· Private foundation
Bedrock Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of Bedrock Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Bedrock Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $42k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JACKSON SCHOOL OF GEOSCIENCES | $4,250 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| AMHERST COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| COLORADO COLLEGE | $3,500 |
| UNITED WAY HOUSTON | $3,000 |
| SAFE ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ST MARKS SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS | $2,500 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| JOHN A CHELEY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| HOCKADAY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH HOUSTON | $1,500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN NY | $1,000 |
| HIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
25 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2022, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ACAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES7× · 2017–2023 · $32k · revenue +141%
- HSHOCKADAY SCHOOL5× · 2017–2022 · $20k · revenue +44%
- TCTHE COLORADO COLLEGE5× · 2018–2022 · $12k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- WIWatson Institutegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +383%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +51%- VOVALLEY OF OUR LADY MONASTERYone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 59 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Watson Institute ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds HIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GOLD ANTI-TRUST ACTION COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Ingenuity Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Educate ↗
- Who funds STRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds 29th Street Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Houston ↗
- Who funds LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Station North Tool Library Inc ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Katy Christian Ministries ↗
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: The Abell Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bedrock Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bedrock Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Thread Inc: 12% of income from government
- Maryland New Directions Inc: 8% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc: 7% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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