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Jerome V Bruni Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
38
Grants FY2025
36
Organizations funded FY2024
17%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
26 to 55
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$21M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Jerome V Bruni Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationInternationalPhilanthropyYouth 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving36$1.1M19%
FY202436$1.8M17%
FY202326$1.1M27%
FY202248$905k33%
FY202150$898k6%
FY202054$574k24%
FY201930$667k10%
FY201855$654k35%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$1.6MEducation$1.6MHealth$1.4MInternational$1.0MSocial Science$815kPhilanthropy$756kHuman Services$523kHousing & Shelter$222kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
IL
MI
NY
WY
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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 68 grantees
All grantees of Jerome V Bruni Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine$1,500,000318%
Northern Light Health Foundation$800,00023%
Air Force Academy Foundation$700,93051%
American Council of Trustees and Alumni$685,00059%
Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado Foundation$548,98722%
Partners in Housing Inc$184,89892%
Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty$160,00060%
Samaritan's Purse$135,00070%
Pikes Peak State College Foundation Inc$95,57443%
Care and Share Inc$90,31790%
Teach for America Inc$80,00030%
Pikes Peak United Way$75,00041%
Tessa$60,23591%
Colorado Council on Economic Education$60,00042%
Hope and Home$55,00070%
Carson Scholars Fund Inc$50,00051%
Atlas Preparatory School Inc$50,00050%
The Legacy Institute$50,00018%
Council for Economic Education$50,00040%
National Council on Teacher Quality Inc$40,00040%
Prison Fellowship International$40,00050%
Touch of Love International$38,00052%
Silver Key Senior Services Inc$37,36580%
The Place$36,41790%
The Philanthropy Roundtable$35,00050%
Community Partnership for Child Development$34,75590%
Tri-Lakes Cares$32,18590%
The Resource Exchange Inc$31,70190%
Colorado Springs Child Nursery Centers Inc$30,00060%
Mercy's Gate$26,28890%
Westside Cares Inc$25,99590%
Catholic Relief Services$25,0001n/a
The Springs Rescue Mission$25,00050%
Peak Vista Community Health Ctrs Foundation$20,250317%
Team Rubicon Inc$20,0001n/a
Colorado Springs Conservatory Foundation$20,00040%
The Fund for American Studies$20,00020%
Foundation for Teaching Economics$20,00020%
Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc$20,00010%
Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care Inc$17,47940%
The Home Front Cares Inc$16,82541%
Peak Education$15,00032%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$15,00010%
Mt Carmel Veterans Service Center$14,71240%
Cool Science$12,00043%
Griffith Centers$11,79550%
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank$10,00010%
Serenity Recovery Connection$10,00011%
Center for Nonprofit Excellence$10,00012%
Children's Literacy Center Inc$10,00022%
Colorado Nonprofit Association$10,00010%
Pikes Peak Hospice Foundation$9,20020%
Children's Advocacy Center for the Pikes Peak Region Inc$8,75030%
The Biologos Foundation Inc$8,00020%
Marion Medical Mission$7,00060%
Reach Pikes Peak$5,25011%
Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation$5,00010%
Sister Carmen Community Center Inc$5,00010%
Make Way For Books$5,00010%
Home Front Military Network$5,0001n/a
Hospice of Metro Denver Inc$5,00010%
Denver Kids Inc$2,00010%
Veterans Path Inc$2,00010%
Usafa Command Enlisted Fund$1,0001n/a
Grand Teton Music Festival Inc$1,0001n/a
Jefferson Barracks Pow-Mia Museum Inc$1,0001n/a
Denver Urban Scholars$1,00010%
The Old North End Neighborhood$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 65 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jerome V Bruni Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine: $1,500,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetNorthern Light Health Foundation: $800,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetAir Force Academy Foundation: $700,930 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican Council of Trustees and Alumni: $685,000 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetCatholic Health Initiatives Colorado Foundation: $548,987 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPartners in Housing Inc: $184,898 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty: $160,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $135,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPikes Peak State College Foundation Inc: $95,574 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCare and Share Inc: $90,317 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPikes Peak United Way: $75,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTessa: $60,235 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetColorado Council on Economic Education: $60,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetHope and Home: $55,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCarson Scholars Fund Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetAtlas Preparatory School Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Legacy Institute: $50,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetCouncil for Economic Education: $50,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNational Council on Teacher Quality Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPrison Fellowship International: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTouch of Love International: $38,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetSilver Key Senior Services Inc: $37,365 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Place: $36,417 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetThe Philanthropy Roundtable: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Partnership for Child Development: $34,755 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTri-Lakes Cares: $32,185 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetThe Resource Exchange Inc: $31,701 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Springs Child Nursery Centers Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMercy's Gate: $26,288 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetWestside Cares Inc: $25,995 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetThe Springs Rescue Mission: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPeak Vista Community Health Ctrs Foundation: $20,250 over 3y, 17% of budgetColorado Springs Conservatory Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Fund for American Studies: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Teaching Economics: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVolunteer Florida Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care Inc: $17,479 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Home Front Cares Inc: $16,825 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPeak Education: $15,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMt Carmel Veterans Service Center: $14,712 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCool Science: $12,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetGriffith Centers: $11,795 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Regional Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSerenity Recovery Connection: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCenter for Nonprofit Excellence: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetChildren's Literacy Center Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% 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 61.

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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 Joseph Henry Edmondson FoundationCO63.3× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Pikes Peak United Way · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · The Marson Foundation · Ent Credit Union · Gazette Charities

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 Jerome V Bruni Foundation

How much does Jerome V Bruni Foundation give?
Jerome V Bruni Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $1,171,574 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Jerome V Bruni Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (19%), Education (18%), Health (17%).
Who are Jerome V Bruni Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine ($1.5M), Northern Light Health Foundation ($800k), Air Force Academy Foundation ($701k).
Does Jerome V Bruni Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jerome V Bruni 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 Jerome V Bruni Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation, El Pomar Foundation, Pikes Peak United Way.
Where is Jerome V Bruni Foundation based?
Jerome V Bruni Foundation is based in CO.

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 137 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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