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Bashambu Family Foundation at a glance

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Bashambu Family 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.

$66k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$46k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$183kInternational$81kHealth$12kHuman Services$8kEmployment$5kFood & Nutrition$3kArts & Culture$2kYouth Development$2k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$45,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American India Foundation$45,500
Head Royce School$20,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Solvatten Charitable Foundation USA: $100 → 8%Girls Who Code: $2k → 17%Women In Product: $5k → 8%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.
$278k · 6 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$278k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+5%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthPublic Safety & DisasterEmploymentArts & CultureOther
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

  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    4× · 2020–2023 · $115k · revenue +44%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $81k · revenue +110%
  • TH
    THE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $64k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • WI
    WOMEN IN PRODUCT
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -41%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +12%
  • SF
    San Francisco Girls Chorus Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +45%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

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3
United States Naval Institute

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.

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4
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
5
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
6
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
University of New Haven

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…

Education
9
Uc Berkeley Center for Executive Education

UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education ("CEE") is a nonprofit public benefit corporation dedicated to promoting and advancing education through its executive education programs for corporate and institutional clients seeking continuing…

Education
10
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
11
San Francisco University High School

At san franicisco university high school, we engage our community of diverse voices in a transformational experience that embraces the spirited pursuit of learning and empowers purpose larger than self.

Education
12
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc; the most unlike its peers is Solvatten Charitable Foundation Usa. 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

14 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.

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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $115,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL…+1 more: $2,000 · EducationTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $80,500 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATIONTHE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL: $64,102 · OtherTHE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOLTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $4,100 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSI…+2 more: $2,500 · OtherBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 · HealthEast Bay Agency for Children: $6,000 · HealthWOMEN IN PRODUCT: $5,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human ServicesSan Francisco Girls Chorus Inc: $2,100 · Arts & CultureJUMA VENTURES INC: $2,000 · Employment
Education$117,000Public Safety & Disaster$80,500Other$70,702Health$16,000Human Services$7,100Arts & Culture$2,100Employment$2,000

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 budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $115,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $80,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL: $64,102 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEast Bay Agency for Children: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN IN PRODUCT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $4,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Girls Chorus Inc: $2,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUMA VENTURES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSolvatten Charitable Foundation USA: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The San Francisco Fou…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The San Francisco FoundationCA13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Bashambu Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bashambu Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 14 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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