The John D. Brubaker Family Foundation

• The foundation's stated focus is youth education and empowerment, opportunities to engage with nature, and community connection among people of all ages, with Northern Illinois as its priority area, so a charity whose work fits those themes and that region is the kind of organisation it describes funding.
• It accepts no unsolicited requests and makes contributions only to preselected charitable organisations, so a cold application will not be considered; the filing does not say how an organisation becomes preselected.
• If you are preselected, about 8 in 10 of its grants fall between $5,000 and $325,000, and across the three most recent filings half of its 18 grants to organisations were $150,000 or less, so a request in the lower part of that range is the realistic size.
• In the most recent filing, 62% of its grant dollars to organisations went to organisations it had also funded earlier, so relationships appear to matter, and a newer organisation should weigh that before expecting a first grant.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• MindHaven NFP · General
  $500,0002025 tax year
• University of Illinois Foundation · General
  $325,0002025 tax year
• Rockford Promise · General
  $200,0002025 tax year
• Natural Land Institute · General
  $150,0002025 tax year
• Boys and Girls Club of Rockford · General
  $145,0002025 tax year
• Lorenzos House · General
  $5,0002025 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.