New Jersey · Nonprofit
BRUNAN INC DBA HEROS AND COOL KIDS INC
BRUNAN INC DBA HEROS AND COOL KIDS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,825 to it, the largest being NFL FOUNDATION INC ($120,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $282k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $174k
- Net assets
- $107k
What Brunan Inc Dba Heros and Cool Kids Inc does
Mission
To promote pro-social behavior in students and to create a caring and disciplined school climate.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Heroes & Cool Kids is a school-based mentoring program that was co-founded 17 years ago by the legendary NY Jets running back, Bruce Harper. We have been impacting the lives and childhoods of students ever since. Our locallybased (NJ/NY) program combines experiential learning inspired by professional athletes with leadership development and mentoring. Our program directly impacts young lives by raising awareness about peer pressures, school violence, intolerance, unethical behaviors, as well as reducing the use of drugs, alcohol and tobacco, and delaying the age of experimentation.In 2015, the program involved over 24,000 students, 2,800 student leaders, and 350 teen influencers (coaches, teachers, parents, faith leaders). It was a year in which we placed renewed focus on drug abuse prevention as a result of the growing heroin epidemic among young people in our area.Independent research by Fairleigh Dickinson University found that students in the program - as compared to a control group - showed significant improvement in setting goals and taking responsibility for the achievement of those goals, with 53% of students demonstrating a positive shift. Students also showed significant…
$223,363 spent$250,922 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $223,363.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $252k to $159k (−37%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
8% of BRUNAN INC DBA HEROS AND COOL KIDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $34k → $26k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BRUNAN INC DBA HEROS AND COOL KIDS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BRUNAN INC DBA HEROS AND COOL KIDS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BRUNAN INC DBA HEROS AND COOL KIDS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 60% · 2019 73% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
0% of BRUNAN INC DBA HEROS AND COOL KIDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
BRUNAN INC DBA HEROS AND COOL KIDS INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BRUNAN INC DBA HEROS AND COOL KIDS INC receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $174k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BRUNAN INC DBA HEROS AND COOL KIDS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRUNAN INC DBA HEROS AND COOL KIDS INC?
- BRUNAN INC DBA HEROS AND COOL KIDS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,825 to it, the largest being NFL FOUNDATION INC ($120,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRUNAN INC DBA HEROS AND COOL KIDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $173,825 in grants to BRUNAN INC DBA HEROS AND COOL KIDS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRUNAN INC DBA HEROS AND COOL KIDS INC?
- NFL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRUNAN INC DBA HEROS AND COOL KIDS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing