· Private foundation
Bard Robert L & Agnes Cook Bard-Tr
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $93k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMPHILL VILLAGE KIMBERTON HILLS | $12,000 |
| ROYERSFORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $11,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| PROJECT OUTREACH | $10,000 |
| OPEN HEARTH INC | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHESTER COUNTY | $10,000 |
| SPRINGFORD AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| PHOENIXVILLE AREA SENIOR CENTER | $10,000 |
| ORION COMMUNITIES | $10,000 |
| CITIZEN ADVOCACY OF CHESTER COUNTY | $9,000 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL | $9,000 |
| BRUSH WITH THE LAW | $9,000 |
| MUSICOPIA | $8,000 |
| TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW | $8,000 |
| SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
25 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- OCORION COMMUNITIES INC7× · 2019–2025 · $82k · revenue +43%
- RFROYERSFORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY7× · 2019–2025 · $69k · revenue +20%
- OHOPEN HEARTH INC7× · 2019–2025 · $60k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $12k
- DADAIKON ADULT DAY SERVICESone grant, 2019 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
A welcoming community center that provides information and equitable access to space, collections, materials, programs and services that enrich the quality of life and facilitate lifelong learning.
To provide day programming services that will assist people to learn skills in order to live independently.
Springwell helps individuals improve their quality of life and reduce their need for residential care by helping them access community resources. springwell works with individuals directly as well as with government agencies, health…
The mission of the Sewickley Public Library is to provide lifelong learning oppurtunities to the children and adults of the greater Quaker Valley Community.
Montgomery county norristown public library, a gateway to lifelong learning, provides convenient access to resources that inform, educate, entertain, and enrich people's lives.
To assist participants in Mercer County, NJ in maintaining independence, dignity, health & well-being by providing comprehensive nutrition services and helping ease social isolation.
Public library services
The mission of the washington county free library system is to continually improve our service to the public by:* providing the public with free access to library materials in a variety of formats* promoting community enrichment, economic…
The corporation's mission includes, but is not limited to, combatingcommunity deterioration within chinatown; preserving and developingthe chinatown community; leading the community in neighborhoodplanning, considering land use, and…
The Selbyville Public Library provides free access to information and library materials to residents and visitors to Sussex County in the State of Delaware.
Public lending library
Provides free library services to residents of pike county, pennsylvania
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orion Communities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Camphill Village Kimberton Hills Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ORION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ROYERSFORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEARTH INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF COLLEGEVILLE LTD ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN ADVOCACY OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CAMPHILL VILLAGE KIMBERTON HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds Senior Adult Activity Center of the Phoenixville Area ↗
- Who funds MUSICOPIA INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SPRING CITY FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds NORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RSVP Volunteers ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE ACCESS ↗
- Who funds AMERICA RESPONDS WITH LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds SPRING-FORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Genuardi Family Foundation · Hankin Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Connelly Foundation · The Smith Foundation Aka the Hoxie Harrison Smith Foundation · The Arcadia Foundation · United Way of Chester County Inc · Pottstown Regional Community Foundation Fka Pottstown Area Health and Wellness
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bard Robert L & Agnes Cook Bard-Tr funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.