Skip to content
Bruce Family Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$534kCrime & Legal$346kHuman Services$150kHealth$122kYouth Development$112kReligion$111kHousing & Shelter$51kArts & Culture$48kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $152k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$40,000
TN PRISON OUTREACH MINISTRY$26,000
MEN OF VALOR$25,000
CRISES PREGNANCY CENTER$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
RENEWAL HOUSE$5,000
CROSS POINT CHURCH$5,000
LIVING SENT MINISTRIES$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SUMNER ACADEMY$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PEOPLE LOVING NASHVILLE: $3k → 14%TENNSEEE KIDS BELONG: $5k → 4%TENNSEEE KIDS BELONG: $5k → 4%TENNSEEE KIDS BELONG: $5k → 4%RESTORE SMALL GROUPS: $5k → 14%RESTORE SMALL GROUPS: $5k → 14%RESTORE SMALL GROUPS: $3k → 14%CHILDREN ARE PEOPLE: $10k → 8%CHILDREN ARE PEOPLE: $10k → 8%JASON FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%THE JASON FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 8%JASON FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%THE JASON FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 8%THE JASON FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 8%FreshStart Resources: $1k → 8%COMMUNITY LFE BRIDGE: $600 → 8%HOPE FOR JUSTICE: $3k → 14%HOPE FOR JUSTICE: $3k → 14%HOPE FOR JUSTICE: $3k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
CA
MO
VA
NM
TN
NC
GA
TX
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 47 repeat orgs$218k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +35% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
47

Total granted

$1.4M
$199k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+35%

Still filing today

53%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalReligionOther
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

  • MO
    MEN OF VALOR
    8× · 2018–2025 · $157k · revenue +406%
  • RC
    RECOVERY COURT OF SUMNER COUNTY INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $95k · revenue +515%
  • TP
    TENNESSEE PRISON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +368%

Funded once

  • SC
    SUMNER COUNTY RECOVERY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • IC
    INNER CITY MINISTRY
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • CJ
    CITATION JET PILOTS SAFETY & EDUC FOUND
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
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
Next Door Ministries

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…

Religion
2
Outreach for Youth of Columbus

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…

Religion
3
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

—
4
Renew Clinic

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.

Health
5
Redemption Road Ministries

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…

Religion
6
Come to Him Ministries

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…

Health
7
Christlife Ministries

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…

Crime & Legal
8
Convicted 4 Christ Ministries

Drug & alcohol rehabilitation for men

Religion
9
Life Training Ministries Inc

Christian counseling for individuals with anxiety depression or other emotional struggles. Christian counseling for marriages and other couples.

Human Services
10
Christian Recovery Centers Inc

To provide guidance and rehabilitation in a christ centered residential setting for persons with addiction

Health
11
Recovery Ministries Inc
Religion
12
Biblical Counseling and Training Ministries

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.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Next Door Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 100 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
30/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CRISES PREGNANCY CENTER: $140,000 · OtherCRISES PREGNANCY CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $115,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSTIY OF TENNESSEE: $86,000 · OtherUNIVERSTIY OF TENNESSEEUNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE: $55,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEETENNESSEE PRISION MINISTRY: $50,500 · OtherTENNESSEE PRISION MINISTRYNASHVILLE INNER CITY MINISTRY INC: $50,000 · OtherGRACE PLACE: $32,000 · Other+66 more: $413,350 · Other+66 moreMEN OF VALOR: $157,000 · Crime & LegalMEN OF VALORTENNESSEE PRISON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC: $53,000 · Crime & LegalTENNESSEE PRISON …THIS IS LIVING MINISTRIES: $40,000 · Crime & LegalTHIS IS LIVING MI…RECOVERY COURT OF SUMNER COUNTY INC: $95,000 · EducationRECOVERY C…LIVING SENT MINISTRIES: $35,000 · EducationLIVING SEN…GLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK INC: $5,000 · EducationSUMNER ACADEMY INC: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $4,500 · EducationCHILDREN ARE PEOPLE RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE JASON FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTENNESSEE KIDS BELONG INC: $14,750 · Human ServicesRESTORE SMALL GROUPS: $12,500 · Human ServicesHope for Justice Inc: $7,500 · Human ServicesFRESH START RESOURCES INC: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $3,100 · Human ServicesGRACE PLACE MINISTRY INC: $52,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE NEXT DOOR INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterRENEWAL HOUSE INC: $30,500 · HealthBETHESDA WORKSHOPS: $13,500 · HealthSALVUS CENTER INC: $5,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,500 · Health+1 more: $1,500 · HealthMISSION DISCOVERY INC: $14,000 · ReligionTouchstone Youth Rescue Services Inc: $14,000 · ReligionRECOVERY REFUGE: $10,000 · Religion
Other$941,850Crime & Legal$250,000Education$144,500Human Services$102,850Housing & Shelter$72,000Health$53,000Religion$38,000

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 budgetMEN OF VALOR: $157,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetRECOVERY COURT OF SUMNER COUNTY INC: $95,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetTENNESSEE PRISON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC: $53,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetGRACE PLACE MINISTRY INC: $52,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNASHVILLE INNER CITY MINISTRY INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHIS IS LIVING MINISTRIES: $40,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetCHILDREN ARE PEOPLE RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC: $35,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetLIVING SENT MINISTRIES: $35,000 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetRENEWAL HOUSE INC: $30,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JASON FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCHRIST LED COMMUNITIES INC FORMERLY CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONCEPTS: $22,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NEXT DOOR INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE KIDS BELONG INC: $14,750 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION: $14,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION DISCOVERY INC: $14,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTouchstone Youth Rescue Services Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetBETHESDA WORKSHOPS: $13,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetRESTORE SMALL GROUPS: $12,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE: $10,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetRECOVERY REFUGE: $10,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetHope for Justice Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMusic for the Soul Inc: $5,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetGLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSALVUS CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSUMNER ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBACKFIELD IN MOTION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA WORLDWIDE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE LOVING NASHVILLE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOFFEEN LAND TRUST INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING FREE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGUATEMALA DEAF MINISTRIES: $1,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCROSSBRIDGE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION: $1,000 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 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 MISSION DISCOVERY INC ↗
  • Who funds Touchstone Youth Rescue Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds BETHESDA WORKSHOPS ↗
  • Who funds RESTORE SMALL GROUPS ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds RECOVERY REFUGE ↗

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 Community Foundat…Hca Healthcare Founda…Memorial Foundation I…The Healing Trust For…Servant FoundationThe Frist FoundationNashville Predators F…United Way of Middle …Purity FoundationThe Goodall Family Fo…Washington FoundationRaymond James Charita…
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN36.6× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 100 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.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Bruce Family’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home