Pennsylvania · 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.
- $164k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 25
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Bard Robert L & Agnes Cook Bard-Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $164k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $145k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $142k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $146k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $135k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $131k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $118k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orion Communities Inc | $82,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Spring-Ford Area Historical Society | $70,993 | 7 | n/a |
| Royersford Free Public Library | $68,774 | 7 | 14% |
| Open Hearth Inc | $60,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Community Music School of Collegeville Ltd | $48,200 | 7 | 1% |
| Citizen Advocacy of Chester County | $46,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Camphill Village Kimberton Hills Inc | $43,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Senior Adult Activity Center of the Phoenixville Area | $42,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Musicopia Inc | $40,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Project Outreach | $39,000 | 4 | 8% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orion Communities Inc | $82,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Spring-Ford Area Historical Society | $70,993 | 7 | n/a |
| Royersford Free Public Library | $68,774 | 7 | 14% |
| Open Hearth Inc | $60,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Community Music School of Collegeville Ltd | $48,200 | 7 | 1% |
| Citizen Advocacy of Chester County | $46,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Camphill Village Kimberton Hills Inc | $43,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Senior Adult Activity Center of the Phoenixville Area | $42,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Musicopia Inc | $40,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Project Outreach | $39,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Trellis for Tomorrow | $38,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Meals on Wheels of Chester County | $37,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Spring City Free Public Library | $34,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Norristown Zoological Society | $29,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Brush With the Law | $23,000 | 4 | n/a |
| RSVP Volunteers | $23,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Health Care Access | $23,000 | 7 | 1% |
| America Responds With Love Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 98% |
| Spring-Ford Educational Foundation | $4,500 | 3 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($219k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bard Robert L & Agnes Cook Bard-Tr supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 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
How this is measured
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About Bard Robert L & Agnes Cook Bard-Tr
- How much does Bard Robert L & Agnes Cook Bard-Tr give?
- Bard Robert L & Agnes Cook Bard-Tr reported 19 grants totaling $163,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 25 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Bard Robert L & Agnes Cook Bard-Tr fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Housing & Shelter (14%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are Bard Robert L & Agnes Cook Bard-Tr's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Orion Communities Inc ($82k), Spring-Ford Area Historical Society ($71k), Royersford Free Public Library ($69k).
- Does Bard Robert L & Agnes Cook Bard-Tr fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bard Robert L & Agnes Cook Bard-Tr 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 Bard Robert L & Agnes Cook Bard-Tr?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, Chester County Community Foundation, The Gordon Charter Foundation.
- Where is Bard Robert L & Agnes Cook Bard-Tr based?
- Bard Robert L & Agnes Cook Bard-Tr is based in PA.
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