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BGDG 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Intermountain Healthcare Foundation | $72,032 |
| Jazz Mentors Foundation | $25,000 |
| Project Heal | $10,000 |
| Obontu | $6,000 |
| Neuroworx | $5,000 |
| WPR Cares | $5,000 |
| Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance | $5,000 |
| Toys for Tots | $3,500 |
| Leukemia Lymphoma Society | $3,500 |
| Network for Good | $3,000 |
| Schoolfundrorg | $210 |
| Alliance Community Services | $119 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF3× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue +76%- AMAMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING2× · 2019–2020 · $9k · revenue +141%
- OROUR RESCUE2× · 2018–2020 · $5k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- TCThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latteone grant, 2022 · $4.0M
- GCGIVING CHILDREN HOPEone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -11%
- MGMORE GOOD FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +124%
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The mission of globus relief is to improve the delivery of healthcare worldwide by gathering, processing and distributing surplus medical and health supplies to charities at home and abroad.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
To empower lives by restoring vision for millions of people in need.
Upwardly global removes employment barriers for immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals while advancing the inclusion of their skills into the u.s. economy.
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
One child global's mission is to advocate for children in hard places and provide holistic care so they have hope and thrive. onechild global's 355 hope centers provide holistic child development progress in nineteen countries.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Futures Without Violence and the most unlike its peers is The Jazz Mentors Foundation. 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 25 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 53 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 INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYA RELIEF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JAZZ MENTORS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds LIFTING GENERATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GIVING CHILDREN HOPE ↗
- Who funds MORE GOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING ↗
- Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WASATCH PEAKS RANCH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Be Humanitarian ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds Travis Manion Foundation ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BLINDNESS ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH MAKING A DIFFERENCE ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH AND INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Unbound ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving 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 BGDG Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% 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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