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Banmarkay Charitable 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, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
Anchored by a single position: about 91% of reported assets are held in Varadero International Ltd.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRINCETON AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PRINCETON MOBILE FOOD PANTRY | $12,500 |
| INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY | $10,000 |
| SAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS | $5,225 |
| WHYY | $5,000 |
| WNYC | $5,000 |
| PRINCETON COMMUNITY HOUSING | $5,000 |
| PRESIDENT & TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| DICKINSON COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| EASEL ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| HOUSING INITIATIVES OF PRINCETON | $2,500 |
| MCCARTER THEATRE | $2,500 |
| SO PERCUSSION | $2,500 |
| HI-TOPS PRINCETON | $2,500 |
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 (FY23–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +9% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +1%
DICKINSON COLLEGE3× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +20%
SAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS3× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- PSPRINCETON SYMPHONYone grant, 2023 · $3k
HITOPS INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +2%
PORTLAND ART MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +5%
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.
The mission of the princeton symphony orchestra is to leverage the power of live music to uplift the human experience.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Princeton ballet society's mission is to nurture a lifelong love of dance and lift the collective spirit through excellent, relevant, and accessible artistic and educational programs, with a focus on classical ballet.
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
To offer accessible, high-quality performing arts education that sparks personal growth and builds inclusive communities. its vision is to transform performing arts education in an inclusive community accessible to all.
Pratt is an institute, an experience, and an idea. what started as a radical experiment to expand access to creative careers is now a community of 5,137 grad and undergrad students working across 48 programs with 1,200 dedicated faculty.…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Laws of the state of new jersey. the mission of the organization is to perform choral masterworks and other works of the choral literature with energy, passion, and uncompromising artistic excellence. the organization believes in the power…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 28 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
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 Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON MOBILE FOOD PANTRY INC A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON COMMUNITY HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds EASEL ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds SO PERCUSSION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING INITIATIVES OF PRINCETON CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GREATER PORTLAND LANDMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
- Who funds HITOPS INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Portland Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON GARDEN THEATER 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: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Banmarkay Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Banmarkay Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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