· Private foundation
Ulla & Bertil Brunk Foundation Inc
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| THE WALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC | $5,000 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS APFV INC | $5,000 |
| GENEVA LAKES FAMILY YMCA | $2,500 |
| VIP SERVICES INC | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 31% of your 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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +4% 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- SASWEDISH AMERICAN MUSEUM ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO7× · 2018–2024 · $143k · revenue +21%
LAKE GENEVA FRESH AIR ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $85k · revenue +35%
OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC7× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +146%
Funded once
- GWGEORGE WILLIAMS COLLEGE OF AURORA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
Northwestern Universityone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +4%
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.
The lake area free clinic is the medical and dental home to low-income residents of waukesha county. the mission is to provide high-quality comprehensive health care to those in need.
St. Cloud Area Family YMCA's mission is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that promote healthy lifestyles, strong families and positive youth development to build healthy spirit, mind and body for all, regardless…
The scenic rivers ymca is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to bringing the community together and the development of the total individual in mind, body and spirit. we strive to strengthen kids, families, individuals and…
Our mission is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. The Y works side-by-side with our neighbors to address critical community needs that help those we serve.
The ymca of wabash valley is a charitable nonprofit human service organization that includes children, teens, women and men, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, or national origin. the mission of the ymca is "to…
The lafayette family ymca is a volunteer led public charity that includes men, women, and children of all ages, abilities, incomes, races,and religions. our mission is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build…
Our mission is to provide diapers, equipping families with a necessary tool to increase their mental and physical health and wellbeing. a diaper can change a life. diaper train is committed to a future where every family in wake county has…
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. activities include child care; youth development through a variety of youth sports, leadership programs and special needs…
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…
The winona family ymca is a charitable, community service organization that includes men, women and children of all ages, abilities, incomes, races and religions. we are dedicated to building strong kids, strong families and strong…
The mission of the wapakoneta family ymca is: to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. the wapakoneta family ymca is a charitable, community social-service organization…
The duluth area family ymca is dedicated to putting the principles of caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Geneva Lakes Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vip Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 SWEDISH AMERICAN MUSEUM ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds LAKE GENEVA FRESH AIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds TREE HOUSE CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VIP SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS APFV INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds NEVER SAY NEVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKES FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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: Kunes Family Foundation · United Way of Walworth County · Kikkoman Foods Foundation Inc · Keefe Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Tom & Donna Neshek Family Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · 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 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.
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.
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