New Jersey · Private foundation
Bear Foundation- Tr
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.
- $183k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Bear Foundation- Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $183k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $59k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $62k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $25k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $285k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $135k | 73% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $106k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $83k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern University | $300,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Media Power Youth | $273,000 | 5 | 53% |
| Reds Good Vibes Inc | $85,000 | 3 | 34% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua | $75,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lincoln Nursery School Inc | $49,600 | 6 | 2% |
| Chase Home for Children | $22,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Seacoast Womens Giving Circle | $17,500 | 5 | 6% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Food for Others Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Family Promise Metrowest Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern University | $300,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Media Power Youth | $273,000 | 5 | 53% |
| Reds Good Vibes Inc | $85,000 | 3 | 34% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua | $75,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lincoln Nursery School Inc | $49,600 | 6 | 2% |
| Chase Home for Children | $22,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Seacoast Womens Giving Circle | $17,500 | 5 | 6% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Food for Others Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Family Promise Metrowest Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 1% |
| New Hampshire Women's Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Parmenter Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Collier County Flor | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nashoba Learning Group Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Cornerstone School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hope and Comfort Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Laces of Love Charitable Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Ink 4 Pink | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Chase Home | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Michael Lisnow Respite Center Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($49k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bear Foundation- Tr supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Bear Foundation- Tr
- How much does Bear Foundation- Tr give?
- Bear Foundation- Tr reported 7 grants totaling $183,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bear Foundation- Tr fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (32%), Youth Development (29%), Human Services (21%).
- Who are Bear Foundation- Tr's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Northwestern University ($300k), Media Power Youth ($273k), Reds Good Vibes Inc ($85k).
- Does Bear Foundation- Tr fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bear Foundation- Tr accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bear Foundation- Tr?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Eversource Energy Foundation Inc.
- Where is Bear Foundation- Tr based?
- Bear Foundation- Tr is based in NJ.
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