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Binder 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 $10k11 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $389k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $155k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIVE-MENTOR-LOVE FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $155,000 |
| UCLA | $38,000 |
| CARLTHORP SCHOOL | $37,000 |
| DEXTER SOUTHFIELD | $31,000 |
| VILLAGE SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| CALTECH | $30,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $25,000 |
| LA'S BEST | $20,000 |
| PALI RIPTIDE BASEBALL | $18,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER CHESTNUT HILL | $15,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| KEHILLAT ISRAEL | $10,000 |
| VINCENT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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, $695k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 8 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles4× · 2018–2022 · $3.0M · revenue +27%
- AEAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH8× · 2017–2024 · $795k · revenue +0%
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation5× · 2017–2024 · $460k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- LALOS ANGELES OPERAone grant, 2017 · $137k
- BCBOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $125k
- XCXAVIER COLLEGE PREPone grant, 2020 · $100k
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.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
Our mission is to "empower children to fulfill their unlimited, god-given potential as fearless scholars and conscientious citizens."
The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…
Crossroads is an independent school for approximately 1,200 students.
Wns is committed to creating a deeply caring community of lifelong learners that nurtures students from diverse backgrounds to reach their full potential, develop cultural competency, and inspire the world with their curiosity, innovation,…
We cultivate the boundless potential of highly gifted children, nurture their passions and talents, and develop a diverse community of creative and constructive lifelong learners.
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Para Los Ninos and the most unlike its peers is Terrific 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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
72 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. 72 of the 104 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 Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Give-Mentor-Love Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CALTECH Y ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds CARLTHORP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE WINSOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE NEST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LA'S BEST ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE COLBURN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PALM VALLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds TERRIFIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VINCENT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
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: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation
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 Binder 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% 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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