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· Private foundation
ULLA & BERTIL BRUNK FOUNDATION INC
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$68k
Granted FY2024
8
Grants
2
Communities
$23k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of ULLA & BERTIL BRUNK FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
never
2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$8,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
- SWEDISH AMERICAN MUSEUM$22,500
- HOLIDAY HOME CAMP$12,500
- OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC$10,000
- TREE HOUSE CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER INC$8,000
- NEW BEGINNINGS APFV INC$5,000
- THE WALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC$5,000
- GENEVA LAKES FAMILY YMCA$2,500
- VIP SERVICES INC$2,500
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 12%. 31% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$414k · 7 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +352% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
7
4
Total granted
$414k
$65k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+352%
+33%
Still filing today
57%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Crime & LegalHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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
OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC7× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +177%- THTREE HOUSE CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $53k · revenue +352%
- VSVIP SERVICES INC7× · 2018–2024 · $31k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- GWGEORGE WILLIAMS COLLEGE OF AURORA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $50k
- CHCOVENANT HARBORone grant, 2020 · $5k
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +33%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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West Fort Worth Center of Hope Inc
West fort worth center of hope is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization purposed to help families in our community thrive. by building trusting relationships, we help struggling families find stability. once achieved, we move forward with…
Religion
2
The Tree House Inc
The organization provides services related to child abuse treatment and prevention. the organization provides treatment for affected individuals and prevention and training for victims and their families through child services, victim's…
Crime & Legal
3
Open Arms Care Foundation
To provide funding to expand non-medicaid allowable services and improve the quality of life for intellectually and developmentally disabled individuals under the care of open arms corporation.
Housing & Shelter
4
Easter Seals - Central Texas Inc
Our mission is to change the way the world defines and views disabilities.
Health
5
First Step Family Violence Intserv
To promote safety to victims of violence through education, counseling, and advocacy and shelter when needed to any person suffering the effects of family violence and/or sexual assault. to promote non-violent behavior by educating the…
Crime & Legal
6
Winston Prouty Center for Child and Fami
To provide inclusive education and family support to promote the success of children and families.
Education
7
Easter Seals North Texas
We help advance the independence of individuals with disabilities & other special needs.
Health
8
Whitworth University
Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars. recognized as one of the top regional colleges and…
Education
9
Alpha Family Center of Newaygo
Alpha family center is a life-affirming, faith-based pregnancy resource center serving those who find themselves in an unplanned pregnancy, traumatized by abortion and other sexual trauma, or struggling to parent. the services of alpha…
Human Services
10
Family Violence Prevention Inc
Temporary shelter to victims of domestic violence and/or sexual assault.
Human Services
11
Optimist Club of Fort Worth Youth Fund Inc
To improve the fort worth community by providing athletics, scholarships, and mentoring programs to under-served & underprivileged youth. these programs strive to keep youth in school, develop lifelong skills, and help them grow into…
Recreation & Sports
12
Watkins Vital Care Program
Watkins vital care program is an adult day program for adults with autism and other disabilities that seeks to ensure that each day is filled with joy, purpose, and dignity. watkins vital care program provides life skills training,…
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Beginnings Apfv Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northwestern University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$333,977Health$70,000Crime & Legal$58,000Food & Nutrition$12,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Youth Development$5,000Philanthropy$2,500
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 OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds TREE HOUSE CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VIP SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS APFV INC ↗
- Who funds NEVER SAY NEVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKES FAMILY YMCA ↗
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.
United Way of Walworth CountyWI16× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: United Way of Walworth County · Kikkoman Foods Foundation Inc · Kunes Family Foundation · Keefe Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · 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 organisation ULLA & BERTIL BRUNK FOUNDATION INC 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GENEVA LAKES FAMILY YMCA.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 930788441 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on GENEVA LAKES FAMILY YMCA, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Ulla & Bertil Brunk Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Ulla & Bertil Brunk Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines