· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $535k
- $50k–250k55 grants · $6.5M
- $250k+20 grants · $9.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PINE FORGE ACADEMY | $1,000,000 |
| EDUCARE DC | $930,000 |
| DC ACTION FOR CHILDREN | $800,000 |
| BRYNMOR EARLY EDUCATION & PRESCHOOL | $650,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $550,000 |
| ADVENTHEALTH FOUNDATION CENTRAL FLORIDA | $550,000 |
| TOLEDO DAY NURSERY | $550,000 |
| PURPOSE BUILT COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION INC | $500,000 |
| DC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE | $400,000 |
| START EARLY | $350,000 |
| OPERATION CHILD CARE PROJECT | $338,000 |
| COMMUNITY COALITION OF SUSSEX VIRGINIA | $325,000 |
| DC EARLY LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC | $320,000 |
| PATH | $295,776 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $7.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Bainum Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
137 repeat relationships: 61 still active in FY2025, 76 since wound down; 45 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BDBOSTON DREAM ACADEMY2× · 2020–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +165% · 87% of their budget
- PPATH5× · 2020–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +18%
- EDEDUCARE DC3× · 2022–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +52%
Funded once
- HGHOME GROWNone grant, 2024 · $500k
- 4F4P FOODS INCone grant, 2023 · $300k
- USUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2020 · $250k
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.
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.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…
How this is measured
280 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. 280 of the 373 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BOSTON DREAM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds EDUCARE DC ↗
- Who funds DC ACTION FOR CHILDREN TODAY DC ACT ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds National Association For Family Child Care ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO DAY NURSERY ↗
- Who funds AGA KHAN FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds DC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION-US ↗
- Who funds DREAMING OUT LOUD INC ↗
- Who funds BRAC USA INC ↗
- Who funds DC Early Learning Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds PURPOSE BUILT COMMUNITIES FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds I-ACT ↗
- Who funds OPERATION CHILD CARE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds LIFT ORLANDO INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OneSky ↗
- Who funds REGINALD S LOURIE CENTER FOR INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bainum Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bainum Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Roca Inc: 78% of income from government
- Reginald S Lourie Center for Infants and Young Children Inc: 45% of income from government
- The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc: 33% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc: 19% of income from government
- The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc: 19% of income from government
- Pro Bono Counseling Project Inc: 8% of income from government
- Art With a Heart Inc: 4% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
- Beloved Community Services Corporation: 3% of income from government
- All Our Kin Inc: 1% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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