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The Kelly and Sam Bronfman Family Foundation (Aka the Sam & Kelly Bronfma) at a glance

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The Kelly and Sam Bronfman Family Foundation (Aka the Sam & Kelly Bronfma)

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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$3.4MEducation$765kHealth$735kEnvironment$485kYouth Development$87kArts & Culture$78kPublic Benefit$70kReligion$63kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $14
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$1,000,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND SAMUEL BRONFMAN II DONOR ADVISED FUND$1,000,000
FROM PASS-THROUGH ENTITIES$14
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $1k → 7%MY NEW RED SHOES: $500 → 7%CHILD AND FAMILY RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE: $500 → 7%CHILD AND FAMILY RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE: $500 → 7%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $500 → 14%CHILD AND FAMILY RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE: $500 → 7%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $500 → 14%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

WA
IL
NY
MA
CA
UT
CO
VA
DC
GA
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 29 repeat orgs$793k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
32

Total granted

$5.2M
$793k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+12%

Still filing today

59%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationHealthHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TC
    THE COLORADO COLLEGE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $488k · revenue +3%
  • EV
    EAGLE VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH
    3× · 2020–2022 · $345k · revenue +23%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $120k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • SC
    SCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $273k
  • VH
    VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +97%
  • AC
    ACCELERATE CHANGE INCMIND
    one grant, 2022 · $55k
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
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
2
Sonoma Botanical Garden
—
3
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
4
Pomona College

Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…

Education
5
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
7
Swan Valley Connections

Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.

Environment
8
Nature Collective

Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…

Environment
9
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
10
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…

Community Improvement
11
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
12
California Wildlife Foundation

The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vail Health Services Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Friends of the Canadian Centre for Architecture. 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

33 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. 33 of the 62 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
22/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND SAMUEL BRONFMAN II DONOR ADVISED FUND: $3,037,724 · OtherSCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND SAMUEL BRONFMAN II DONOR ADVISED FUNDSCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND: $273,213 · OtherSCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $245,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+29 more: $437,913 · Other+29 moreTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $488,024 · EducationTHE COLORADO C…TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $120,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DE…Williams College: $90,000 · EducationWilliams Colle…PUBLICOLOR INC: $60,000 · EducationPUBLICOLOR INC+3 more: $21,500 · EducationEAGLE VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH: $345,000 · HealthEAGLE VALLEY …VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthVAIL HEALTH S…SJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · HealthSJOGREN'S FOU…STANFORD HEALTH CARE: $70,000 · HealthSTANFORD HEAL…+2 more: $7,500 · HealthEAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST: $353,500 · EnvironmentEAGLE VAL…Betty Ford Alpine Gardens: $47,000 · EnvironmentBetty For…Ten Strands: $30,000 · EnvironmentTen Stran…Save The Bay: $22,000 · Environment+6 more: $31,500 · Environment+6 morePARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyRACHEL'S NETWORK INC: $21,500 · Public Safety & DisasterCHILD AND FAMILY RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE: $1,500 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Human ServicesPENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $1,000 · Human ServicesMBOLDEN CHANGE: $500 · Human ServicesCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $3,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,993,850Education$779,524Health$732,500Environment$484,000Philanthropy$25,000Public Safety & Disaster$21,500Human Services$4,000Recreation & Sports$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $488,024 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST: $353,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH: $345,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetWilliams College: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTANFORD HEALTH CARE: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLICOLOR INC: $60,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBetty Ford Alpine Gardens: $47,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE: $40,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetTen Strands: $30,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSave The Bay: $22,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRACHEL'S NETWORK INC: $21,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEnvironmental Volunteers Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE CNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetVail Symposium: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE PLUMPJACK FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSEMPERVIRENS FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POLG FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWoodside-Atherton Garden Club: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMBOLDEN CHANGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds EAGLE VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds SJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds STANFORD HEALTH CARE ↗
  • Who funds PUBLICOLOR INC ↗
  • Who funds Betty Ford Alpine Gardens ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE ↗
  • Who funds Ten Strands ↗
  • Who funds PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Save The Bay ↗
  • Who funds RACHEL'S NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Environmental Volunteers Inc ↗
  • Who funds GREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE CNTY ↗
  • Who funds Vail Symposium ↗
  • Who funds Education Outside ↗
  • Who funds THE PLUMPJACK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SEMPERVIRENS FUND ↗

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.

Gordon E and Betty I …Jewish Community Fede…The Winmax Foundation…Silicon Valley Commun…Colorado Gives Founda…The San Francisco Fou…Oklahoma City Communi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Joyce & Paul Kras…Kelton Family Foundat…The Precourt Foundati…Frechette Family Foun…
Gordon E and Betty I Moore FoundationCA16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Winmax Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Joyce & Paul Krasnow Charitable Foundation · Kelton Family Foundation · The Precourt Foundation · Frechette Family 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 Kelly and Sam Bronfman Family Foundation (Aka the Sam & Kelly Bronfma) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kelly and Sam Bronfman Family Foundation (Aka the Sam & Kelly Bronfma). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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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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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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