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Davison Bruce 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 $10k10 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $733k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $340k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIVING HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $66,000 |
| HOMES OF HOPE FOR CHILDREN | $65,000 |
| BRACKEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $53,500 |
| CRESTWOOD DAY SCHOOL | $52,500 |
| HARMONY HOUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHE | $52,500 |
| IMMANUEL CHURCH | $50,000 |
| TWIN CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES | $46,000 |
| KIDS HUB CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $40,000 |
| SMILE A MILE | $40,000 |
| ESPERANZA HOUSE INC | $40,000 |
| PETALS CHILDREN TASK FORCE | $39,000 |
| MERCY MEDICAL MINISTRY | $35,000 |
| TRUTH IN NATURE | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| HISPANIOLA MOUNTAIN MINISTRIES | $26,000 |
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, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 13 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k 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
- HOHOMES OF HOPE FOR CHILDREN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $602k · revenue +47%
- YLYOUNG LIFE6× · 2019–2024 · $351k · revenue +38%
- BCBRACKEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF BULVERDE7× · 2018–2024 · $310k · revenue +155%
Funded once
- EHEMMAUS HOUSEone grant, 2017 · $50k
- HCHUB CITY SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $25k
- LCLEE COUNTY CASAone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
As a ministry of jesus christ, agape's mission is that vulnerable and orphaned children find permanency in safe, nurturing families.
To provide biblical based counseling
The mission of christian services for children in alabama is to show the love of christ by providing counseling and other related services to children and their families.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Collins family ministries, inc. exists to embody the love of christ by providing compassion to families, children, and at-risk youth who are experiencing hardship. we provide shelter for children, strength to families, and stability to our…
Sharing the love of jesus christ by building sustainable communities around the world and providing medical care to low-income households in the united states. the organization is currently building two sustainable communities in haiti and…
To be the love of christ to uganda's orphaned and vulnerable children, equipping them to become authentic godly leaders that transform generations
Reaching out to children in east africa living in destitute circumstances, both physically and with the gospel of jesus christ, to enable them to grow and develop in a secure environment.
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.
Transforming lives in the Ville through access to supportive services and efficacy.
The organization exists to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ while providing support and serving the poor through benevolent assistance, medical services, education, orphan care, church planting, etc.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Refuge 1212 Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bighouse Inc. 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 22 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 117 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 HOMES OF HOPE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds BRACKEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF BULVERDE ↗
- Who funds PETAL CHILDRENS TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds HARMONY HOUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHE INC ↗
- Who funds JUST KEEP SMILING INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE-A-MILE ↗
- Who funds CRESTWOOD DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS HUB ↗
- Who funds RAPE COUNSELORS OF EAST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds KERUSSO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds TRUTH IN NATURE INC ↗
- Who funds STORYBOOK FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Alabama Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY ON A HILL INC ↗
- Who funds MARANNOOK INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
- Who funds THE WAY 2 SERVE INC F/K/A THE WAY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY MEDICAL MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds SKY HIGH FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds TROUP CARES INC ↗
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: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Scott Foundation Inc · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Protective Life Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Charter Foundation Inc · Junior League of Birmingham Inc · Alfa 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 Davison 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.
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.
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