How much does Bezos Family Foundation give?

Bezos Family Foundation reported 182 itemized grants totaling $117,846,877, out of $156,961,896 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing.

What does Bezos Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (4%), Human Services (2%), International (2%).

Who are Bezos Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2023 to FY2023: Save The Children Federation Inc ($10M), Children's Museum of Manhattan ($9.9M), Harlem Children's Zone Inc ($9.9M).

Does Bezos Family Foundation 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 Bezos Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gates Foundation, Seattle Foundation, WK Kellogg Foundation.

Where is Bezos Family Foundation based?

Bezos Family Foundation is based in WA.

Foundation Dossiers

Washington · Private foundation

Bezos Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$157M
Granted FY2023: 182
Itemized grants FY2023: 136
Organizations funded FY2023

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Itemized, FY2023: $118M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023: $248,745
Largest grant, FY2023: $9,916,434
States reached, FY2023: 29
Total assets, FY2023: $154M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$31MHuman Services$17MInternational$15MArts & Culture$12MPhilanthropy$11MHealth$6.6MYouth Development$6.0MCommunity Improvement$5.9MOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Save The Children Federation Inc	$10,116,941	1	1%
Children's Museum of Manhattan	$9,916,757	1	74%
Harlem Children's Zone Inc	$9,916,434	1	10%
Ted Foundation Inc	$5,607,199	1	6%
Transcend Inc	$4,804,059	1	15%
Children's Defense Fund	$4,417,028	1	22%
University of Washington	$4,097,979	1	n/a
Mississippi State University	$2,387,615	1	n/a
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc	$2,330,463	1	0%
Teachers College Columbia University	$2,122,562	1	1%

