· Private foundation
Bavarian Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| 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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 13 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
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 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.
Public education on contemporary social issues and protection of the 1st amendment of the U.S. constitution.
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.
To inform and educate the American public on issues of national security and advocate for a strong national foreign policy that best serves the interests of the United States.
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…
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.
The Foundations Mission is to enhance our understanding of the Constitution and our constitutional history.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 56 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 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 NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR GUN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds 40 DAYS FOR LIFE ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bavarian Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bavarian Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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