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Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$706k
Granted FY2024still arriving
258
Grants FY2024still arriving
28
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$382kPublic Benefit$310kHuman Services$284kInternational$211kHealth$183kEducation$171kHousing & Shelter$126kFood & Nutrition$126kOther$0
02FY2024 · 258 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k242 grants · $354k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $272k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$1,000
Median grant
28
States reached
$9.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Concordia University - Ann Arbor$10,000
American Center for Law & Justice$10,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Camp Kesem: $516 → 14%THE DIAPER ALLIANCE: $500 → 9%ABLELIGHT: $1k → 8%Charity Navigator: $500 → 7%Mercy Chefs: $3k → 20%A Kid Again: $1k → 9%LUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES: $1k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $300 → 7%Lutheran Church Charities: $1k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $250 → 7%ABLELIGHT: $1k → 8%GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND: $1k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%Gift of Adoption Fund: $1k → 14%LUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES: $1k → 14%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $50 → 11%LUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES: $1k → 14%Crossover Downtown Outreach Ministr: $2k → 16%CROSSOVER DOWNTOWN OUTREACH MINISTR: $2k → 16%CROSSOVER DOWNTOWN OUTREACH MINISTR: $2k → 16%CROSSOVER DOWNTOWN OUTREACH MINISTR: $2k → 16%WHALEY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1k → 16%Whaley Children's Center: $1k → 16%REGION VII AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $2k → 14%WHALEY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $500 → 16%Region VII Area Agency on Aging: $2k → 14%WHALEY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $500 → 16%RIVER JORDAN INC: $500 → 14%RIVER JORDAN INC: $500 → 14%RIVER JORDAN INC: $500 → 14%River Jordan Inc: $500 → 14%FRANKLIN AVENUE MISSION: $50 → 16%SANTA'S CUPBOARD: $2k → 14%Santa's Cupboard: $2k → 14%SANTA'S CUPBOARD: $1k → 14%SANTA'S CUPBOARD: $1k → 14%HIS Restoration Ministries: $1k → 18%HIS RESTORATION MINISTRIES: $1k → 18%UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: $5k → 18%UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: $3k → 18%Underground Railroad: $3k → 18%UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: $3k → 18%UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: $3k → 18%WELLSPRING LUTHERAN SERVICES: $2k → 18%Ennis Center for Children Inc: $500 → 18%ENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $300 → 18%ENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $100 → 18%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

ME
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
MS
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 241 repeat orgs$122k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

241
75

Total granted

$2.1M
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+21%

Still filing today

39%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesReligionEducationArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • LW
    LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $106k · revenue +28%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $73k · revenue +83%
  • HH
    HIDDEN HARVEST
    4× · 2021–2024 · $23k · revenue +199%

Funded once

  • BG
    BETHANY GLOBAL UNIVERSITY (BETHANY
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • TW
    TEAM WESTERN KENTUCKY TORNADO RELIE
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • TR
    TEAM RUBICON - DISASTER RESPONSE
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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.

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Trinity Health - Michigan

We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.

Health
2
Organ Procurement Agency of Michigan

We honor life through donation.

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3
Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health
4
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
5
Mymichigan Medical Group

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
6
Mymichigan Medical Center Saginaw

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
7
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
8
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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9
Memorial Healthcare Foundation

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.

Education
10
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
11
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County

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…

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12
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan; 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.
04the grantee network

144 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. 144 of the 364 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)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
139/144
Grantees still filing
97/144
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St Lorenz General Budget Fund: $300,000 · OtherSt Lorenz General Budget FundSALVATION ARMY: $125,735 · OtherSALVATION ARMYIndividual grant recipient: $67,000 · OtherLCMS: $52,500 · OtherSt Lorenz Lutheran Church: $52,275 · Other+142 more: $938,804 · Other+142 moreLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $105,750 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $5,000 · International+4 more: $9,500 · InternationalTHOMAS MORE LAW CENTER: $32,500 · Human ServicesHIDDEN HARVEST: $22,695 · Human ServicesUNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC: $17,120 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,860 · Human ServicesCROSSOVER OUTREACH: $8,000 · Human ServicesSANTA'S CUPBOARD: $5,000 · Human Services+10 more: $27,500 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $72,600 · ReligionINTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA: $10,760 · ReligionAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC: $8,000 · ReligionPASTORAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $4,800 · ReligionWE RAISE FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Religion+3 more: $7,000 · ReligionCROSSROADS COUNSELING MINISTRIES: $30,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $11,300 · HealthCOVENANT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $10,766 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $8,000 · HealthDOCTORS CARE: $6,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $5,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $3,750 · Health+9 more: $22,650 · HealthRescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan: $73,450 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $7,000 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER OF FLINT INC: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterEMMAUS HOUSE OF SAGINAW INC: $4,000 · Housing & ShelterFood Bank of Eastern Michigan: $50,474 · Food & NutritionI Support the 1 Food Pantry for Veteran: $21,915 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,536,314International$125,250Human Services$123,675Religion$107,160Health$97,466Housing & Shelter$90,450Food & Nutrition$72,389

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $105,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan: $73,450 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $72,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of Eastern Michigan: $50,474 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS MORE LAW CENTER: $32,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCROSSROADS COUNSELING MINISTRIES: $30,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHIDDEN HARVEST: $22,695 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetI Support the 1 Food Pantry for Veteran: $21,915 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetCarriage Town Ministries: $20,950 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC: $17,120 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEast Side Soup Kitchen: $12,100 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $11,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRANKENMUTH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $11,100 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,860 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $10,766 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA: $10,760 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKENMUTH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $9,899 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMICHIGAN HEROES MUSEUM: $9,800 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSOVER OUTREACH: $8,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHEART OF SAGINAW: $7,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION POST 150: $7,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $7,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetREAD Association of Saginaw County: $6,350 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER OF FLINT INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDOCTORS CARE: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSaginaw Community Foundation: $5,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN BRAILLE WORKERS INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA'S CUPBOARD: $5,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAVENPORT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAGINAW FUTURE INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASTORAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $4,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRANKENMUTH WOMEN'S CLUB: $4,250 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetSAGINAW CHORAL SOCIETY INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES FUND: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWE RAISE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREGION VII AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $4,000 over 2y, 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 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 ↗

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.

Saginaw Community Fou…Consumers Energy Foun…Wm McNally Family Fou…Bierlein Companies Fo…Allen E & Marie A Nic…Wickson-Link Memorial…Yeo & Yeo FoundationCharles Stewart Mott …Bay Area Community Fo…Frank N Andersen Foun…Harvey Randall Wickes…Boutell Memorial Fund
Saginaw Community FoundationMI57.6× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 364 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

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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