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Bancroft Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$176k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$4.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$101kEnvironment$85kAnimals$61kRecreation & Sports$31kHealth$31kEducation$7kPhilanthropy$5kHuman Services$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of Bancroft Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rose Haven Cic$100,00022%
Pixie Project Inc$50,00022%
Appalachian Trail Conservancy$40,00010%
The Forest Park Conservancy$30,00023%
Pacific Crest Trail Association$20,00010%
Crested Butte Mountain Bike Association$10,00011%
Willamette Riverkeeper$10,00011%
Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc$10,00010%
Friends of the Columbia Gorge$5,00010%
Hoffman Institute Foundation$4,00020%
Alices Kids Inc$3,00010%
Oregon Parks Forever$1,00010%
Path Home$50010%
Ultimate Impact Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($34k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bancroft Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRose Haven Cic: $100,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPixie Project Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetAppalachian Trail Conservancy: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Forest Park Conservancy: $30,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetPacific Crest Trail Association: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCrested Butte Mountain Bike Association: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWillamette Riverkeeper: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBird Alliance of Oregon Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Columbia Gorge: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHoffman Institute Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlices Kids Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOregon Parks Forever: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPath Home: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUltimate Impact Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 14.

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.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR18.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Texas Instruments Foundation · D27 Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · Deacon Charitable Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Ibm International 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.

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How do I get to Bancroft Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bancroft 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.

About Bancroft Foundation

How much does Bancroft Foundation give?
Bancroft Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $176,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Bancroft Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (31%), Environment (26%), Animals (19%).
Who are Bancroft Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Rose Haven Cic ($100k), Pixie Project Inc ($50k), Appalachian Trail Conservancy ($40k).
Does Bancroft 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 Bancroft Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust, Texas Instruments Foundation.
Where is Bancroft Foundation based?
Bancroft Foundation is based in OR.

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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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