· Private foundation
The Andy Bruce 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $11,000 |
| MIGHTY OAKES HEART FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WALLINGFORD-SWARTHMORE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,000 |
| TEACHERS TEAMMATES | $5,000 |
| CHILDRENS CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against -51% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CUCOLGATE UNIVERSITY4× · 2022–2025 · $41k · revenue +19%
- CCCHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +13%
- TMTHE MIGHTY OAKES HEART FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INDEPENDENCE REGIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -51%
- PYPhiladelphia Youth Action Incone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -59%
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.
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.
We develop, engage, and retain principals and system leaders who transform schools, dramatically improve student outcomes, and drive systemic change to prepare all philadelphia students for college, career, and life.
Organization's mission: the mission of cadekids is to promote children's potential for growth through comprehensive, school-based and community-based youth development and support programs that are begun at an early age and are designed to…
Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
Youth enrichment services, inc. was founded in 1994 for the purpose of providing at-risk teens and low-income families residing in allegheny county a comprehensive in-home peer mentoring program, juvenile alternative to detention,…
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
Bigs & littles nyc mentoring is a nonprofit community-based organization which transforms the lives of vulnerable nyc children and strengthens families through professionally guided one-to-one mentoring, life skills programming, and…
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.
Los Angeles Team Mentorings (LATM) mission is to guide middle school students growing up in challenging urban environments to recognize and reach their full potential. See Schedule O for more details.
The mission of the peal center is to educate and empower families to ensure that children, youth and young adults with disabilities and special health care needs lead rich, active lives as full members of their schools and communities.
Children's national coordinates the overall policy and activities of the affiliated organizations. see schedule o.
Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MIGHTY OAKES HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INDEPENDENCE REGION ↗
- Who funds TEACHERS' TEAMMATES INC ↗
- Who funds Philadelphia Youth Action Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Andy Bruce Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Andy Bruce Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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