Delaware · Private foundation
BAND 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.
- $7.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2024
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $133,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 41
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 19
- Total assets, FY2024
- $148M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations BAND Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 43 | $7.2M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $6.7M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $7.1M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $5.8M | 43% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $5.3M | 38% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $3.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maliasili Initiatives Inc | $4,616,000 | 6 | 19% |
| Wildlife Conservation Network Inc | $2,755,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Guardianorg Foundation | $2,050,000 | 6 | 29% |
| Austin Peay State University Foundation | $1,952,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Bat Conservation International | $1,500,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Manomet Inc | $1,250,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Xerces Society Inc | $975,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation | $925,000 | 6 | 2% |
| The Wyldlife Fund | $800,000 | 3 | 14% |
| California Academy of Sciences | $775,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 65 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
BAND Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Chicago Community Trust · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Walton Family Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · National Geographic Society · Marin Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Tides Foundation
How this is measured
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How do I get to BAND Foundation?
Find your warmest path to BAND 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 BAND Foundation
- How much does BAND Foundation give?
- BAND Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $7,220,536 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 41 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does BAND Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (44%), Animals (23%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are BAND Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Maliasili Initiatives Inc ($4.6M), Wildlife Conservation Network Inc ($2.8M), Guardianorg Foundation ($2.0M).
- Does BAND Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does BAND 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 BAND Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The Nature Conservancy.
- Where is BAND Foundation based?
- BAND Foundation is based in DE.
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