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Bruno-Rumore Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$486k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
37
Grants FY2024
34
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$45,000
Organizations funded a year
20 to 54
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$7.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Bruno-Rumore Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $239k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthReligionArts & CulturePublic BenefitInternationalOther
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
FY2024still arriving31$486k39%
FY202334$406k50%
FY202220$396k30%
FY202127$421k52%
FY202034$468k44%
FY201954$467k74%
FY201834$453k59%
FY201735$427kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$1.9MEducation$547kHuman Services$326kHealth$190kCivil Rights$175kArts & Culture$135kYouth Development$57kPublic Safety & Disaster$35kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
NY
IA
PA
CO
NE
VA
DE
KS
TN
NC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United for Life Foundation$175,000729%
St Rose Catholic School$88,0005n/a
Magic Moments$80,00062%
Red Mountain Theatre Company Inc$36,50040%
Vestavia Hills Police Foundation$34,00038%
West Side Helping Hand$32,00032%
Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary$29,0001n/a
Bible Christian Society$22,5001n/a
Big Oak Ranch Inc$21,00020%
Sister Servants of the Eternal Word Inc$20,0002n/a
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All grantees of Bruno-Rumore Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United for Life Foundation$175,000729%
St Rose Catholic School$88,0005n/a
Magic Moments$80,00062%
Red Mountain Theatre Company Inc$36,50040%
Vestavia Hills Police Foundation$34,00038%
West Side Helping Hand$32,00032%
Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary$29,0001n/a
Bible Christian Society$22,5001n/a
Big Oak Ranch Inc$21,00020%
Sister Servants of the Eternal Word Inc$20,0002n/a
Lee University$15,00010%
La Promesa Foundation$12,00030%
Vestavia Hills Library Foundation$11,000221%
International Justice Mission$10,00010%
The Bespoke Foundation Inc$10,000249%
Cross Catholic Outreach Inc$10,0001n/a
Italian American Heritage Society$10,00013%
Lifeline Children's Services Inc$10,00010%
Backpack Buddies Inc$8,00035%
Missions Arise Foundation Inc$8,0002n/a
Its the Little Things Ministries$8,0002n/a
Downtown Jimmie Hale Mission$6,00020%
Priests for Life$5,0001n/a
Oasis Inc$3,0001n/a
Turning Point Foundation$3,00011%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$3,00020%
Food for Our Journey$2,20020%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,50010%
Sav-A-Life Inc$1,30020%
Wreaths Across America$1,21240%
Better Basics Inc$1,00010%
Unbound$1,00010%
Rise Against Hunger Inc$1,00010%
Avila Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Marys Shelter$1,00011%
Heart Gallery of Alabama Inc$1,00010%
Orange Beach Volunteers Fire Department Inc$5001n/a
First Light Inc$50010%
Childrens Dance Foundation$5001n/a
Community Kitchens of Birmingham$50010%

Plus 119 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Bruno-Rumore Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited for Life Foundation: $175,000 over 7y, 29% of budgetMagic Moments: $80,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetRed Mountain Theatre Company Inc: $36,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVestavia Hills Police Foundation: $34,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetWest Side Helping Hand: $32,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetBig Oak Ranch Inc: $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLee University: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLa Promesa Foundation: $12,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVestavia Hills Library Foundation: $11,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetInternational Justice Mission: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bespoke Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 49% of budgetItalian American Heritage Society: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetLifeline Children's Services Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBackpack Buddies Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetDowntown Jimmie Hale Mission: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTurning Point Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFood for Our Journey: $2,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSav-A-Life Inc: $1,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWreaths Across America: $1,212 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBetter Basics Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnbound: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRise Against Hunger Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAvila Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarys Shelter: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHeart Gallery of Alabama Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFirst Light Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Kitchens of Birmingham: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 29.

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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.

The Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL24.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Lee Bruno Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Robert and Lois Luckie Charitable Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc

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-Rumore Foundation

How much does Bruno-Rumore Foundation give?
Bruno-Rumore Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $485,719 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 54 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Bruno-Rumore Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (54%), Education (16%), Human Services (9%).
Who are Bruno-Rumore Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United for Life Foundation ($175k), St Rose Catholic School ($88k), Magic Moments ($80k).
Does Bruno-Rumore Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bruno-Rumore Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bruno-Rumore Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, The Lee Bruno Foundation, Protective Life Foundation.
Where is Bruno-Rumore Foundation based?
Bruno-Rumore Foundation is based in AL.

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 159 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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