· Private foundation
Adam M Bak Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS | $50,000 |
| FUNDACJA POLSKI INSTYTUT | $50,000 |
| HJP SERVICES LLC | $6,660 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 12% of grant dollars ($221k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 88% that went abroad ($1.6M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Beyond the US: 88% of all-years giving ($1.6M)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient5× · 2017–2023 · $608k
- IGIndividual grant recipient5× · 2018–2022 · $235k
- TITHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS2× · 2021–2023 · $120k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $103k
- FOFUNDACJA OSUCHOWAone grant, 2019 · $100k
- FSFr Sopocko Hospice Vilnius Lithuanione grant, 2018 · $100k
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.
1 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. 1 of the 28 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Adam M Bak Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adam M Bak Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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