Tennessee · 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.
- $232k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Bruce Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $232k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $251k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $239k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $224k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $218k | 41% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $172k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $138k | 77% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $69k | 71% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men of Valor | $157,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Recovery Court of Sumner County Inc | $95,000 | 4 | 20% |
| Tennessee Prison Outreach Ministry Inc | $53,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Grace Place Ministry Inc | $52,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Nashville Inner City Ministry Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 1% |
| This Is Living Ministries | $40,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Children Are People Rutherford County Inc | $35,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Living Sent Ministries | $35,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Renewal House Inc | $30,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Jason Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($785k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bruce Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Bruce Family Foundation
- How much does Bruce Family Foundation give?
- Bruce Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $231,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bruce Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (33%), Crime & Legal (22%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Bruce Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Men of Valor ($157k), Recovery Court of Sumner County Inc ($95k), Tennessee Prison Outreach Ministry Inc ($53k).
- Does Bruce Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bruce Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bruce Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Hca Healthcare Foundation, Memorial Foundation Inc.
- Where is Bruce Family Foundation based?
- Bruce Family Foundation is based in TN.
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