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Bdt Foundation at a glance

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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.

$31k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Community Improvement$90kEducation$16kArts & Culture$14kHousing & Shelter$12kHealth$5kEnvironment$4kRecreation & Sports$2k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$397k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER$25,000
STUARTS OPERA HOUSE$3,000
THE OHIO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$2,000
ATHENS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
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 (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%HIGHLANDS NATURE SANCTUARY INC (DBA ARCH OF APPALACHIA): $2k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO: $5k → 15%STUARTS OPERA HOUSE: $3k → 15%ALEXANDER PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION: $10k → 18%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SE OHIO: $12k → 22%COLUMBUS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%STUARTS OPERA HOUSE: $3k → 15%THE OHIO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 22%COLUMBUS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%ATHENS CONSERVANCY: $2k → 22%THE COLUMBUS CHAPTER THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS INC: $2k → 15%THE OHIO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 22%NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER: $25k → 15%THE OHIO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 22%NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER: $20k → 15%ATHENS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1k → 22%NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER: $20k → 15%GLOUSTER REVITALIZATION ORGANIZATION: $5k → 22%NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER: $20k → 15%FRIENDS OF COLUMBUS AND FRANKLIN COUNTY METRO PARKS: $2k → 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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$102k · 4 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$102k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+61%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • ND
    NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER
    4× · 2022–2025 · $85k · revenue +25%
  • The Ohio University Foundation
    3× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +9%
  • CA
    COLUMBUS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SE OHIOgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +46%
  • AP
    ALEXANDER PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • GR
    GLOUSTER REVITALIZATION ORGANIZATIO
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -99%
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
Columbus Historic Preservation Trust

Preservation, Display and use of Historic buildings

Unclassified
2
Columbus Indiana Architectural Archives Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Columbus Capital Foundation Inc

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…

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4
Archaeological Society of Ohio

Education of archaeological society

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5
Campus Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment

Revitalization of the area immediately adjacent to the ohio state university's main campus in columbus, ohio.

Community Improvement
6
Clark County Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Columbus Library Foundation

To provide financial support to the columbus public library

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8
Columbus Jewish Historical Society

To facilitate the collection, preservation and education of the jewish history of central ohio.

Arts & Culture
9
Southeast Ohio Independent News

Local public journalism in athens ohio

Arts & Culture
10
Central Ohio Community Improvement

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…

Community Improvement
11
Ohio Parks & Recreation Association Foundation

The foundation undertakes research, educates critical audiences and collaborates with allied partners to further the cause of public parks and recreation.

Recreation & Sports
12
Friends of the Ohio Theatre Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Design Center; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER: $85,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTERGLOUSTER REVITALIZATION ORGANIZATIO: $5,000 · Community ImprovementGLOUSTER REVITALIZATION ORGANIZATIOHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SE OHIO: $12,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMA…COLUMBUS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherCOLUMBUS ARCHITE…THE COLUMBUS CHAPTER THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS INC: $2,020 · OtherTHE COLUMBUS CHA…HIGHLANDS NATURE SANCTUARY INC (DBA ARCH OF APPALACHIA): $2,000 · OtherHIGHLANDS NATURE…ALEXANDER PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION: $10,000 · EducationALEXANDER PA…The Ohio University Foundation: $6,000 · EducationThe Ohio Uni…STUARTS OPERA HOUSE: $6,000 · Arts & CultureATHENS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 · Arts & CulturePLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO: $5,000 · HealthATHENS CONSERVANCY: $2,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF COLUMBUS AND FRANKLIN COUNTY METRO PARKS: $2,000 · Environment
Community Improvement$90,000Other$21,020Education$16,000Arts & Culture$7,000Health$5,000Environment$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER: $85,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SE OHIO: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALEXANDER PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION: $10,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetSTUARTS OPERA HOUSE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Ohio University Foundation: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetGLOUSTER REVITALIZATION ORGANIZATIO: $5,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS CHAPTER THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS INC: $2,020 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetATHENS CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF COLUMBUS AND FRANKLIN COUNTY METRO PARKS: $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetATHENS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Athens County Foundat…Columbus FoundationFoundation for Appala…Amazonsmile Foundation
Athens County FoundationOH17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Athens County Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Foundation for Appalachian Ohio · 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 Bdt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bdt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 13 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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