Kit Brunner, CAP® is a family advisor and the founder of Queen City Impact.
Queen City Impact (QCI) works with families to help them see wealth as an opportunity, a tool for clarifying purpose and narrating the impact of your life.
QCI provides three primary areas of family advising services, philanthropy stewardship, governance facilitation, and legacy development.
We guide families through a journey of charitable planning, family governance, and legacy stewardship, delivering a unique client experience that deepens trust, strengthens loyalty, and generates measurable human and philanthropic impact.
Kit Brunner, CAP®
Founder, CEO
Kit founded QCI in September 2023 with a belief that philanthropy is most impactful when it is personalized, relationship-driven, and family-based. That belief soon became a vision that culminated in a new approach to family advising that uses charitable planning, family governance, and legacy building tools and services.
QCI’s approach to family advising is to facilitate a deeper appreciation and understanding of the different types of family wealth and the opportunities they bring with the client in collaboration with other professional advisors. We provide discernment-based advisory services, prioritizing listening, deep discovery, and asking questions without looking for a quick solution.
Before QCI, Kit spent over a decade working with non-profit organizations of all sizes in Denver, Washington, D.C., Cincinnati, as well as internationally.
Born and raised in Cincinnati, he holds a master’s degree in international human rights from the University of Denver Josef Korbel School of International Studies (2016) and a double B.A. in History and Anthropology from Centre College (2011). Kit is a certified Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy from the American College of Financial Services and certified 21/64 family facilitator.
Kit is a board member at UpSpring, the Ken Anderson Alliance, and the Council on Child Abuse, as well as a committee member at Talbert House’s Fatherhood Project.