How much does Bachmann Strauss Family Fund give?

Bachmann Strauss Family Fund reported 109 grants totaling $827,225 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 68 and 108 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Bachmann Strauss Family Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (31%), Arts & Culture (30%), Education (20%).

Who are Bachmann Strauss Family Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research ($677k), New York City Ballet Inc ($513k), Mount Sinai Health System Inc ($309k).

Does Bachmann Strauss Family Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Bachmann Strauss Family Fund 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 Bachmann Strauss Family Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, AC Israel Foundation Inc.

Where is Bachmann Strauss Family Fund based?

Bachmann Strauss Family Fund is based in NY.

Bachmann Strauss Family Fund

Bachmann Strauss Family Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

Bachmann Strauss Family Fund

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.

$827k

Granted FY2024still arriving

109

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$136k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.4MArts & Culture$1.4MEducation$916kRecreation & Sports$213kPhilanthropy$157kReligion$133kInternational$129kHuman Services$85kOther$0

02FY2024 · 109 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k85 grants · $156k
$10k–50k20 grants · $333k
$50k–250k4 grants · $338k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
The Michael J Fox Foundation	$135,500
Norton Museum of Art	$85,000
Tree of Life Inc	$60,000
New York City Ballet	$57,800
Community Roots Charter School	$32,500
The Society of the Four Arts	$25,000
Mount Sinai Hospital	$25,000
Therapeutic Adventures Inc	$25,000
American Friends of Chicken Shed	$24,525
The Spence School	$22,000
The Rockefeller University	$21,000
Montefiore Medical Center	$20,000
New York Road Runners	$16,000
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum & Foundation	$15,000
Mount Sinai Crystal Party	$15,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $361k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.2M · 147 repeat orgs$385k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

147 repeat relationships: 81 still active in FY2024, 66 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

147

144

Total granted

$4.2M

$321k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+24%

Still filing today

71%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
7× · 2018–2024 · $677k · revenue +479%
NY
NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $513k · revenue +21%
MS
MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC
6× · 2017–2022 · $309k · revenue +90%

Funded once

ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +39%
CR
Community Roots
one grant, 2019 · $30k
GC
GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +46%

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.

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

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

New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education

Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

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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University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry Street Settlement; the most unlike its peers is American Airpower Museum Co Cockpit Cpt Usa Llc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

206 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 206 of the 322 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

205/206

Grantees still filing

146/206

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$1,195,108Health$917,000Education$858,250Other$855,075Human Services$472,250International$112,500Philanthropy$109,850

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY28.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · AC Israel Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Warburg Pincus Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Dalia and Larry Leeds Family Foundation · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Peek Family Foundation Inc

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 Bachmann Strauss Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bachmann Strauss Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

17get no government money at all

42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely 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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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