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Virginia · Public charity

BH Fund

To promote the rule of law and limited, constitutional government.

$5.6M
Granted FY2021
3
Itemized grants FY2021
2
Organizations funded FY2021
50%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$1.5M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$600,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$700,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 2
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
2

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 50% of the organizations BH Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20212$795k50%
FY20202$738kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Civil Rights$1.1MPhilanthropy$700kPublic Benefit$433k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
People United for Privacy$600,0001100%
Dominican House of Studies$500,0001n/a
America Engaged$433,0002100%

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About BH Fund

How much does BH Fund give?
BH Fund reported 3 itemized grants totaling $1,495,000, out of $5,568,530 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 2 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does BH Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Civil Rights (49%), Philanthropy (31%), Public Benefit (19%).
Who are BH Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: People United for Privacy ($600k), Dominican House of Studies ($500k), America Engaged ($433k).
Does BH Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is BH Fund based?
BH Fund is based in VA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 4 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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