How much did BAVARIAN FOUNDATION TRUST grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 97% of BAVARIAN FOUNDATION TRUST’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

pro-lifeindigentcatholic educationeducation youthchurch's apostolateunbiasednews

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k20 grants · $50k
$10k–50k5 grants · $115k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$290k

Total assets

Largest grants

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH$40,000
OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION CHURCH$29,900
LIFE SITE NEWS$20,000
STUDENTS FOR LIFE OF AMERICA$15,000
AMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION$10,000
VITT SERMER & ANDERSON FUNERAL$5,000
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR GUN RIGHTS$5,000
THOMAS MORE SOCIETY$5,000
ST ATHANASIUS CHURCH$4,000
ST THERESE ACADEMY$3,500
THE EPOCH TIMES ASSOCIATION INC$3,000
NKY RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FND$3,000
40 DAYS FOR LIFE$2,500
YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FND$2,500
MARY BETH FRIEDL$2,500

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 10%. 6% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

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.

Second Amendment Foundation

Education in support of gun rights

Civil Rights

Jewish Pro-Life Foundation Inc

Philanthropy

Freedom Foundation of America

Public Benefit

The Freedom Forum Inc

Philanthropy

Fourth Freedom Forum Inc

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Gun Owners of America Inc

To preserve, protect and defend the second amendment rights of gun owners, including promoting and developing a greater understanding and awareness regarding the importance and benefits of firearms ownership, and conducting education and…

Civil Rights

Protect Americans Now

Animals

Alabama Pro-Life Coalition

Educate the public on all issues relevant to abortion issues.

Civil Rights

Foundation for Life

Pro life education

Civil Rights

American Civil Liberties Union of

Preservation and promotion of civil rights and civil liberties.

Civil Rights

Home School Legal Defense Association

HSLDA defends and advances the constitutional rights of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms.

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Action for Life Inc

Action for life promotes, upholds, and supports efforts to protect the sanctity of life from conception to natural death through education, advocacy, and prayer as well as by supporting traditional family values.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thomas More Society and the most unlike its peers is The Epoch Times Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

7/8

Grantees still filing

8/8

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,481,942Civil Rights$20,000Arts & Culture$13,000Crime & Legal$5,000Education$2,500Philanthropy$1,000

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.

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA11.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organisation BAVARIAN FOUNDATION TRUST 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GUN OWNERS FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~21 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 521297380 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on GUN OWNERS FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 21 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Bavarian Foundation Trust?

Find your warmest path to Bavarian Foundation Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BAVARIAN FOUNDATION TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bavarian Foundation Trust?

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BAVARIAN FOUNDATION TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bavarian Foundation Trust?

More from the funding graph