengthening exceptional programs that serve these young people.
To support el ranchito de los ninos, inc.
To motivate and inspire our greater community to take action and generate positive change by partnering with visionary organizations in the areas of education, children, and families that are improving the world.
Lumos exists to light a path to a brighter future for these children. founded by the author j.k. rowling, we fight to tackle the cause of family separation and transform systems of care that take children away from thier families and…
An alternative outlet for children and young adults in counseling from abuse or emotional trauma with the use of rescued horses.
The brandeis school of san francisco inspires students to lead lives of learning and purpose. we provide a challenging academic environment and a welcoming, inclusive community, each deeply enriched by jewish thought, values, and…
To help children find a calling and change the world by properly preparing them for the challenges and opportunities that the future holds.
Ark us supports arks international programs, subject to the approval of ark us board of directors, while also exploring new programming ventures in the americas.
Ciudad de Angeles provides a safe and healthy home for orphaned, abandoned, abused and needy children living in Mexico.
All children shuold have access to a quality education that provides a broad range of experiences.students should actively participate in their own learning.teaching should be based on the learning styles of the students.integrating…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies and the most unlike its peers is Big Heart Ranch. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 28 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 BLAZE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BLAZE KIDS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CHORDOMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MALIBU FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds THE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD ↗
- Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds Arena Hall ↗
- Who funds VCTC Inc ↗
- Who funds UNLEASH PROSPERITY INC ↗
- Who funds VIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA JUAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds CHIMP CHARITABLE IMPACT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Champions Off the Field ↗
- Who funds Changing Our Perspective Inc ↗
- Who funds THE KINDNESS CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds BIG HEART RANCH ↗
- Who funds EL RANCHITO DE LOS NINOS INC ↗
- Who funds BAILEY BAIO ANGEL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Bruns 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.
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.