Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Bhp Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $76M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $669,784
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,483,513
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 41
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $185M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations Bhp Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 41 | $62M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $54M | 46% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $42M | 42% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $50M | 57% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $32M | 54% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $24M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $16M | 85% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $16M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conservation International Foundation | $20,707,090 | 5 | 3% |
| The Brookings Institution | $9,893,329 | 4 | 2% |
| Rural Development Institute | $8,663,076 | 4 | 24% |
| Rainforest Alliance Inc | $7,111,328 | 7 | 3% |
| Duke University | $6,132,706 | 4 | 0% |
| Global Business Coalition for Education Inc | $5,822,921 | 6 | 67% |
| Pacific Institute | $5,085,664 | 4 | n/a |
| Results for Development Institute Inc | $4,735,305 | 3 | 3% |
| Teach for All Inc | $2,833,101 | 1 | 5% |
| United States Association for UNHCR | $2,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conservation International Foundation | $20,707,090 | 5 | 3% |
| The Brookings Institution | $9,893,329 | 4 | 2% |
| Rural Development Institute | $8,663,076 | 4 | 24% |
| Rainforest Alliance Inc | $7,111,328 | 7 | 3% |
| Duke University | $6,132,706 | 4 | 0% |
| Global Business Coalition for Education Inc | $5,822,921 | 6 | 67% |
| Pacific Institute | $5,085,664 | 4 | n/a |
| Results for Development Institute Inc | $4,735,305 | 3 | 3% |
| Teach for All Inc | $2,833,101 | 1 | 5% |
| United States Association for UNHCR | $2,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ecoagriculture International Inc | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Amazon Conservation Association | $81,628 | 1 | 3% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 89 recipients with no EIN on record ($224M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bhp Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Rockefeller Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Bhp Foundation
- How much does Bhp Foundation give?
- Bhp Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $75,642,509 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Bhp Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (32%), Education (19%), International (8%).
- Who are Bhp Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Conservation International Foundation ($21M), The Brookings Institution ($9.9M), Rural Development Institute ($8.7M).
- Does Bhp Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bhp 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 Bhp Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rockefeller Foundation, Conrad N Hilton Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Bhp Foundation based?
- Bhp Foundation is based in DC.
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