· Private foundation
Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k242 grants · $354k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $272k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Lorenz General Budget Fund | $80,000 |
| Salvation Army | $32,130 |
| Rescue Mission of Saginaw | $28,010 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $27,250 |
| LCMS | $27,000 |
| Lutheran World Relief | $25,150 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,500 |
| St Lorenz Lutheran Church | $19,125 |
| Food Bank of Eastern Michigan | $17,575 |
| Wellspring Lutheran Foundation | $15,000 |
| Concordia Theological Seminary St | $10,500 |
| Lutheran Hour Ministries | $10,000 |
| Cross Roads Counseling Ministries | $10,000 |
| American Center for Law & Justice | $10,000 |
| Concordia University - Ann Arbor | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +20% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
241 repeat relationships — 212 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 40 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- LWLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC4× · 2021–2024 · $106k · revenue +28%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE4× · 2021–2024 · $73k · revenue +83%
- HHHIDDEN HARVEST4× · 2021–2024 · $23k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- TMTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FORone grant, 2023 · $5k
- TWTEAM WESTERN KENTUCKY TORNADO RELIEone grant, 2021 · $5k
- BGBETHANY GLOBAL UNIVERSITY (BETHANYone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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We honor life through donation.
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Creating healthy communities - together
Creating healthy communities - together
Creating healthy communities - together
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Through fund development, we serve our community by assisting memorial healthcare achieve its mission to promote health and provide quality compassionate healthcare in the shiawassee region.
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Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan and the most unlike its peers is PULSE3 Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
143 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. 143 of the 364 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS COUNSELING MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN HARVEST ↗
- Who funds I Support the 1 Food Pantry for Veteran ↗
- Who funds Carriage Town Ministries ↗
- Who funds UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds East Side Soup Kitchen ↗
- Who funds TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKENMUTH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA ↗
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: Saginaw Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Yeo & Yeo Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Bay Area Community Foundation · Frank N Andersen Foundation · Harvey Randall Wickes Foundation · Boutell Memorial Fund
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 Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation 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.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
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.