How much does Davison Bruce Foundation give?

Davison Bruce Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $1,102,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 54 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Davison Bruce Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Religion (15%), Health (14%).

Who are Davison Bruce Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Homes of Hope for Children Inc ($602k), Young Life ($351k), Bracken Christian School of Bulverde ($310k).

Does Davison Bruce Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Davison Bruce Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Davison Bruce Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Alabama Power Foundation Inc, Scott Foundation Inc.

Where is Davison Bruce Foundation based?

Davison Bruce Foundation is based in TN.

Davison Bruce Foundation

Davison Bruce Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Davison Bruce Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$66k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% 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$2.1MReligion$1.3MHealth$1.2MYouth Development$1.1MEducation$778kInternational$617kRecreation & Sports$347kCrime & Legal$284kOther$0

02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k10 grants · $30k
$10k–50k36 grants · $733k
$50k–250k6 grants · $340k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$22M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
SMILE A MILE	$40,000
ESPERANZA HOUSE INC	$40,000
KIDS HUB CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER	$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

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$8.1M · 72 repeat orgs$511k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +42% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.1M

$366k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+42%

Still filing today

53%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthReligionEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

HO
HOMES OF HOPE FOR CHILDREN INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $602k · revenue +47%
YL
YOUNG LIFE
6× · 2019–2024 · $351k · revenue +38%
BC
BRACKEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF BULVERDE
7× · 2018–2024 · $310k · revenue +155%

Funded once

EH
EMMAUS HOUSE
one grant, 2017 · $50k
LC
LEE COUNTY CASA
one grant, 2018 · $25k
WH
WARRIOR HEART FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $25k

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.

Agape of Central Alabama Inc

As a ministry of jesus christ, agape's mission is that vulnerable and orphaned children find permanency in safe, nurturing families.

Human Services

Hope Family Ministries Inc

To provide biblical based counseling

Religion

Christian Services for Children in Alabama

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.

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Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion

Collins Home Family Ministries

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…

—

But God Ministries

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…

International

Bless the Children Ministries Inc

To be the love of christ to uganda's orphaned and vulnerable children, equipping them to become authentic godly leaders that transform generations

International

African Children's Mission Inc

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.

Religion

Feed the Hunger Inc

Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.

—

Miracle Hill Ministries Inc

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.

Human Services

Bridge of Hope Ministries

Transforming lives in the Ville through access to supportive services and efficacy.

Religion

Challenge Ministries Us

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.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Refuge 1212 Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

57/58

Grantees still filing

44/58

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,265,279Human Services$1,881,265Health$1,080,981Religion$434,700Youth Development$431,813Education$258,000Recreation & Sports$219,200

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

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.

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 Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL28.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

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.

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