· Private foundation
Bruno Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Christ is Life Ministries | $25,500 |
| Children Of New Horizons | $4,000 |
| First 15 Devotional | $3,000 |
| Americares | $1,000 |
| Operation Smile | $1,000 |
| Fredericksburg Food Pantry | $1,000 |
| Eden Volunteer Fire Dept | $1,000 |
| Save the Children | $1,000 |
| The Grace Center | $1,000 |
| Hill Country Community Needs Counci | $1,000 |
| World Vision | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Heifer International Foundation | $1,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $1,000 |
| The Good Samaritan Center | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% 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.
46 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- BFBUCKNER FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2023 · $35k · revenue +120%
- HCHILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY NEEDS COUNCIL7× · 2018–2024 · $23k · revenue +163%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC2× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- CFCal Farley's Children Ranchone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CMCOMMISSION MINISTERS NETWORKone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +152%
- CVConcho Valley Regional Food Bankgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +40%
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.
Hospice care of terminally ill patients
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.
To provide management and administrative support for tax-exempt related entities.
Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.
As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Outreach International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paralyzed Veterans of America. 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 38 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 51 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 CHRIST IS LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY NEEDS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE GRACE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FREDERICKSBURG FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds THE MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION MINISTERS NETWORK ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Kathryn Nell Harrison Foundation Inc · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Abell-Hanger Foundation · Miramar Charitable Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment 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 Bruno Family Charitable 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% 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.