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Bainum Family 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.

$16M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
114
Grants FY2025
88
Organizations funded FY2024
45%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
58 to 88
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
21
Total assets, FY2025
$753M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Bainum Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving106$16M42%
FY202488$12M45%
FY202366$6.5M41%
FY202273$4.0M51%
FY202166$3.8M53%
FY202083$3.6M69%
FY201958$1.5M64%
FY201860$1.9M42%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$15MInternational$11MHuman Services$8.7MHealth$3.7MCommunity Improvement$3.0MCivil Rights$2.0MPhilanthropy$1.3MYouth Development$1.3MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
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RI
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NE
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MD
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AR
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NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
AL
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boston Dream Academy$2,100,000287%
Path$1,924,54250%
Georgia Cumberland Academy$1,900,0003n/a
Educare DC$1,630,00034%
DC Action for Children Today DC Act$1,600,00027%
International Rescue Committee INC$1,510,15090%
Global Fund for Children$1,300,00074%
National Association For Family Child Care$1,210,000330%
AdventHealth Foundation Inc$1,100,00021%
Toledo Day Nursery$1,100,000224%
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All grantees of Bainum Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boston Dream Academy$2,100,000287%
Path$1,924,54250%
Georgia Cumberland Academy$1,900,0003n/a
Educare DC$1,630,00034%
DC Action for Children Today DC Act$1,600,00027%
International Rescue Committee INC$1,510,15090%
Global Fund for Children$1,300,00074%
National Association For Family Child Care$1,210,000330%
AdventHealth Foundation Inc$1,100,00021%
Toledo Day Nursery$1,100,000224%
Pine Forge Academy$1,000,0001n/a
Aga Khan Foundation USA$934,41460%
DC Fiscal Policy Institute Inc$800,000215%
Donorschooseorg$729,95460%
Save The Children Federation Inc$700,10260%
United States Fund for Unicef$625,27060%
Global Campaign for Education-Us$605,000767%
Dreaming Out Loud Inc$600,00028%
Brac USA Inc$600,00031%
DC Early Learning Collaborative Inc$595,000334%
Lighthouse Central Florida Inc$536,11092%
Purpose Built Communities Foundationinc$510,00013%
Shenandoah Valley Academy$500,0002n/a
American Academy of Pediatrics$500,00050%
I-Act$493,317322%
Operation Child Care Project$488,000197%
Fusion Partnership Inc$480,00027%
Lift Orlando Inc$476,00033%
National Academy of Sciences$450,00030%
Catholic Relief Services$450,0003n/a
New America Foundation$450,00030%
OneSky$450,00033%
Reginald S Lourie Center for Infants and Young Children Inc$388,27722%
University of Maryland College Park Foundation Inc$375,00070%
Start Early$350,00010%
Fletcher Academy Inc$350,00022%
Community Coalition of Sussex$325,0001n/a
Firelight Foundation$322,21035%
Oneamerica$305,00091%
Florida Keys Healthy Start Coalition$300,555610%
4p Foods Inc$300,0001n/a
Vox Media LLC$300,0002n/a
El Nido Family Centers$292,55561%
Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation$275,39520%
Open Arms Perinatal Services$265,55592%
Compass Family Services$265,00050%
Education Pioneers$260,00025%
The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism$250,00020%
First Children's Finance$250,00013%
Florida Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc$250,0001n/a
Northern Illinois University Foundation$250,00010%
Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc$250,00020%
Enterprise Community Partners Inc$250,0001n/a
Vt Association for the Education of Young Children$250,00014%
Project Drawdown$250,00042%
Maryland Philanthropy Network$250,00021%
Community Resources for Children$234,55561%
Lincoln$232,50060%
World Forum Foundation$225,000218%
Generation Hope$210,00032%
Martha's Table Inc$200,30050%
Childfund International USA$200,00020%
Military Family Advisory Network Inc$200,00015%
Naples Adventist Christian School$187,2882n/a
Sound Child Care Solutions$175,00041%
Washington State Child Care Resource & Referral Network Dba Child Care Aware Wa$175,00030%
Bread for the City Inc$165,00030%
Wu Yee Children's Services$155,00040%
The Urban Institute$150,0001n/a
Think Small$150,00011%
National League of Cities Institute Inc$150,00011%
All Our Kin Inc$150,0001n/a
Maranatha$150,0001n/a
Capita Social Inc$150,0001n/a
Seattle University$147,50030%
Ummeed Child Development Fund Inc$145,000441%
Refugee & Immigrant Transitions$145,00042%
Path Partnerships$125,00027%
Results Educational Fund Inc$125,00022%
Health Federation of Philadelphia Inc$125,00020%
Kindred Inc$123,09617%
Developing Communities Inc$119,000640%
Washington Area Women's Foundation$115,00024%
Canal Alliance$115,00030%
Immigration Institute of the Bay Area$115,00031%
Homeless Prenatal Program Inc$105,55531%
Page 15 Inc$100,000210%
Powerful Voices$100,00045%
Baltimore Junior Academy$100,0001n/a
New Image Youth Center$100,00024%
DC Digital Collective Inc$100,000136%
Georgetown University$100,00010%
Eat Real Certified Inc$100,0001n/a
The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc$100,00011%
Cherry Hill Strong Inc$100,0001n/a
The Good Food Institute Inc$100,00010%
Alliance for Justice$100,00012%
American Heart Association Inc$100,00010%
Beloved Community Services Corporation$100,0001n/a
Lift Inc$95,00011%
Art With a Heart Inc$95,00032%
Bellwether Education Partners Inc$95,00010%
Youth Invest Partners Inc$75,00014%
National Council of Nonprofits$75,00010%
Freshfarm Markets$75,00011%
Bright Beginnings Inc$75,00021%
St Helena Preschool For All Inc$75,000330%
National Center for Science Education$70,55524%
Pro Bono Counseling Project Inc$70,00033%
Bay Area Community Resources Inc$65,00020%
Seattle Colleges Foundation$62,50021%
Dumbarton Arts and Education Inc$60,00025%
