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Bilanin Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Bilanin Family Foundation Inc

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.

$156k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$101k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$697kYouth Development$16kFood & Nutrition$13kHealth$12kArts & Culture$3kEmployment$2kPublic Benefit$1kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
$1,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$661k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY$101,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
DETERMINED TO SUCCEED$20,000
THE HONOR FOUNDATION$2,000
TRENTON AREA SOUP KITCHEN$1,925
BLOOD CANCER UNITED$1,500
MARYMOUNT SCHOOL OF NY$1,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$1,000
LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL$1,000
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSN$1,000
OctSaves-Ayrton Whitehouse$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HAPPY TRAILS FOR KIDS: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$900k · 14 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
12

Total granted

$900k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
-6%

Still filing today

64%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthEmploymentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • Bucknell University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $645k · revenue +45%
  • DT
    Determined to Succeed
    8× · 2018–2025 · $128k · revenue +106%
  • TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • BN
    BHIA NEW JERSEY NON-PROFIT CORP
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -95%
  • FB
    FAR BROOK SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +69%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
The Branson School

To provide an academically exceptional education to students grade 9 through 12 in a warm, supportive, and nurturing environment.

Education
4
Morristown-Beard School

Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.

Education
5
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Barnard College

Barnard college aims to provide the highest quality liberal arts education to promising and high-achieving young women, offering the unparalleled advantages of an outstanding residential college in partnership with a major research…

Education
9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc

Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.

Education
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bhia New Jersey Non-Profit Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Bucknell University: $645,000 · EducationBucknell UniversityDetermined to Succeed: $127,530 · EducationDetermined to Succeed+5 more: $31,505 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherIndividual …Individual grant recipient: $24,120 · OtherIndividual …The Rumson Country Day School: $7,926 · OtherThe Rumson …BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $4,030 · Other+9 more: $19,042 · Other+9 moreTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc: $14,933 · Food & NutritionAIRPORT MARINA COUNSELING SERVICE: $6,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,500 · HealthSOUTHEASTERN BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $1,030 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $1,000 · HealthSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $1,000 · HealthTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · EmploymentNO LIMITS CAFE: $1,500 · EmploymentVILLAGE FOR VETS: $1,030 · Public BenefitHAPPY TRAILS FOR KIDS: $1,000 · Human Services
Education$804,035Other$90,118Food & Nutrition$14,933Health$10,530Employment$3,500Public Benefit$1,030Human Services$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBucknell University: $645,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDetermined to Succeed: $127,530 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc: $14,933 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rumson Country Day School: $7,926 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT PROSPECT: $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAIRPORT MARINA COUNSELING SERVICE: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBHIA NEW JERSEY NON-PROFIT CORP: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFAR BROOK SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNO LIMITS CAFE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALL WAYS UP FOUNDATION: $1,059 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVILLAGE FOR VETS: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $1,030 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,005 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAPPY TRAILS FOR KIDS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Ralph M Parsons F…California Community …Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bilanin Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bilanin Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bilanin Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Bilanin Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 30 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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