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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIVEDIRECTLY INC$15,000
CAMFED USA FOUNDATION$15,000
ST MARY'S FOOD BANK$15,000
BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC$15,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$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
LITERARY AND PROLOGUE SOCIETY OF THE SOUTHWEST$10,000
NOURISH$10,000
WATERAID AMERICA INC$10,000
FIRST PLACE AZ$10,000
02The need
03

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:

Its 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 its 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
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.
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against -8% for those 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%
-8%

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
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

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

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • JF
    JACOBS FISHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BAN
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • RF
    REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -43%
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 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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank; 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 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. 19 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
9/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 F…REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR A…JACOBS & FISHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BAN: $15,000 · OtherJACOBS & FISHMAN SAN DIEGO…MGVP INC MOUNTAIN GORILLA VETERINARY PROJECT-GORILLA DOCTORS: $15,000 · OtherMGVP INC MOUNTAIN GORILLA …Individual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNARAL: $10,000 · OtherST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $90,000 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S FOOD BAN…Feeding America: $30,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding AmericaSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $15,000 · Food & NutritionSHARE FOOD PROGRAMJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $15,000 · Food & NutritionJACOBS & CUSHMAN S…BROAD 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $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 budgetWATERAID AMERICA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $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 budgetPAINT FOR A CURE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLiterary and Prologue Society of the Southwest: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

Arizona Community Fou…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Bainbridge Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bainbridge Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's 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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 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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