Does The Charles E & Edna T Brundage Char Sci & Wildlife Cons Fdn c/o MFB CPAs accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

The Charles E & Edna T Brundage Char Sci & Wildlife Cons Fdn c/o MFB CPAs

The Charles E & Edna T Brundage Char Sci & Wildlife Cons Fdn c/o MFB CPAs at a glance

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The Charles E & Edna T Brundage Char Sci & Wildlife Cons Fdn c/o MFB CPAs

Q: What does The Charles E & Edna T Brundage Char Sci & Wildlife Cons Fdn c/o MFB CPAs fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Environment (12%), Health (12%).

Q: Who are The Charles E & Edna T Brundage Char Sci & Wildlife Cons Fdn c/o MFB CPAs's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Newark Museum Association ($120k), New Jersey Symphony Orchestra ($107k), Wilderness Inquiry Inc ($91k).

Q: Does The Charles E & Edna T Brundage Char Sci & Wildlife Cons Fdn c/o MFB CPAs fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as The Charles E & Edna T Brundage Char Sci & Wildlife Cons Fdn c/o MFB CPAs?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lucy & Eleanor S Upton Charitable Foundation c/o Mandel Fekete & Bloom, The Vermont Community Foundation, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$240k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$30k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$529kEnvironment$159kHealth$154kEducation$142kInternational$87kHuman Services$86kFood & Nutrition$54kAnimals$35kOther$0

02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k35 grants · $121k
$10k–50k8 grants · $119k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Newark Museum of Art	$30,000
Individual grant recipient	$20,000
Wilderness Inquiry	$16,000
Lowcountry Food Bank	$12,500
Community Place of Greater Rochester Inc	$10,500
Enfield Shaker Museum	$10,000
Mascoma Valley Preservation	$10,000
Hope for Haiti	$10,000
Planned Parenthood Southeast	$7,500
CurePSP	$6,500
Arts Etc	$6,000
Community Food Bank of New Jersey	$6,000
Kiawah Cares Foundation	$6,000
Mascoma Royals Athletic Boosters	$6,000
Canaan Town Library	$6,000

02The need

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 (FY20–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.3M · 51 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

Still filing today

76%

14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
4× · 2022–2025 · $120k · revenue +85%
NJ
NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
5× · 2020–2024 · $107k · revenue ×23
WI
WILDERNESS INQUIRY INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $91k · revenue +221%

Funded once

FO
Friends of Grafton Library
one grant, 2023 · $5k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2024 · $3k
AU
Antioch University
one grant, 2023 · $3k

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.

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment

Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture

Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation

Northeast wilderness trust is a regional land trust working to preserve and restore forever-wild landscapes for nature and people in new york, vermont, new hampshire, maine, massachusetts and connecticut.

Environment

Vermont Public Co

Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.

Arts & Culture

Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment

Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment

The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services

Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve

The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.

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Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy

The Forest Park Conservancy

To protect and restore the ecological health of forest park and marquam nature park, maintain and enhance their extensive trails networks, promote equitable access, and inspire diverse community appreciation and stewardship of these iconic…

Environment

Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Jersey Seeds Inc; the most unlike its peers is Generation Hope. 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

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 61 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

41/42

Grantees still filing

35/42

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$517,000Arts & Culture$292,000Environment$159,000Education$99,000International$86,500Health$84,000Human Services$74,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

The Lucy & Eleanor S Upton Charitable Foundation c/o Mandel Fekete & BloomNJ26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lucy & Eleanor S Upton Charitable Foundation c/o Mandel Fekete & Bloom · The Vermont Community Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Crowell Family Foundation 7522-Xxxxxx00058 · Sorg-Vogt Charitable Foundation Trust 3844 · Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc · Oakland Foundation Inc · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Mascoma Bank Foundation · Turrell Fund · Investors Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson 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 Charles E & Edna T Brundage Char Sci & Wildlife Cons Fdn c/o MFB CPAs funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles E & Edna T Brundage Char Sci & Wildlife Cons Fdn c/o MFB CPAs. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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.

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