Ryse Inc$55,55511%
Literacy Lab$55,555111%
International Child Resource Institute$55,55510%
United Planning Organization$50,05020%
Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers$50,00011%
The Medstar-Georgetown Medical Center Inc$50,00010%
Hidden Genius Project$50,0001n/a
Healthy Start Coalition of Orange County Inc$50,00011%
Center for Rural Affairs$50,00010%
Echoing Green Inc$50,00020%
University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc$50,00010%
West Virginia University Foundation Inc$50,00010%
National Children's Center Inc$50,00010%
American Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation$50,00010%
New Hope for Kids Inc$50,00014%
Children's National$50,00017%
Homeless Children's Playtime Project$50,00021%
St Francis Neighborhood Center$50,00013%
Community of Hope$50,00010%
Madison Academy$48,5002n/a
Beltsville Adventist School$45,0012n/a
Orange County School Readiness Coalition Inc$40,00010%
Roca Inc$40,00010%
Restore a Child Inc$40,00023%
Pathways LA$40,00010%
Loudoun Education Foundation Inc$38,00021%
Southeast Children's Fund Inc$36,00011%
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations$35,0001n/a
San Francisco Food Bank$35,00010%
Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa$32,50011%
Black Girls Code Inc$30,00010%
Help a Mother Out$30,00011%
DC Preparatory Academy$25,00010%
Givedirectly Inc$25,00010%
DC Greens Inc$25,00011%
Youth Alive$25,00010%
A Home Within Inc$25,0001n/a
Eagle Academy Public Charter School$25,00010%
Para Los Ninos$25,00010%
The Washington School of Psychiatry$25,00013%
Life Pieces to Masterpieces$25,00011%
DC Scholars Public Charter School Inc$25,00010%
Polaris Project$25,0001n/a
City Surf Project$20,00012%
Wiley Center for Speech and Language Development$20,00022%
The Funders Network Inc$20,00011%
Rez Refuge Ministries Inc$17,50014%
International Surf Therapy Organization$15,000111%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc$12,50010%
National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc$12,0001n/a
Northeastern Academy$10,1551n/a
Success Academy Charter Schools Inc$10,00010%
Food on Foot$10,00010%
Foster & Adoptive Parent Advocacy Center$10,00012%
Downtown Women's Center$8,00010%
Jenesse Center Inc$7,00010%
Surfing Moms$5,10029%
Cardinal Hayes High School$5,0001n/a
Northern Virginia Conservation Trust$5,00010%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$62550%
Capital Area Food Bank Inc$55030%
Metropolitan Organization Countering Sexual Assault$50050%
Operation Breakthrough Inc$50050%
Some Inc$49840%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$47030%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$43060%
American Parkinson Disease Assoc$40020%
Rock Recovery Inc$40030%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$40040%
University of the South$37760%
Orlando Health Foundation Inc$35040%
Orphan Foundation of America D/B/A Foster Care to Success Foundation$35030%
Trinity Academy of Portland$30320%
The House of Ruth Maryland Inc$30030%
Ellicott City Historic District Partnership LLC$30010%
The Friends of the Oakland Public Library$30030%
Ramah Junior Academy$3004n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$28010%
House of Ruth$27540%
Union College$25330%
Greater DC Diaper Bank$22510%
The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc$22510%
Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc$20010%
San Francisco Friends School$20010%
Iowa State University Foundation$20020%
Equal Justice Initiative$20010%
Bethany House of Northern Virginia Inc$20010%
Center for Racial Justice in Education Inc$20010%
Harvesters - the Community Food Network$20020%
The Bail Project Inc$20010%
Evergreen School Inc$20020%
Chesapeake Montessori Foundation Inc$20010%
The Malala Fund$20020%
Whitman-Walker Clinic Inc$20020%
The Laurel Center Intervention for Domestic & Sexual Violence$20010%
Southern Adventist University$2001n/a
The Sentencing Project$20010%
Kind Inc$20010%
Depositing Empowerment Through Outreach and Urban$18010%
Horizons Greater Washington Inc$15010%
Archdiocese of St Paul and Minneapolis$1501n/a
Plan International USA Inc$15020%
Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)$15020%
Burtonsville Volunteer Fire Department Inc$15010%
Grassroot Soccer Inc$15020%
Children's Hospital Foundation$15010%
Lifeline Animal Project Inc$1251n/a
Women for Women International$12520%
Maret School Inc$12520%
Yale University$1252n/a
Providence Student Union$12010%
Pasadena Humane$1161n/a
United Way of Greater Houston$10510%
Lost Dog Rescue Foundation$10310%
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities$10310%
Save the Redwoods League$10220%
Rainbow Place Shelter for Homeless Women Inc$10010%
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc$10010%
Maui United Way$10010%
The Coral Reef Alliance$10010%
Congregational Community Action Project Inc$10010%
The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College$10010%
Capital Area Food Bank Foundation$10010%
Human Rights Campaign Foundation$10020%
Courtneys House Inc$1001n/a
Severn School Inc$10010%
Avila University$10010%
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington DC Inc$10010%
Smile Train Inc$10010%
Rural Dog Rescue$10010%
Arizae Foundation$10010%
Concrete Jungle Inc$9010%
Pro Publica Inc$8020%
Dickinson College$7510%
Community Animal Rescue Effort Inc$752n/a
American University$6610%
Meals on Wheels America$5210%
Chicago Parks Foundation$5110%
The African American Policy Forum Inc$5110%
Baltimore Squashwise Inc$5110%
Calvert Hall College of Baltimore City$511n/a
Suicide Awareness Voices of Education$5010%
Feeding America$5010%
Right to Be Inc$5010%
Alices Kids Inc$5010%
Altadena Nursery School Inc$5010%
Human Rights Campaign Inc$5010%
Split This Rock Inc$5010%
Heifer International Foundation$5010%
Duke University$4520%
Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy$3610%
The Queens Library Foundation Inc$3510%
Blue Ridge Conservancy$3310%
Youth Service Opportunities Project$3010%
Sandy Spring Museum Inc$3010%
Village Shalom Inc$3010%
Cool Effect Inc$2610%
