· Private foundation
Bdt 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER | $25,000 |
| STUARTS OPERA HOUSE | $3,000 |
| THE OHIO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ATHENS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- NDNEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER4× · 2022–2025 · $85k · revenue +25%
The Ohio University Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +9%- CACOLUMBUS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SE OHIOgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +46%
- APALEXANDER PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
- GRGLOUSTER REVITALIZATION ORGANIZATIOone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -99%
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.
Preservation, Display and use of Historic buildings
The mission of the columbus indiana architectural archives is to collect, conserve and promote the use of records that document the architectural engineering and arts associated with built environments of columbus, indiana.
The organization was established to support the heritage fund - the community foundation of bartholomew county, inc., the city of columbus and bartholomew county in indiana by preserving and maintaining land and buildings of historic or…
Education of archaeological society
Revitalization of the area immediately adjacent to the ohio state university's main campus in columbus, ohio.
The mission of the clark county historical society is to collect, preerve, and interpret resources which provide understanding and appreciation of clark county's heritage, and to relate to the community's past to the present and its future.
To provide financial support to the columbus public library
To facilitate the collection, preservation and education of the jewish history of central ohio.
Local public journalism in athens ohio
To stabilize or increase property values in areas of Franklin County suffering from the effects of blighted, vacant, abandoned, tax-foreclosed or economically-stranded properties and to promote and facilitate rehabilitation, reutilization…
The foundation undertakes research, educates critical audiences and collaborates with allied partners to further the cause of public parks and recreation.
The Friends of the Ohio Theatre is a non profit 501c3 who's mission is to renovate,and restore, the Ohio Theatre in Lima, Ohio. The Ohio Theatre, located at 122 W North Street has been a Lima landmark for nearly one hundred years. Over the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Design Center and the most unlike its peers is Glouster Revitalization Organizatio. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 13 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 NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SE OHIO ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds STUARTS OPERA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds The Ohio University Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOUSTER REVITALIZATION ORGANIZATIO ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS CHAPTER THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS INC ↗
- Who funds ATHENS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF COLUMBUS AND FRANKLIN COUNTY METRO PARKS ↗
- Who funds ATHENS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Athens County Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Foundation for Appalachian Ohio · 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 Bdt Foundation 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.