· Private foundation
Bardes Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $163k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BATH & TENNIS HISTORIC BLDG PRESER FDTN | $30,000 |
| SRBA HISTORIC BUILDING & ENVIRON PRES FDTN | $30,000 |
| CINCINNATI BALLET | $17,550 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $13,000 |
| THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL | $11,950 |
| THE ROYAL POINCIANA CHAPEL | $10,000 |
| RED SNEAKERS FOR OAKLEY | $10,000 |
| ARTSWAVE | $10,000 |
| ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $10,000 |
| PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| HENRY MORRISON FLAGLER MUSEUM | $6,000 |
| BUCCAN PROVISIONS NON-PROFIT CORP | $5,000 |
| GEORGETOWN MISSION & MINISTRY | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–20, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
37 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- TSTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL7× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +47%
- PBPALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $92k · revenue +85%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY4× · 2018–2021 · $82k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- TFTHE FDTN TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISMone grant, 2023 · $5k
- CFCINCINNATI FILMone grant, 2023 · $4k
- EMEARTH MEDICINE INSTITUTE TAOS FDTNone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Education and Public Service Mission: Rollins College educates students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, empowering graduates to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers. We are committed to liberal arts ethos and…
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…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
See Disclosure Above.
The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Preservation Society of Newport County and the most unlike its peers is Buccan Provisions Non-Profit Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 56 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 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. 32 of the 50 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 THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BUCCAN PROVISIONS NON-PROFIT CORP ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Newport Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HENRY MORRISON FLAGLER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds RED SNEAKERS FOR OAKLEY INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT FILM INC ↗
- Who funds The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds THE LORD'S PLACE INC ↗
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: Olb Foundation Inc · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Hamilton Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Anne and David B Ford Jr Foundation · The de Ramel Foundation · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · G Peabody & Rose Gardner Charitable Tr · Borchardt Family Foundation Inc · Gruben Charitable Foundation
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 Bardes Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Palm Beach Day Academy Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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