· Private foundation
Bruce 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
- $10k–50k39 grants · $950k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $780k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $400,000 |
| HOPE FOR THE HOMELESS | $100,000 |
| BEVERLY FARM | $100,000 |
| CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK | $70,000 |
| AFRICAN AMERICAN MUS OF SO AZ | $60,000 |
| AS YOU SOW | $50,000 |
| GRAND CANYON TRUST | $50,000 |
| NOURISHING HOPE | $50,000 |
| MARINE LIFE CTR JUNO BEACH | $50,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $50,000 |
| ED BRUNE MEM SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $50,000 |
| REVIVE CENTER | $50,000 |
| FCACC | $50,000 |
| RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES | $50,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH | $40,000 |
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, $983k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
63 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 8 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k 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
- CFCHICAGO FURNITURE BANK8× · 2018–2025 · $365k · revenue +336%
- HFHope for the Homeless Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $195k · revenue +87% · 36% of their budget
- NHNOURISHING HOPE8× · 2017–2025 · $188k · revenue +307%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $15k
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.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The arizona pet project creates systemic change and provides resources, so no families are forced to balance their own basic needs of food, shelter, and safety and the needs of their companion animals, often the only meaningful connection…
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
Reduce the euthanasia rate of healthy and adoptable animals and improve the lives of companion animals by finding permanent homes for animals in need, providing support to communities who do not have access to humane organizations,…
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Animal equality is an international organization working with society, governments, and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 104 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 HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds Hope for the Homeless Inc ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds Providence St Mel School ↗
- Who funds Maryville Academy ↗
- Who funds Elyssas Mission NFP ↗
- Who funds BEAGLE FREEDOM PROJECT ↗
- Who funds EASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL VOTER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Karuna Horse Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TOUCHED BY AN ANIMAL ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds NURTURING MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Social Services Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE TAIL AT A TIME NFP ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SPL SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Pima Animal Care Center ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds AS YOU SOW ↗
- Who funds ALRAY TAYLOR SECOND CHANCE SCHOLARSHIP FUND CORPORATION ↗
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: Arizona Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
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 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.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
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.