Virginia · Private foundation
Bader Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2024
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $32,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $430,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 42
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $80M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 12% of the organizations Bader Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $172k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 35 | $3.3M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $3.6M | 12% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $4.7M | 15% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $4.7M | 21% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $4.2M | 8% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $3.9M | 21% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $3.4M | 41% |
| FY2017 | 25 | $2.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Individual Rights | $3,302,713 | 8 | 39% |
| Family Reunion | $3,037,000 | 6 | 100% |
| Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc | $2,623,500 | 6 | 8% |
| Speech First Inc | $2,058,000 | 7 | 19% |
| National Parents Organization Inc | $1,628,000 | 8 | 66% |
| Stop Abuse for Everyone | $1,615,000 | 3 | 80% |
| Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty | $1,585,000 | 7 | 9% |
| Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute | $1,465,000 | 6 | 49% |
| The Becket Fund | $1,169,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Criminal Justice Legal Foundation | $1,168,000 | 8 | 37% |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bader Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 62 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · The Searle Freedom Trust · John William Pope Foundation · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · The 85 Fund · Holman Foundation Inc · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · The Seminar Network Inc · The Snider Foundation
How this is measured
About Bader Family Foundation
- How much does Bader Family Foundation give?
- Bader Family Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $3,343,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Bader Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (42%), Crime & Legal (21%), Human Services (20%).
- Who are Bader Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Center for Individual Rights ($3.3M), Family Reunion ($3.0M), Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc ($2.6M).
- Does Bader Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bader Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bader Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Bradley Impact Fund Inc, Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated.
- Where is Bader Family Foundation based?
- Bader Family Foundation is based in VA.
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