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Bastian Family Foundation at a glance

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Bastian Family Foundation

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.

$430k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$620kEducation$100kEnvironment$80kHousing & Shelter$50kHealth$20kPhilanthropy$15kScience & Tech$10kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $80k
  • $250k+1 grant · $350k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARROLLTON$350,000
FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN$20,000
MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$10,000
DAYS END HORSE FARM$10,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$10,000
PENN TECH COLLEGE$10,000
STEPPING STONES$10,000
CAMILLUS HOUSE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOSTON COLLEGE: $50k → 7%NorthEastern University: $10k → 16%PENN TECH COLLEGE: $10k → 12%Georgetown: $5k → 14%FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $30k → 15%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $10k → 7%DAYS END HORSE FARM: $10k → 6%STEPPING STONES: $10k → 8%PENN TECH COLLEGE: $10k → 12%LAB SCHOOL: $10k → 14%Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden: $30k → 15%MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%Lab School: $10k → 14%FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $20k → 15%CARROLLTON: $350k → 15%CARROLLTON: $170k → 15%Carrollton: $100k → 15%Camillus House: $30k → 15%CAMILLUS HOUSE: $10k → 15%JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%CAMILLUS HOUSE: $10k → 15%Coral Gables Community Foundation: $15k → 15%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$770k · 4 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$770k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-11%
+37%

Still filing today

50%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • C
    CARROLLTON
    3× · 2023–2025 · $620k
  • FT
    FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $80k · revenue -19%
  • CH
    CAMILLUS HOUSE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue -11%

Funded once

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +37%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +22%
  • LS
    Lab School
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
5
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
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
8
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
9
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
10
Baylor University

The mission of baylor university is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and christian commitment within a caring community.

Education
11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; the most unlike its peers is Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CARROLLTON: $620,024 · OtherCARROLLTONCAMILLUS HOUSE INC: $50,000 · OtherCAMILLUS HOUSE INC+7 more: $75,000 · Other+7 moreFAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC: $80,000 · EnvironmentFAIRCHILD…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationCORAL GABLES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Health
Other$745,024Environment$80,000Education$70,000Philanthropy$15,000Health$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCAMILLUS HOUSE INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORAL GABLES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAB SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Bastian Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bastian Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Camillus House Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jackson Health Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report 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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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