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Bruce Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Bruce Family Charitable 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.

$148k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$495kArts & Culture$108kHealth$37kFood & Nutrition$12kRecreation & Sports$5kAnimals$5kHuman Services$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PURDUE FOUNDATION$75,000
FRANK DUVANEK ARTS AND CULTURAL$20,000
CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER$10,000
CINCINNATI CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER$10,000
MATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES INC$10,000
MERCY MONTESSORI CENTER$5,000
CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL MED CTR$5,000
CINCINNATI PARKS FOUNDATION$3,000
SPCA CINCINNATI$3,000
SAINT URSULA ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI INC$2,500
CINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION$2,000
ASPCA$2,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ASPCA: $2k → 17%PURDUE FOUNDATION: $75k → 19%CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $10k → 16%FRANK DUVANEK ARTS AND CULTURAL: $20k → 11%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $75k → 19%MERCY MONTESSORI CENTER: $10k → 16%FRIENDS OF FRANK DUVANEK: $10k → 11%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $75k → 19%MERCY MONTESSORI CENTER: $10k → 16%FRIENDS OF FRANK DUVANEK: $10k → 11%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $75k → 19%MERCY MONTESSORI CENTER: $10k → 16%FRIENDS OF FRANK DUVANEK: $10k → 11%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $75k → 19%MERCY MONTESSORI CENTER: $5k → 16%FRIENDS OF FRANK DUVANEK: $10k → 11%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $75k → 19%MERCY MONTESSORI CENTER: $3k → 16%FRIENDS OF FRANK DUVANEK: $10k → 11%SAINT URSULA ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI INC: $3k → 16%MARIEMONT PLAYERS: $5k → 16%MARIEMONT PLAYERS: $5k → 16%MARIELDERS SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 16%marielders senior center: $1k → 16%SAINT URSULA ACADEMY: $2k → 16%CLARK MUSIC BOOSTER: $2k → 16%CLARK MUSIC BOOSTER: $2k → 16%SAINT URSULA ACADEMY: $2k → 16%CINCINNATI'S CHILDREN'S HOSP: $7k → 16%CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL MED CTR: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI'S CHILDREN'S HOSP: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI'S CHILDREN'S HOSP: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI'S CHILDREN'S HOSP: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI'S CHILDREN'S HOSP: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $2k → 16%SPCA CINCINNATI: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI PARKS FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI PARKS FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%CINCINNATI CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER: $10k → 16%HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI: $2k → 16%HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI: $2k → 16%Cincinnati Art Museum: $2k → 16%CINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $2k → 16%CINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $2k → 16%HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI: $1k → 16%MATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 16%MATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES INC: $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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$540k · 12 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
1

Total granted

$540k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
0%

Still filing today

42%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureAnimalsHealthInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • MP
    MARIEMONT PLAYERS INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +330% · 74% of their budget
  • CP
    CINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +38%
  • HO
    HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED
    3× · 2021–2023 · $5k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • CM
    CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
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
Cincinnati Zoo Foundation Inc

Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.

Animals
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
4
Cincinnati Animal Care Humane Society

We meet the immediate needs of animals in our community through individualized care, life saving solutions, and temporary shelter en-route to a safe, compatible home. we envision a community where all animals are valued, protected and have…

Animals
5
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber

To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.

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6
Cincinnati Observatory Center

The mission of the cincinnati observatory is to maintain the integrity and heritage of an historic 19th century observatory and to educate, engage, and inspire our community about astronomy and science.

Arts & Culture
7
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park

We are Cincinnati's national theater - committed to bringing diverse, engaging works of great artistry to our community, and to putting Cincinnati's artistic excellence in the national spotlight.

Arts & Culture
8
Cintrifuse

To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.

Community Improvement
9
Columbus Medical Association Foundation

The columbus medical association foundation, through the governance and oversight of its board of physicians and other experts, effects change within specific priority areas to improve the health and wellbeing of the residents and…

Health
10
Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals
11
Mount Carmel Health System

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

—
12
Children's Physicians

Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association; the most unlike its peers is Mariemont Players 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

10 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. 10 of the 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $375,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYPURDUE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherPURDUE FOUNDATIONFRIENDS OF FRANK DUVANEK: $50,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF FRANK DUVANEKMERCY MONTESSORI CENTER: $38,000 · OtherMERCY MONTESSORI CENTERCINCINNATI'S CHILDREN'S HOSP: $27,000 · Other+6 more: $47,500 · Other+6 moreCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMARIEMONT PLAYERS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $5,500 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · Arts & CultureMatthew 25 Ministries Inc: $12,000 · InternationalCincinnati Parks Foundation: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 · HealthTHE HAMILTON COUNTY SPCA INC DBA SPCA CINCINNATI: $3,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,000 · Animals
Other$612,500Arts & Culture$27,500International$12,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Health$5,000Animals$5,000

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 budgetMatthew 25 Ministries Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIEMONT PLAYERS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 74% of budgetCINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $5,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Parks Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAMILTON COUNTY SPCA INC DBA SPCA CINCINNATI: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 1y, 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 Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MARIEMONT PLAYERS INC ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Parks Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE HAMILTON COUNTY SPCA INC DBA SPCA CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗

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.

The Greater Cincinnat…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Bruce Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bruce Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 20 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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