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Bruno Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$45k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
7%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 34
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$222k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Bruno Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$44k12%
FY202415$44k7%
FY202331$98k3%
FY202234$99k9%
FY202132$87k6%
FY202030$89k20%
FY201931$45k3%
FY201828$42k21%
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$208kInternational$77kHealth$71kReligion$64kFood & Nutrition$15kYouth Development$13kHousing & Shelter$12kEducation$11kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MN
NY
CT
CO
MO
NM
AR
TN
DC
MS
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees
All grantees of Bruno Family Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Christ Is Life Ministries$55,50056%
Buckner Foundation Inc$35,00060%
Focus on the Family$26,5006n/a
High Sky Childrens Ranch Inc$25,00060%
Hill Country Community Needs Council$25,00080%
The Grace Center$15,50060%
Fredericksburg Food Pantry Inc$13,00082%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$10,00020%
Global Outreach International Inc$10,00050%
Save The Children Federation Inc$9,00090%
Eden Volunteer Fire Dept$9,0009n/a
Paralyzed Veterans of America$6,00050%
Fellowship International Mission$5,0001n/a
Compassion International Incorporated$4,50070%
Denison Ministries$4,0003n/a
Hill Country Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$4,00080%
The May Center for Learning$4,00020%
Commission Ministers Network$3,0001n/a
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$3,00020%
Recording Library of West Texas$2,50040%
Heifer International Foundation$2,50030%
Meals for the Elderly Inc$2,00020%
Americares Foundation Inc$2,00020%
Hospice of San Angelo Inc$2,00020%
Concho Valley Regional Food Bank$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($313k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bruno Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChrist Is Life Ministries: $55,500 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetBuckner Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHigh Sky Childrens Ranch Inc: $25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHill Country Community Needs Council: $25,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetThe Grace Center: $15,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFredericksburg Food Pantry Inc: $13,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Outreach International Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetParalyzed Veterans of America: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $4,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHill Country Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $4,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe May Center for Learning: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRecording Library of West Texas: $2,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHeifer International Foundation: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMeals for the Elderly Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of San Angelo Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetConcho Valley Regional Food Bank: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX14.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Bruno Family Charitable Foundation

How much does Bruno Family Charitable Foundation give?
Bruno Family Charitable Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $45,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Bruno Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), International (14%), Health (13%).
Who are Bruno Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Christ Is Life Ministries ($56k), Buckner Foundation Inc ($35k), Focus on the Family ($27k).
Does Bruno Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bruno Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bruno Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Kathryn Nell Harrison Foundation Inc, Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation.
Where is Bruno Family Charitable Foundation based?
Bruno Family Charitable Foundation is based in TX.

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 53 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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