· Private foundation
Bessoncooper Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MARYLAND SPCA | $10,000 |
| BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| ANGUILLA INITIATIVE-PROJECT INSPIRE | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| WASHINGTON COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL - PREPARE FOR SUCCESS | $10,000 |
| DAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC | $8,000 |
| BARNES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BMOREART | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of its 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
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How this is measured
45 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. 45 of the 61 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 APERTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Maryland Institute ↗
- Who funds ANGUILLA ANIMAL RESCUE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds Anguilla Progressive Association of New York ↗
- Who funds JORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OMEGA HORSE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds GODDARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLANCHARDS ANGUILLA CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS ↗
- Who funds GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds FLY TO FREEDOM DOG RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds PYE GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds DEFENDERS OF ANIMAL RIGHTS INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bessoncooper Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bessoncooper Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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