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Angelo and Ann Bruno Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$310k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
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 2025.

Religion$713kEducation$672kPhilanthropy$352kHealth$138kYouth Development$77kHuman Services$45kEnvironment$35kHousing & Shelter$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 98% of reported assets are held in Stock At Nbc Securities.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Alabama$100,000
Saint Rose Academy$50,000
Our Lady of Sorrows$35,000
United Way$35,000
Catholic Charities$35,000
Saban Center Foundation$10,000
Consolata Missionary Sisters$5,000
Exchange Club$5,000
Birmingham Botanical Gardens$5,000
Her Choice Birmingham$5,000
The Child Abuse Prevention Center$4,000
Junior Achievement$3,750
Grace House Ministries$2,500
Brother Bryan Mission$2,500
The Mike Slive Foundation$2,500
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 (FY17–25, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%Big Oak Ranch: $5k → 18%Grace House Ministries: $3k → 16%Grace House Ministries: $3k → 16%YMCA of Greater Birmingham: $10k → 16%Brother Bryan Mission: $3k → 16%First Light Shelter: $3k → 16%Brother Bryan Mission: $3k → 16%Brother Bryan Mission: $3k → 16%Brother Bryan Mission: $3k → 16%First Light Shelter: $3k → 16%Brother Bryan Mission: $3k → 16%First Light Shelter: $3k → 16%Brother Bryan Mission: $3k → 16%First Light Shelter: $3k → 16%Brother Bryan Mission: $3k → 16%First Light Shelter: $3k → 16%First Light Shelter: $3k → 16%Brother Bryan Mission: $3k → 16%First Light: $2k → 16%First Light: $2k → 16%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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 30 repeat orgs$210k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +93% since the first grant, against +47% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
19

Total granted

$1.9M
$203k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%
+47%

Still filing today

40%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesReligionAnimalsPhilanthropyScience & TechOther
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

  • UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +74%
  • SC
    SABAN CENTER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +290%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • AG
    AG Gaston Boys & Girls
    one grant, 2020 · $77k
  • AS
    Ascension St Vincents
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • BM
    BIGTIME MINISTRIESgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $24k · revenue +74%
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.

1
Habitat for Humanity of Baldwin County Inc

Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.

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2
Community Kitchens of Birmingham

Assistance to homeless and needy persons.

Food & Nutrition
3
Greater Birmingham Ministries

To serve people, build community, pursue justice.

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4
Goodwill Industries of Central Alabama

Goodwill industries provides training and employment for handicapped persons.

Employment
5
Alabama Partnership for Children

To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.

Education
6
Baptist Community Health Services Inc

Motivated by the love and compassion of christ and in keeping with our baptist heritage, bchs provides quality primary healthcare and behavioral healthcare to individuals in medically underserved communities.

Health
7
Community Food Bank of Central Alabama

To feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.

Food & Nutrition
8
Legal Aid Society of Birmingham

The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.

Crime & Legal
9
Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Ala

To help find a cure for breast cancer by funding promising breast cancer research in alabama and to raise community awareness and funding for that research.

Health
10
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Birmingham Inc

Match adult volunteers with at-risk children. To promote a friendship which will build confidence and self-esteem in order to promote improved decision-making and reduce problems into adulthood.

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11
Alabama Regional Medical Services

To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers

Health
12
Food Bank of East Alabama Inc

To feed the needy

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stair of Birmingham; the most unlike its peers is Magic City Harvest Inc. 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

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 51 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
17/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Alabama: $500,000 · OtherUniversity of AlabamaOur Lady of Sorrows: $276,000 · OtherOur Lady of SorrowsCatholic Charities: $265,000 · OtherCatholic CharitiesSaint Rose Academy: $100,000 · OtherSaint Rose AcademyAG Gaston Boys & Girls: $77,480 · OtherMegan Montgomery Foundation: $62,000 · Other+30 more: $368,183 · Other+30 moreUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $265,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $37,500 · HealthHer Choice Birmingham Inc: $25,000 · HealthTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS: $12,500 · HealthUNITED ABILITY INC: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthBROTHER BRYAN MISSION: $20,000 · Human ServicesFIRST LIGHT INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesBIG OAK RANCH INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesGRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSABAN CENTER FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Public BenefitBIGTIME MINISTRIES: $24,000 · ReligionETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $2,500 · ReligionThe Mike Slive Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research: $17,500 · Science & Tech
Other$1,648,663Philanthropy$265,000Health$81,000Human Services$58,000Public Benefit$40,000Religion$26,500Science & Tech$17,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $265,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSABAN CENTER FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $37,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHer Choice Birmingham Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBIGTIME MINISTRIES: $24,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetBROTHER BRYAN MISSION: $20,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFIRST LIGHT INC: $18,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Mike Slive Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research: $17,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS: $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG OAK RANCH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED ABILITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SOUP BOWL INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMAGIC CITY HARVEST INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHAND IN PAW INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTAIR OF BIRMINGHAM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds SABAN CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Her Choice Birmingham Inc ↗
  • Who funds BIGTIME MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds BROTHER BRYAN MISSION ↗
  • Who funds FIRST LIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds The Mike Slive Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research ↗
  • Who funds THE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED ABILITY INC ↗
  • Who funds GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗

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.

Alabama Power Foundation IncAL31.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Protective Life Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · United Way of Central Alabama Inc · Debardeleben Foundation Inc · Robert R Meyer Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation

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 Angelo and Ann Bruno Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Angelo and Ann Bruno Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Angelo and Ann Bruno Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Angelo and Ann Bruno Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 51 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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