· Private foundation
Bessoncooper Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $91k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $197k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART | $113,988 |
| APERTURE FOUNDATION | $83,511 |
| ANGUILLA ANIMAL RESCUE CORPORATION CO MARK BAUMWELL | $11,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
| MARYLAND SPCA | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL - PREPARE FOR SUCCESS | $10,000 |
| WASHINGTON COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| ANGUILLA INITIATIVE-PROJECT INSPIRE | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| DAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC | $8,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL - HOCO FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| SHARE OUR STRENGTH NO KID HUNGRY | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- MIMaryland Institute9× · 2017–2025 · $742k · revenue +1%
- AAANGUILLA ANIMAL RESCUE CORPORATION8× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +64%
- DEDAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- APAnguilla Progressive Association of New Yorkone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -48%
- AAAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR RESPIRATORY CAREone grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue 0%
- WAWALTERS ART MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Maryland Spca Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 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. 45 of the 61 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 APERTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Maryland Institute ↗
- Who funds ANGUILLA ANIMAL RESCUE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Anguilla Progressive Association of New York ↗
- Who funds OMEGA HORSE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GODDARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLANCHARDS ANGUILLA CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS ↗
- Who funds FLY TO FREEDOM DOG RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds PYE GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds DEFENDERS OF ANIMAL RIGHTS INC ↗
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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Bessoncooper Fund Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc — 6% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% of income from government
- Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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