· Private foundation
Bruce 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| TN PRISON OUTREACH MINISTRY | $26,000 |
| CRISES PREGNANCY CENTER | $25,000 |
| MEN OF VALOR | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $15,000 |
| GRACE PLACE MINISTRY | $11,000 |
| THIS IS LIVING MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| BETHSEDA WORKSHOPS | $7,500 |
| GRACE FOR THE WONDED | $7,000 |
| RESTORE MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SUMNER ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| TOUCHSTONE YOUTH RESOURCE SERVICES | $5,000 |
| LIVING SENT MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| THE JASON FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +79% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MOMEN OF VALOR8× · 2018–2025 · $157k · revenue +406%
- RCRECOVERY COURT OF SUMNER COUNTY INC4× · 2018–2021 · $95k · revenue +515%
- TPTENNESSEE PRISON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC4× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +368%
Funded once
- SCSUMNER COUNTY RECOVERY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $30k
- ICINNER CITY MINISTRYone grant, 2024 · $20k
- CJCITATION JET PILOTS SAFETY & EDUC FOUNDone grant, 2023 · $13k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization's purpose is to provide resources for men taking the next steps from recovery to a sustainable lifestyle. Our goal is to create a path to success for men struggling with a broken life pattern by providing a Christ-centered…
Outreach ministries is a residential program focused on the restoration of men in crisis, offering a christian faith-based solution to freedom from addiction while addressing needs like homelessness, joblessness, and hopelessness. through…
Biblical counseling
We are a christ-centered intensive outpatient treatment center located in knoxville tn. our iop model follows a 12-week program that is christ-centered and clinically informed.
Redemption road provides housing, re-entry and transition services for men and women coming out of the criminal justice system. the mission is to provide to provide christ centered, bible based recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, damaged…
To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
Christlife ministries is a non-denominational program dedicated to the discipleship & restoration of ex-offenders, their families, & the imprisoned. mission begins with turning hearts, minds, and souls of parents to their children and…
Drug & alcohol rehabilitation for men
Christian counseling for individuals with anxiety depression or other emotional struggles. Christian counseling for marriages and other couples.
To provide guidance and rehabilitation in a christ centered residential setting for persons with addiction
To teach individuals how to apply the wisdom and depth of the bible's grace-centered message to the problems of daily living; and through various means, work to restore chirst to counseling and christ-centered counseling to the church.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Next Door Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 100 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MEN OF VALOR ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY COURT OF SUMNER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE PRISON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE PLACE MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE INNER CITY MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THIS IS LIVING MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN ARE PEOPLE RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING SENT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds RENEWAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JASON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST LED COMMUNITIES INC FORMERLY CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONCEPTS ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE KIDS BELONG INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Touchstone Youth Rescue Services Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSION DISCOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA WORKSHOPS ↗
- Who funds RESTORE SMALL GROUPS ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY REFUGE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Servant Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Purity Foundation · The Goodall Family Foundation · Washington Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bruce Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.