Alabama · Private foundation
The Lee Bruno 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.
- $688k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations The Lee Bruno Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $690k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $634k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $618k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $686k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $567k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $549k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $530k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $519k | 39% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Her Choice Birmingham Inc | $300,000 | 9 | 10% |
| St Rose Catholic School | $270,000 | 5 | n/a |
| St Bernard Preparatory School | $250,300 | 5 | n/a |
| Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation | $185,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs | $169,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Fellowship of Catholic University Students | $165,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Smile-A-Mile | $150,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Mitchell's Place Inc | $129,200 | 5 | 1% |
| Magic City Harvest Inc | $122,500 | 5 | 4% |
| Holy Family Cristo Rey Catholic High School Inc | $111,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lee Bruno Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Protective Life Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Junior League of Birmingham Inc · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation
How this is measured
About The Lee Bruno Foundation
- How much does The Lee Bruno Foundation give?
- The Lee Bruno Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $687,962 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Lee Bruno Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (29%), Health (28%), Education (24%).
- Who are The Lee Bruno Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Her Choice Birmingham Inc ($300k), St Rose Catholic School ($270k), St Bernard Preparatory School ($250k).
- Does The Lee Bruno Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lee Bruno 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 The Lee Bruno Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust, Protective Life Foundation.
- Where is The Lee Bruno Foundation based?
- The Lee Bruno Foundation is based in AL.
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