New Jersey · Private foundation
Bains Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $36k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Bains Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $36k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $28k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $35k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $28k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $29k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $13k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $22k | 86% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $7k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aats Foundation | $60,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Guru Nanak Mission Inc | $50,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Thoracic Surgery Foundation | $20,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Children's Hope India LLC | $17,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Nargis Dutt Memorial Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Pratham USA | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Aiimsonians of America Inc Attn Gurdesh Bedi | $1,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| International Human Benefit Servicesinc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($47k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bains Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Bains Foundation
- How much does Bains Foundation give?
- Bains Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $36,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bains Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (52%), Religion (32%), International (9%).
- Who are Bains Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Aats Foundation ($60k), Guru Nanak Mission Inc ($50k), The Thoracic Surgery Foundation ($20k).
- Does Bains Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bains Foundation 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 Bains Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Bains Foundation based?
- Bains Foundation is based in NJ.
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