Minnesota Freedom Fund$2610%
Teach for America Inc$2510%
Mamatoto Village Inc$2510%
Horsepower Inc$2510%
Rockville Musical Theatre$251n/a
Blood Cancer United Inc$2510%
Imagination Stage Inc$2510%
Medical Debt Resolution Inc$2510%
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$2510%
Montgomery Housing Partnership Inc$2510%
The Masonic Foundation of the District of Columbia$2010%
Badass Animal Rescue Inc$2010%
United Way of Genesee County$1510%
Democracy Now Productions Inc$101n/a
Beloved Asheville$510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 75 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.8M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Bainum Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoston Dream Academy: $2,100,000 over 2y, 87% of budgetPath: $1,924,542 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEducare DC: $1,630,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetDC Action for Children Today DC Act: $1,600,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,510,150 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Fund for Children: $1,300,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetNational Association For Family Child Care: $1,210,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetAdventHealth Foundation Inc: $1,100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetToledo Day Nursery: $1,100,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetAga Khan Foundation USA: $934,414 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDC Fiscal Policy Institute Inc: $800,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetDonorschooseorg: $729,954 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $700,102 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $625,270 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Campaign for Education-Us: $605,000 over 7y, 67% of budgetDreaming Out Loud Inc: $600,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetBrac USA Inc: $600,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetDC Early Learning Collaborative Inc: $595,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetLighthouse Central Florida Inc: $536,110 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetPurpose Built Communities Foundationinc: $510,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetAmerican Academy of Pediatrics: $500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetI-Act: $493,317 over 3y, 22% of budgetOperation Child Care Project: $488,000 over 1y, 97% of budgetFusion Partnership Inc: $480,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetLift Orlando Inc: $476,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetNational Academy of Sciences: $450,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew America Foundation: $450,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOneSky: $450,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetReginald S Lourie Center for Infants and Young Children Inc: $388,277 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetUniversity of Maryland College Park Foundation Inc: $375,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetStart Early: $350,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFletcher Academy Inc: $350,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetFirelight Foundation: $322,210 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetOneamerica: $305,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetFlorida Keys Healthy Start Coalition: $300,555 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetEl Nido Family Centers: $292,555 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetInnovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation: $275,395 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOpen Arms Perinatal Services: $265,555 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetCompass Family Services: $265,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetEducation Pioneers: $260,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetThe Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism: $250,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFirst Children's Finance: $250,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNorthern Illinois University Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc: $250,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVt Association for the Education of Young Children: $250,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetProject Drawdown: $250,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMaryland Philanthropy Network: $250,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCommunity Resources for Children: $234,555 over 6y, 0.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC57× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Gates Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · WK Kellogg Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · East Bay Community Foundation · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States 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.

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About Bainum Family Foundation

How much does Bainum Family Foundation give?
Bainum Family Foundation reported 114 grants totaling $16,080,816 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 88 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Bainum Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), International (21%), Human Services (17%).
Who are Bainum Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boston Dream Academy ($2.1M), Path ($1.9M), Georgia Cumberland Academy ($1.9M).
Does Bainum Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bainum Family 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 Bainum Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation.
Where is Bainum Family Foundation based?
Bainum Family Foundation is based in DC.

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 373 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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