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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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.6MAnimals$1.3MFood & Nutrition$849kHousing & Shelter$670kHuman Services$639kHealth$553kEnvironment$319kPublic Benefit$277kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k39 grants · $950k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $780k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$25,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$400,000
BEVERLY FARM$100,000
HOPE FOR THE HOMELESS$100,000
CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK$70,000
AFRICAN AMERICAN MUS OF SO AZ$60,000
REVIVE CENTER$50,000
AS YOU SOW$50,000
GRAND CANYON TRUST$50,000
RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES$50,000
ED BRUNE MEM SCHOLARSHIP FUND$50,000
FCACC$50,000
MARINE LIFE CTR JUNO BEACH$50,000
NOURISHING HOPE$50,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$50,000
CHINCAHUA HEALTH FOUNDATION$40,000
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRESH START WOMENS FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES: $50k → 14%RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES: $40k → 14%EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $40k → 15%EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $18k → 15%EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $14k → 15%EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $14k → 15%NOT MY KID: $10k → 11%AVIVA CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $11k → 15%NOT MY KID: $8k → 11%EASTER SEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%EASTER SEALS - BLAKE FDN: $6k → 15%EASTER SEALS - BLAKE FDN: $5k → 15%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $30k → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $30k → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $15k → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $15k → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $15k → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $10k → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $10k → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $10k → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $10k → 14%NIGHT MINISTRY: $20k → 14%NIGHT MINISTRY: $20k → 14%NIGHT MINISTRY: $15k → 14%DREAMCATCHER FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%ANGEL CHARITY FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 15%ANGEL CHARITY FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 15%ANGEL CHARITY FOR CHILDREN: $4k → 15%DREAMCATCHER FOUNDATION: $12k → 14%DREAMCATCHER FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%DREAMCATCHER FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%DREAMCATCHER FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%DREAMCATCHER FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%NEW MOMS: $20k → 14%NEW MOMS: $20k → 14%DREAMCATCHER FOUNDATION: $12k → 14%DREAMCATCHER FOUNDATION: $12k → 14%DREAMCATCHER FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $55k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $50k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $50k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $30k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $30k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $10k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $70k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $70k → 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
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
CA
UT
VA
MD
AZ
AR
NC
DC
LA
MS
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.9M · 63 repeat orgs$532k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
30

Total granted

$5.9M
$262k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+93%

Still filing today

62%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k 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
AnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalHealthEducationOther
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

  • CF
    CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK
    8× · 2018–2025 · $365k · revenue +336%
  • HF
    Hope for the Homeless Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $195k · revenue +87% · 36% of their budget
  • NH
    NOURISHING HOPE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $188k · revenue +307%

Funded once

  • NJ
    NANCY J BREA ANIMAL CARE CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • PP
    PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -21%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
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
Animal Care Sanctuary

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…

Animals
2
Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals
3
The Arizona Pet Project

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…

Animals
4
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
5
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 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…

Animals
6
Animal Outlook Inc

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.

Animals
7
Shelter From the Storm Animal Rescue Inc

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,…

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8
Humane Society of Southern Arizona

To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.

Animals
9
Humane Animal Partners

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…

Animals
10
Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit

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…

Animals
11
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
12
Animal Equality

Animal equality is an international organization working with society, governments, and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Humane Society; 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.
04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 104 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
41/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEVERLY FARM: $470,000 · OtherBEVERLY FARMMARINE LIFE CTR JUNO BEACH: $250,000 · OtherMARINE LIFE CTR JUNO BEACHFCACC: $202,000 · OtherREVIVE CENTER: $193,000 · OtherNOURISHING HOPE: $188,000 · OtherProvidence St Mel School: $175,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF CHICAGO: $165,000 · OtherFLINT CREEK WILDLIFE REHAB: $137,000 · Other+62 more: $2,223,000 · Other+62 moreHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1,855,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGENURTURING MINDS INC: $91,000 · Education+1 more: $62,000 · EducationCHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $365,000 · Human ServicesCHICAGO FURNI…Maryville Academy: $145,000 · Human ServicesMaryville Aca…EASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $127,000 · Human ServicesEASTERSEALS B…Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc: $109,000 · Human ServicesDreamcatcher …Renaissance Social Services Inc: $90,000 · Human ServicesRenaissance S…THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $55,000 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MIN…NEW MOMS INC: $40,000 · Human Services+4 more: $52,000 · Human ServicesBEAGLE FREEDOM PROJECT: $130,000 · AnimalsBEAGLE FR…Karuna Horse Rescue Inc: $124,000 · AnimalsKaruna Ho…TOUCHED BY AN ANIMAL: $105,000 · AnimalsTOUCHED B…ONE TAIL AT A TIME NFP: $85,000 · AnimalsONE TAIL …Friends of Pima Animal Care Center: $74,000 · AnimalsFriends o…LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $51,000 · AnimalsLINCOLN P…Chiricahua Health Foundation: $40,000 · AnimalsChiricahu…HUMANE INDIANA INC: $40,000 · AnimalsHUMANE IN…+5 more: $41,000 · Animals+5 moreHope for the Homeless Inc: $195,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $55,000 · HealthBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC: $93,000 · Youth DevelopmentGOOD SPORTS INC: $91,000 · Youth DevelopmentElyssas Mission NFP: $140,000 · Crime & LegalLIFE-SPAN: $31,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$4,003,000Education$2,008,000Human Services$983,000Animals$690,000Health$260,000Youth Development$184,000Crime & Legal$171,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1,855,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $365,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetHope for the Homeless Inc: $195,000 over 4y, 36% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE: $188,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetProvidence St Mel School: $175,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetMaryville Academy: $145,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetElyssas Mission NFP: $140,000 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetBEAGLE FREEDOM PROJECT: $130,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetEASTERSEALS BLAKE FOUNDATION: $127,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL VOTER PROJECT INC: $126,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetKaruna Horse Rescue Inc: $124,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC: $110,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDreamcatcher Foundation Inc: $109,000 over 9y, 9.1% of budgetTOUCHED BY AN ANIMAL: $105,000 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC: $93,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNURTURING MINDS INC: $91,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetGOOD SPORTS INC: $91,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRenaissance Social Services Inc: $90,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetONE TAIL AT A TIME NFP: $85,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $81,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSPL SPORTS INC: $81,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetFriends of Pima Animal Care Center: $74,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAS YOU SOW: $65,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetALRAY TAYLOR SECOND CHANCE SCHOLARSHIP FUND CORPORATION: $62,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $55,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $51,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MOMS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChiricahua Health Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetHUMANE INDIANA INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $37,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation): $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLIFE-SPAN: $31,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMR MO PROJECT SENIOR DOG RESCUE: $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAngel Charity for Children Inc: $18,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSEED SPOT: $18,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAVIVA CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $11,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetArizona Humane Society: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE MISSION INC DBA 1MISSION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 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 NURTURING MINDS INC ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SPORTS 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 ↗

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.

Arizona Community Fou…Community Foundation …United Way of Tucson …Polk Bros Foundation …The Chicago Community…Connie Hillman Family…Jewish Community Foun…Fifth Third Chicagola…Dr Scholl FoundationThe Intuit FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Ayco Charitable F…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ22.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 104 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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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