· 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.
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
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+39 grants · $74M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY (TNC) | $11,483,513 |
| GREAT BARRIER REEF FOUNDATION | $7,119,258 |
| MAKEWAY FOUNDATION | $6,451,477 |
| CSIRO | $3,678,822 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY BRAIN AND MIND CENTRE (BMC) | $3,553,928 |
| INDIGENOUS DESERT ALLIANCE (IDA) | $3,398,820 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY (THE MATILDA CENTRE) | $3,137,246 |
| SMARTICE SEA MONITORING & INFORMATION INC | $2,506,579 |
| BROOKINGS INSTITUTION | $2,413,130 |
| EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE (EITI) | $2,250,000 |
| LANDESA | $2,020,669 |
| FUNDACION TIERRA AUSTRAL (FTA) | $2,000,000 |
| RAINFOREST ALLIANCE (RA) | $2,000,000 |
| RESULTS FOR DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC | $1,778,833 |
| FUNDACION RE-IMAGINA | $1,577,461 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 62% of grant dollars ($221M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 38% that went abroad ($138M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% 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
Beyond the US: 38% of all-years giving ($138M)
7 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 59% of Bhp Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +94% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.
52 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 8 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $21M · revenue +94%- RARAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC7× · 2018–2025 · $7.1M · revenue +123%
DUKE UNIVERSITY4× · 2022–2025 · $6.1M · revenue +3%
Funded once
- CSC'wlth Scientific Industrial Reschone grant, 2017 · $5.3M
- UOUniversity of Chileone grant, 2017 · $4.2M
- TMThe Melbourne University AMSIone grant, 2017 · $3.7M
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.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Rri's mission is to support local communities and indigenous peoples' struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market, and legal reforms that secure their rights to…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Shape the future of the built environment for transformative impact in communities worldwide. we are a global network of professionals in every sector of real estate development and land use, from private enterprise to public service.
Nrgi envisions a world where natural resources enable fair, prosperous and sustainable societies, instead of undermining them. nrgi exists because decisions about how natural resources are governed determine the well-being of people in…
Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 102 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 CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL BUSINESS COALITION FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RESULTS FOR DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bhp Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bhp Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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