How much did THE BRUCE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of THE BRUCE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k25 grants · $30k
$10k–50k2 grants · $29k
$50k–250k2 grants · $115k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

NORTHMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$65,000
BUTZ SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$50,000
SHENANGO AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT$17,304
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA THE MORAINE TRAILS COUNCIL$12,000
NEW CASTLE YMCA$6,200
WESTMINSTER COLLEGE$4,000
UNITED WAY OF LAWRENCE COUNTY$1,700
CRAY YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES$1,500
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS$1,000
COMPASSIONATE CHRISTIAN COURIERS FUND$1,000
CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION$1,000
LARK ENTERPRISES$1,000
ARISE$1,000
LCF FILLING IN THE GAPS FUND$1,000
SHENANGO COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$1,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$469k · 30 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$469k

$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%

+108%

Still filing today

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEmploymentCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther

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

WC
WESTMINSTER COLLEGE
8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +13%
LE
LARK ENTERPRISES
8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +10%
CS
CRISIS SHELTER OF LAWRENCE COUNTY
5× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +36%

Funded once

MP
MARTI PARK FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $15k
SU
SAVANNAH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
one grant, 2017 · $6k
UH
UPMC HORIZON COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

New Castle Public Library

The mission of the new castle public library is to enrich our community by providing library resources and services to meet the informational, educational, cultural, and recreational needs of the citizens of new castle. the library serves…

Education

The New Castle Historical Society

The new castle historical society is an educational organization dedicated to engaging diverse audiences in learning about the rich history of the town of new castle. the horace greeley house serves as a house museum, an exhibition space,…

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Lewis & Clark College

The mission of lewis & clark college is to know the traditions of the liberal arts, to test their boundaries through ongoing exploration, and to hand on to successive generations the tools and discoveries of this quest. by these means, the…

Education

New Castle County Chamber of Commerce I

Create business development opportunities for our members and advocate for strong and stable economic climate.

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Wilson College

Wilson college is a private, liberal arts institution committed to access and affordability in higher education. degrees are offered in 34 undergraduate majors with 40 minors as well as 10 graduate-level programs of study.

Education

Luther Classical College

Luther classical college educates lutherans in the classical, lutheran tradition and prepares them for godly vocations within family, church, and society, fostering christian culture through study of the best of our western heritage.

Education

Central Market Trust

We are the trusted steward of lancaster central market cultivating businesses, relationships, and community in and around our public market.

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University of the Ozarks

A presbyterian church related university that provides undergraduate liberal arts education.

Education

Hastings College

Hastings college is a private, co-education, residential, liberal arts college founded in 1882.

Education

Barclay College

To prepare students in a bible- centered environment for christian life, service, and leadership

Education

Thomas Struthers Trust

Entertaining, educating, and engaging the people of warren county and the surrounding region in all the qualities and delights of live theatre, music, dance, and film.

Arts & Culture

Houghton University

A nationally ranked christian university founded by the wesleyan church.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Castle Playhouse Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hoyt Foundation. 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

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/17

Grantees still filing

9/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$467,283Education$41,100Employment$8,000Human Services$7,200Philanthropy$6,700Crime & Legal$1,500Arts & Culture$1,000Public Safety & Disaster$100

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.

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.

Hoyt FoundationPA20.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hoyt Foundation · Community Foundation of Western · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation THE BRUCE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC 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.

2024

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0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LAWRENCE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +57% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 251389552 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LAWRENCE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Bruce Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Bruce Family Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE BRUCE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Bruce Family Foundation Inc?

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THE BRUCE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Bruce Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph