· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHESTER COUNTY | $10,000 |
| OPEN HEARTH INC | $10,000 |
| SPRINGFORD AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| PHOENIXVILLE AREA SENIOR CENTER | $10,000 |
| ORION COMMUNITIES | $10,000 |
| BRUSH WITH THE LAW | $9,000 |
| CITIZEN ADVOCACY OF CHESTER COUNTY | $9,000 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL | $9,000 |
| TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW | $8,000 |
| MUSICOPIA | $8,000 |
| SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $7,500 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 27 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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bard Robert L & Agnes Cook Bard-Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bard Robert L & Agnes Cook Bard-Tr. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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