· Private foundation
Bavarian Foundation Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH | $40,000 |
| OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION CHURCH | $29,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| STUDENTS FOR LIFE OF AMERICA | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THOMAS MORE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR GUN RIGHTS | $5,000 |
| VITT SERMER & ANDERSON FUNERAL | $5,000 |
| ST ATHANASIUS CHURCH | $4,000 |
| ST THERESE ACADEMY | $3,500 |
| NKY RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FND | $3,000 |
| THE EPOCH TIMES ASSOCIATION INC | $3,000 |
| NOTRE DAME DE LA SALETTE BOYS ACDY | $2,500 |
| 40 DAYS FOR LIFE | $2,500 |
| YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FND | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 10% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 18 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, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k 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
- AOAMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +18%
- SFStudents for Life of America Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $34k · revenue +21%
- TETHE EPOCH TIMES ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- FIFoundation in Support of the Franciscan Sisters of the Hearts of Jesus and Marygraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue ×330
- CTChrist the King Churchone grant, 2021 · $40k
- STSt. Thomas Aquinas Seminaryone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
Freedom Fighters Foundation is a non-profit civil liberties organization dedicated to the core principles of constitutionally limited government, conservative family values, free markets and individual liberty. Our mission is to advance…
To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…
The organization works for the civil liberties of atheists and the total, absolute separation of government and religion.
Foundation for american freedom funds, promotes, sponsors, and facilitates independent nonpartisan educational and related activities dedicated to improving the lives of americans.
Develop and advocate for legislation, regulations and government programs to preserve the constitutional principle of separation between state and church, to advocate for the rights and views of nonbelievers, and to conduct research and…
To provide thoughtful, conservative solutions to the challenges presented by education, workforce, labor and employment issues.
To support the serious study of politics and political philosophy both online and on campus, with particular attention to the constitutional character of american government and the founding of the united states.
Public education on contemporary social issues and protection of the 1st amendment of the U.S. constitution.
Disseminate information and education about pertinent economic, social and governmental topics, via print, web and other media to educate the public about the principles of LIbertarianism.
Free speech for people works to renew democracy and the united states constitution for the people, not big money and corporate interests. the organization catalyzes and advances the movement to amend the u.s. constitution to overturn…
To keep church and state separate and to educate the public about nontheism
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Applied Conservative Leadership and the most unlike its peers is Gcs Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 61 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 AMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation in Support of the Franciscan Sisters of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED CONSERVATIVE LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR GUN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds St. Thomas Aquinas Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY SO ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 40 DAYS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds FREE SPEECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPOCH TIMES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GUN OWNERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Rational Economics and Education Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRST PRINCIPLES 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: Donors Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organization 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.
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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