The Charles E & Edna T Brundage Char
Iselin, NJ · EIN 22-6050185. Reported 168 grants totalling $881,000 to 62 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Charles E & Edna T Brundage Char did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $3,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $6,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $30,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newark Museum of Art | Newark, NJ | $90,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| New Jersey Symphony Orchestra | Newark, NJ | $84,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wilderness Inquiry | St Paul, MN | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hope for Haiti | Naples, FL | $52,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Enfield Shaker Museum | Enfield, NH | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Place of Greater Rochester Inc | Rochester, NY | $31,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mascoma Valley Preservation | Grafton, NH | $30,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Newark Museum | Newark, NJ | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Planned Parenthood Southeast | Atlanta, GA | $26,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Canaan Town Library | Canaan, NH | $24,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood of Greater New Jersey Inc | Morristown, NJ | $21,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Arts Etc | Johns Island, SC | $21,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Colby Sawyer College | New London, NH | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Generation Hope | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Curepsp | New York, NY | $19,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Blake School | Hopkins, MN | $17,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New Jersey Conservation Foundation | Far Hills, NJ | $16,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Upper Valley Land Trust | Hanover, NH | $16,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Historical Society of Old Randolph | Randolph, NJ | $14,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| New Jersey Seeds | Newark, NJ | $14,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Food Bank of New Jersey | Hillside, NJ | $13,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Vermont Studio Center | Johnson, VT | $13,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Faith's Lodge | Plymouth, MN | $12,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Greater Newark Holiday Fund | Newark, NJ | $12,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New Hampshire Public Radio | Concord, NH | $11,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Raptor Trust | Millington, NJ | $11,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lowcountry Food Bank | Charleston, SC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mascoma Community Health Center | Canaan, NH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mascoma Community Healthcare Inc | Canaan, NH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Vermont Public Radio | Colchester, VT | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wellfleet Historical Society & Museum | Wellfleet, MA | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Global Development Group USA Inc | Mitchell, IN | $7,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Low Country Marine Mammal Network | North Charleston, SC | $7,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Vermont Center for Ecostudies | Norwich, VT | $7,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Etv Endowment of South Carolina | Spartanburg, SC | $7,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Homecare & Hospice Association of Nj | Cranford, NJ | $6,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Kiawah Cares Foundation | Kiawah Island, SC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Grafton Library | Grafton, NH | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lancaster County Food Hub | Lancaster, PA | $5,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Town of Canaan Meeting House Preservation | Canaan, NH | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Als Tdi Therapy Institute | Watertown, MA | $4,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Dartmouth College - Ski Patrol | Hanover, NH | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends of Canaan Village Inc | Canaan, NH | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends of Northern Rail Trail | New London, NH | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Zoological Society of New Jersey | West Orange, NJ | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Vermont Institute of Natural Science | Quechee, VT | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Antioch University | Keene, NH | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Canaan Historical Society | Canaan, NH | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kiawah Island Community Association | Kiawah Island, SC | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mascoma Music Boosters | Grafton, NH | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Neo Philanthropy | New York, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| North Branch Nature Center | Montpelier, VT | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Second Wind Foundation | White River Junction, VT | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Global Development Group USA Inc | Reliance, TN | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Homecare & Hospice Assoc of Nj | Cranford, NJ | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trumball Hall Troupe | Wentworth, NH | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Trumbull Hall Troupe | Wentworth, NH | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Lancaster County Council of Churches | Lancaster, PA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Black Inventors Hall of Fame | Wharton, NJ | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kiawah Women's Foundation | Johns Island, SC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lebanon Project Graduation | Lebanon, NH | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mascoma Valley Regional High School | Canaan, NH | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
41 of 62 (66%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 84%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Newark Museum of Art
General Use: $20,000Endowment Fund: $10,000 - New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
General Use and Operating Fund - Wilderness Inquiry
General Use: $10,000Canoe Mobile Program: $5,000 - Historical Society of Old Randolph
For the maintenance and update of exhibits of The Randolph Museum - Curepsp
General Use - Early-Stage Research - The Raptor Trust
General Use, In memory of William Cater Jr.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 114 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 40 | $217,000 | $3,250 |
| 2022 | 43 | $219,000 | $3,000 |
| 2023 | 40 | $211,500 | $4,000 |
| 2024 | 45 | $233,500 | $4,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 36% of this one's giving went to organizations in New Jersey. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New Jersey.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Charles E & Edna T Brundage Char's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 111 Wood Avenue South 420, Iselin, NJ, 08830. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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