· Private foundation
Tom and Marion Braum Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| ST ANTHONY 'S PARISH | $1,300 |
| BPOE | $1,000 |
| THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| DOCTORS TO THE WORLD | $1,000 |
| ALASKA RADIO MISSION - KNOM | $750 |
| SERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $750 |
| THE SHACK | $500 |
| SUMMIT IN HONDURAS | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| MASS TIMES TRUST | $300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 3%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DTDOCTORS TO THE WORLD7× · 2019–2025 · $10k · revenue +224%
- BPBENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA5× · 2019–2023 · $1k · revenue +33%
- SISUMMIT IN HONDURAS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $1k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $1k
- ANASHEVILLE NC ELKS LODGEone grant, 2024 · $1k
- SJSaint John Instituteone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +5%
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.
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.
Conference
Expansion of the Gospel of Christ through training literature and digital teaching materials.
Consulting for Catholic organizations
To the advancement of Religion and Religious teachings and beliefs in the Roman Catholic faith to create a healing environment through retreats evangelism and educational training
Training pastors and leaders in christian faith
Religious
Religious
To spread the gospel through public speaking platforms and engagements
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 38 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds DOCTORS TO THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds THE SHACK ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT IN HONDURAS INC ↗
- Who funds MARRIAGE MISSIONARIES ↗
- Who funds JUDI'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Saint John Institute ↗
- Who funds Womens Resource Center in Durango ↗
- Who funds REAL PRESENCE RADIO ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tom and Marion Braum Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tom and Marion Braum Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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