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Bachman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$31k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Benefit$62kCommunity Improvement$56kEducation$33kReligion$33kArts & Culture$9kHealth$7kAnimals$6kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$730
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST THOMAS ESPISCOPAL CHURCH$10,000
CHRIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
SUN VALLEY POLICY FORUM$5,000
INDIAN HILL CHURCH$5,000
FRIENDS OF HOMELESS ANIMALS$500
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$20
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SUN VALLEY POLICY FORUM: $5k → 7%IDAHO FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%EPISCOPAL ACADEMY: $1k → 10%LIVING DESERT: $1k → 11%GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%PROJECT VERITAS: $2k → 9%WOOF DOG RESCUE: $5k → 17%JUDICAL WATCH: $1k → 14%BEAUTIFUL YOU: $500 → 11%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $11k → 14%TRELLIS SUPPORTIVE CARE FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%TEAM RIGGIE FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%PUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%LITTLE MIAMI STATE PARK: $1k → 6%Columbus Academy: $1k → 15%CINCINNATI ZOO: $500 → 16%SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY: $5k → 7%JAMES MADISON: $1k → 11%FRIENDS OF HOMELESS ANIMALS: $500 → 4%MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $1k → 6%LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $1k → 7%CHARLOTTESVILLE CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $1k → 8%COMMITTEE TO UNLEASH PROSPERITY: $50k → 8%ST BERNARD FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 10%SUN VALLEY POLICY FORUM: $3k → 7%IDAHO FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%PROJECT VERITAS: $1k → 9%INTERACTIVE MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%PRINCETON TORY: $1k → 11%INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES: $1k → 7%YMCA: $1k → 7%INDIAN HILL CHURCH: $8k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $3k → 8%ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%INDIAN HILL CHURCH: $5k → 16%CHARLOTTESVILLE CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $1k → 8%SUN VALLEY POLICY FORUM: $850 → 7%INDIAN HILL CHURCH: $5k → 16%INDIAN HILL CHURCH: $5k → 16%ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $10k → 7%CHRIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%ST THOMAS ESPISCOPAL CHURCH: $10k → 7%CISE: $1k → 16%ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $5k → 7%SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY: $2k → 7%SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY: $2k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MT
IL
MI
NY
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
KY
VA
MD
KS
NC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 30% of Bachman Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Bachman Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$67k · 9 repeat orgs$167k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
39

Total granted

$67k
$146k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+16%

Still filing today

56%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitHealthAnimalsCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SV
    SUN VALLEY POLICY FORUM INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $9k · revenue +782%
  • SV
    SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $4k · revenue +68%
  • EA
    Episcopal Academy
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • GA
    GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • UP
    UNLEASH PROSPERITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +49%
  • PU
    PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CLASSMATES FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
3
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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4
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
5
Institute for Conservation Leadership

To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.

Community Improvement
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
Pro Publica Inc

Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…

Arts & Culture
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
10
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
11
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
12
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Little Miami State Park Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 54 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/34
Grantees still filing
25/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE: $50,000 · OtherGOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTETHE INDIAN HILL CHURCH: $22,600 · OtherTHE INDIAN HILL CHURCHST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCHST THOMAS ESPISCOPAL CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherST THOMAS ESPISCOPAL CHURCHPRINCETON UNIVERSITY CLASSMATES FUND: $9,500 · OtherPRINCETON UNIVERSITY CLASSMATES FUND+27 more: $26,300 · Other+27 moreUNLEASH PROSPERITY INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitUNLEASH PROSPERITY INC+3 more: $2,500 · Public BenefitHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10,500 · EducationHILLSDALE COL…SUN VALLEY POLICY FORUM INC: $9,350 · EducationSUN VALLEY PO…AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY: $5,000 · EducationAMERICAN TRAN…Episcopal Academy: $2,600 · EducationEpiscopal Aca…THE COLUMBUS ACADEMY: $1,000 · Education+3 more: $1,020 · EducationThe Christ Hospital Foundation: $10,000 · HealthST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · HealthSt Elizabeth Medical Center Inc: $500 · HealthSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $4,020 · Arts & CultureMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $1,000 · Arts & CulturePRINCETON TORY INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $500 · Arts & CultureIDAHO FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Community ImprovementWOOF DOG RESCUE INC: $5,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF HOMELESS ANIMALS: $500 · Animals
Other$133,400Public Benefit$52,500Education$29,470Health$11,500Arts & Culture$6,520Community Improvement$6,000Animals$5,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNLEASH PROSPERITY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Christ Hospital Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY POLICY FORUM INC: $9,350 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetIDAHO FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWOOF DOG RESCUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetAMERICAN TRANSPARENCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $4,020 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT VERITAS: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEpiscopal Academy: $2,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCISE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTEGRATIVE MEDICINE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSt Elizabeth Medical Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELCOME HOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN MAJORITY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LITTLE MIAMI STATE PARK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOMELESS ANIMALS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Johnson Charitable Gi…The Greater Cincinnat…Louise Taft Semple Fo…Bradley Impact Fund I…Donors Trust IncNational Philanthropi…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…
Johnson Charitable Gift FundOH15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Donors Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bachman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bachman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bachman Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bachman Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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