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Bruno Family Charitable Foundation

Midland, TX · EIN 20-2312085. Reported 18 grants totalling $45,000 to 18 recipients across tax years 2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$45,000granted, 2025
18recipients, as named on its returns
$1,202,501assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Bruno Family Charitable Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $2,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $15,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
14 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Christ Is Life MinistriesBoerne, TX$15,000112025
Children of New HorizonsMidland, TX$5,000112025
Fellowship International MissionAllentown, PA$5,000112025
First 15 DevotionalDallas, TX$3,000112025
Hill County Community Needs CouncilFredericksburg, TX$2,000112025
The Good Samaritan CenterFredericksburg, TX$2,000112025
The Grace CenterFredericksburg, TX$2,000112025
Alamo HospiceBoerne, TX$1,500112025
AmericaresStamford, CT$1,000112025
Eden Volunteer Fire DepartmentEden, TX$1,000112025
Fredericksburg Food PantryFredericksburg, TX$1,000112025
Golden Hub CommunityFredericksburg, TX$1,000112025
Heifer International FoundationAlbert Lea, MN$1,000112025
Operation SmileNew York, NY$1,000112025
Save the ChildrenWestport, CT$1,000112025
The Salvation ArmyFredericksburg, TX$1,000112025
World VisionTacoma, WA$1,000112025
Hill Country SPCAFredericksburg, TX$500112025
Plus 116 grants to individuals totalling $331,250 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 8 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

International Affairs
4 grants
Religion
1 grant
Animal Welfare
1 grant
Health Care
1 grant
Human Services
1 grant

Where its money goes

78% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Texas
$35K
Pennsylvania
$5K
Connecticut
$2K
Minnesota
$1K
New York
$1K
Washington
$1K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund7 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc7 shared recipientsRaymond James Charitable Endowment Fund5 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust5 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program4 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc3 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Texas.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Bruno Family Charitable Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 590, Midland, TX, 79702. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 20-2312085 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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