· Private foundation
Bnsf Railway Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k829 grants · $1.9M
- $10k–50k144 grants · $2.1M
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $500,000 |
| MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $500,000 |
| NATIONAL JUNETEENTH MUSEUM | $400,000 |
| NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES INC | $200,000 |
| NATIONAL FFA FOUNDATION | $102,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF TARRANT CO | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| WHITMAN COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE ICE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FDN | $100,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $100,000 |
| U W DANIEL J EVANS GRAD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIR | $100,000 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| VAN CLIBURN FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $975k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those 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
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 +17% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
1115 repeat relationships: 444 still active in FY2025, 671 since wound down; 97 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +53%
- TCTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +40%
- NFNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +48%
Funded once
- NUNADABURG UNIFIED SCHOOL DIST 81 STUDENT ARCHERYone grant, 2024 · $120k
- FOFRIENDS OF DOON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -49%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY OF NORTH TEXASone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
Invest in nonprofits, programs, collaborations that equip, empower and create opportunities for all to thrive.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve lives.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen.
Uwgn unites the community and mobilizes resources so that every child, individual & family thrives
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
To maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans.
Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.
Hunger relief network sharing millions of pounds of nutritious food with thousands of missourians.
Through the work of goodwill, people will have the opportunity to achieve their greatest potential.
Provide innovative, life- enriching services for individuals with disabilities.
How this is measured
1136 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. 1136 of the 2,000 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JUNETEENTH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds EVENT FACILITIES FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National FFA Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FARM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds North Dakota State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Kansas State Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America Longhorn Council Properties Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KNOX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds Van Cliburn Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TULSA DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY 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: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Paul E Andrews Jr Foundation · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · R4 Foundation · The Morris Foundation · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bnsf Railway Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bnsf Railway Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- United Way of the Columbia-Willamette: 25% of income from government
How this is measured
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