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Bainbridge Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$160k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

International$235kFood & Nutrition$210kHuman Services$120kHealth$95kPublic Safety & Disaster$90kHousing & Shelter$80kCivil Rights$35kAnimals$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMFED USA FOUNDATION$15,000
GIVEDIRECTLY INC$15,000
ST MARY'S FOOD BANK$15,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$15,000
BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC$15,000
JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK$15,000
VAYU GLOBAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$15,000
MGVP INC MOUNTAIN GORILLA VETERINARY PROJECT-GORILLA DOCTORS$15,000
WATERAID AMERICA INC$10,000
FIRST PLACE AZ$10,000
LITERARY AND PROLOGUE SOCIETY OF THE SOUTHWEST$10,000
NOURISH$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $15k → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $15k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$750k · 12 repeat orgs$170k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
9

Total granted

$750k
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
0%

Still filing today

92%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionInternationalHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterCivil RightsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CU
    CAMFED USA FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $105k · revenue +146%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +21%
  • SM
    ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • JF
    JACOBS & FISHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BAN
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
3
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
4
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…

5
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
6
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
7
Arizona Food Bank Network

Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.

Food & Nutrition
8
Waste Not Inc

Waste Not cultivates sustainable food systems that help people and the planet flourish. We do this by eliminating food waste and hunger through innovative community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
9
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
10
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
11
Philabundance

PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…

Food & Nutrition
12
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Ujenzi Charitable Trust. 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

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
8/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $105,000 · InternationalCAMFED USA FOUNDATIONWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $90,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCWATERAID AMERICA INC — $30,000 · InternationalWATERAID AMERICA INCBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $75,000 · OtherBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHT…Ujenzi Charitable Trust — $40,000 · OtherUjenzi Charitable TrustIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJACOBS & FISHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BAN — $15,000 · OtherJACOBS & FISHMAN SAN DIEGO…Individual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR A…MGVP INC MOUNTAIN GORILLA VETERINARY PROJECT-GORILLA DOCTORS — $15,000 · OtherMGVP INC MOUNTAIN GORILLA …JACOBS FISHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BAN — $15,000 · OtherJACOBS FISHMAN SAN DIEGO F…NARAL — $10,000 · OtherST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $90,000 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S FOOD BAN…Feeding America — $30,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding AmericaJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $15,000 · Food & NutritionJACOBS & CUSHMAN S…SHARE FOOD PROGRAM — $15,000 · Food & NutritionSHARE FOOD PROGRAMBROAD STREET MINISTRY — $75,000 · Human ServicesBROAD STREET MINIS…GIVEDIRECTLY INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INCNOURISHPHX — $30,000 · Human ServicesNOURISHPHXFIRST PLACE AZ — $80,000 · Housing & ShelterFIRST PLA…VAYU GLOBAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · HealthVAYU GLOB…NOURISH — $10,000 · HealthNOURISHPAINT FOR A CURE — $10,000 · HealthPAINT FOR…REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $10,000 · Civil RightsLiterary and Prologue Society of the Southwest — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
International$225,000Other$215,000Food & Nutrition$150,000Human Services$150,000Housing & Shelter$80,000Health$80,000Civil Rights$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $105,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST PLACE AZ — $80,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBROAD STREET MINISTRY — $75,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVAYU GLOBAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUjenzi Charitable Trust — $40,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetNOURISHPHX — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWATERAID AMERICA INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOURISH — $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiterary and Prologue Society of the Southwest — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPAINT FOR A CURE — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Bainbridge Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bainbridge Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bainbridge 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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