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Bannon Foundation at a glance

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Bannon 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.

$192k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$493kRecreation & Sports$224kArts & Culture$100kHuman Services$54kCrime & Legal$40kPublic Benefit$13kScience & Tech$12kAnimals$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $172k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY$110,000
IPTAY$62,000
ROPER MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER ASSOCIATION$5,000
THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE$5,000
MISSOULA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$2,000
GREENVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
MAULDIN MIRACLE LEAGUE$1,500
SAFE HARBOR$1,500
HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAFE HARBOR: $3k → 22%SAFE HARBOR: $2k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$904k · 16 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
16

Total granted

$904k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+19%

Still filing today

69%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsHealthYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • I
    IPTAY
    5× · 2019–2024 · $222k · revenue +18%
  • AY
    AMERICAN YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS
    3× · 2019–2021 · $90k · revenue +33%
  • FU
    FURMAN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2019–2023 · $40k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF GRAND FORKS
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • GT
    GREENVILE TECH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • SE
    ST ELIZABETH ANN SETON CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals
2
Musc Strategic Ventures

To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…

Health
3
Humane Society of South Mississippi

The mission of the humane society is to save and enhance the lives of pets through cooperative and innovative approaches to adoption, spay/neuter, sheltering and community engagement.

Animals
4
Humane Society of Charlotte Inc

Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.

Animals
5
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

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6
South Carolina Council On Competitiveness

The south carolina council on competitiveness is a nonpartisan, business-led non-profit organization committed to advancing the long term competitiveness of south carolina through actionable research, support of industry clusters and…

Community Improvement
7
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
8
Disability Rights South Carolina Inc

To furnish protection and advocacy services to south carolinians with disabilities

Civil Rights
9
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.

Arts & Culture
10
University of South Carolina School of Medicine Educational Trust

The educational trust operates exclusively for the benefit of, and to carry out the purposes of, the university of south carolina school of medicine and the greater university of south carolina. its main purposes are to augment and aid…

Education
11
Children's Trust of South Carolina

To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Human Services
12
Southeastern Universities Research Association Inc

Sura's mission is to advance collaborative research and education and to strengthen the scientific capabilities of its members and our nation.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greer Community Ministries Inc; the most unlike its peers is Service Dogs for Veterans. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $379,000 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITYGREENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL: $30,500 · OtherGREENVILLE HIGH SCHOOLGRAND FORKS SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $30,000 · OtherGRAND FORKS SHERIFF'S OFFICETHE SALVATION ARMY: $28,000 · Other+18 more: $73,500 · Other+18 moreIPTAY: $222,000 · Youth DevelopmentIPTAYAMERICAN YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS: $90,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN YO…CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S …FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $39,500 · EducationGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 · EducationUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE LITTLE WHITE HOUSE: $15,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $2,000 · HealthSERVICE DOGS FOR VETERANS: $9,000 · Public BenefitSAFE HARBOR: $4,000 · Human ServicesGREER COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBOR INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesMIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$541,000Youth Development$222,000Arts & Culture$100,000Education$68,500Health$17,000Public Benefit$9,000Human Services$7,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIPTAY: $222,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS: $90,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $39,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LITTLE WHITE HOUSE: $15,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetROPER MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSERVICE DOGS FOR VETERANS: $9,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HARBOR: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS SEARCH & RESCUE INC: $3,500 over 1y, 20% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOULA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAFE HARBOR INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINA LOVING HOUND RESCUE: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Duke Energy FoundationDaniel-Mickel Foundat…United Community Bank…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Duke Energy FoundationNC19.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · United Community Bank Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bannon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bannon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Bannon Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bannon 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.

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 36 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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