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All grantees of Bezos Family Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Save The Children Federation Inc	$10,116,941	1	1%
Children's Museum of Manhattan	$9,916,757	1	74%
Harlem Children's Zone Inc	$9,916,434	1	10%
Ted Foundation Inc	$5,607,199	1	6%
Transcend Inc	$4,804,059	1	15%
Children's Defense Fund	$4,417,028	1	22%
University of Washington	$4,097,979	1	n/a
Mississippi State University	$2,387,615	1	n/a
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc	$2,330,463	1	0%
Teachers College Columbia University	$2,122,562	1	1%
Robin Hood Foundation	$1,984,313	1	1%
The Aspen Institute Inc	$1,718,409	1	1%
Camfed USA Foundation	$1,547,276	1	4%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$1,446,435	1	0%
City Year Inc	$1,322,876	1	1%
Center for Expanding Leadership and Opportunity Inc	$1,147,880	1	n/a
Ment Ltd	$1,116,649	1	81%
Buck Institute for Education	$1,015,109	1	5%
James B Hunt Jr Institute for Educational Leadership & Policy Fdn	$992,981	1	5%
Relay Graduate School of Education	$911,031	1	2%
Centering Healthcare Institute Inc	$885,050	1	13%
School of Leadership-Afghanistan Inc	$837,523	1	35%
Pahara Institute Inc	$649,265	1	8%
Anew	$600,000	1	n/a
Choose Love Inc	$532,384	1	3%
Tools of the Mind	$529,667	1	9%
The Mind Trust Inc	$507,554	1	2%
Technology Access Foundation	$500,000	1	12%
Harold Kl Castle Foundation	$500,000	1	4%
National Constitution Center	$499,449	1	2%
Council for a Strong America	$485,501	1	10%
Businesses United in Investing Lending & Development	$472,833	1	6%
STEM Next Opportunity Fund	$450,000	1	6%
National Black Child Development Institute	$446,869	1	9%
New Schools Fund	$426,438	1	1%
National Opinion Research Center	$425,000	1	0%
Teach for All Inc	$346,994	1	1%
Third Sector New England Inc	$337,541	1	0%
Washington State Department of Commerce	$333,333	1	n/a
Televisa Foundation Inc	$278,504	1	27%
Healthconnect One	$262,000	1	4%
The National Mentoring Partnership Inc	$252,313	1	3%
Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii	$250,000	1	14%
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc	$250,000	1	0%
Summit Community Center	$250,000	1	13%
Uncommon Schools Inc	$250,000	1	0%
Inner City Scholarship Fund Inc	$250,000	1	1%
The Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas	$250,000	1	49%
Eden Peopleplanet	$250,000	1	1%
Treehouse	$250,000	1	1%
Impact Public Schools	$250,000	1	1%
Rise Up Academy	$250,000	1	21%
Urgent Inc	$250,000	1	24%
Inspire Development Centers	$250,000	1	0%
Child Care Aware of America	$249,143	1	1%
Anti-Defamation League	$247,833	1	1%
Southern Education Foundation Inc	$247,020	1	4%
American Friends of Reichman University Inc	$246,438	1	1%
Open Arms Perinatal Services	$240,000	1	5%
National Parent Leadership Institute Inc	$216,667	1	12%
Masters School	$210,000	1	0%
Citizen University	$175,000	1	8%
Open Doors for Multicultural Families	$150,000	1	3%
Dibia Dream Inc	$150,000	1	n/a
Arizona Latino Leaders in Education	$150,000	1	8%
Childhaven	$150,000	1	1%
Early Childhood Initiative Inc	$150,000	1	7%
Miami Bridge Youth and Family Services Inc	$150,000	1	2%
Harlem Grown Inc	$135,000	1	3%
Wellspring Family Services	$130,000	1	1%
Search for Common Ground	$128,450	1	0%
University City Children's Center	$126,048	1	3%
East African Community Services	$125,000	1	3%
YWCA White Plains & Central Westchester Inc and Its Affiliates	$121,200	1	1%
South Seattle Womens Health Foundat	$115,000	1	12%
Girls Who Code Inc	$112,500	1	0%
Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic	$100,000	1	0%
Food Empowerment Education Sustainability Team	$100,000	1	6%
Westchester Jewish Community Services Inc	$100,000	1	0%
United Indians of All Tribes Foundation	$100,000	1	1%
Child Care Council of Westchester Inc	$100,000	1	1%
Donorschooseorg	$100,000	1	0%
Native American Community Academy Foundation	$100,000	1	5%
Homefront Inc	$100,000	1	0%
National Hispanic Institute Inc	$100,000	1	5%
Per Scholas Inc	$100,000	1	0%
Seeds of Peace Inc	$80,000	1	1%
Society for Research in Child Development Inc	$75,000	1	1%
University of Washington Foundation	$75,000	1	0%
William T Grant Foundation Inc	$75,000	1	0%
Aliento Education Fund	$70,000	1	4%
Advocates for Children of New York	$65,000	1	1%
Kentucky Student Voice Team Inc	$60,000	1	n/a
Parents as Teachers National Center Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Milton Academy	$50,000	1	0%
The Children's Cabinet Inc	$46,339	1	0%
National Campaign to Stop Violence	$15,000	1	15%
Kentucky Derby Festival Foundation	$12,000	1	5%
Capita Social Inc	$10,000	1	1%
National Academy of Sciences	$5,010	1	0%
National 4-H Council	$5,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($27M), not named here.

Bezos Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 94 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 94.

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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.

Gates FoundationWA37× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · Seattle Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Overdeck Family Foundation Inc · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Raikes Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · School's Out Washington · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett 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.

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About Bezos Family Foundation

How much does Bezos Family Foundation give?: Bezos Family Foundation reported 182 itemized grants totaling $117,846,877, out of $156,961,896 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing.
What does Bezos Family Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (4%), Human Services (2%), International (2%).
Who are Bezos Family Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2023 to FY2023: Save The Children Federation Inc ($10M), Children's Museum of Manhattan ($9.9M), Harlem Children's Zone Inc ($9.9M).
Does Bezos Family Foundation 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 Bezos Family Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gates Foundation, Seattle Foundation, WK Kellogg Foundation.
Where is Bezos Family Foundation based?: Bezos Family Foundation is based in WA.