How much did Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund grant in FY2021?

Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund reported 997 itemized grants totaling $39,013,139, out of $43,460,688 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing.

Where is Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund based?

Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund is based in MA.

Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund

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· Public charity

Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund

BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is a 501(c)(3) which promotes philanthropy by receiving charitable contributions, by providing support to encourage the making of charitable contributions, pooling such contributions for investment management and administrative purposes, and by making gifts to organizations which are dedicated to…

$43M

Granted FY2021

997

Grants FY2021

States reached

$1.1M

Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

90% of Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1435 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund named its own grantees at scale: 948 organizations, $39M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

247

’17

403

’18

587

’19

804

’20

948

’21

867

’22

1132

’23

1435

’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund

01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$742MEducation$113MReligion$70MArts & Culture$35MHealth$34MInternational$20MHuman Services$15MEnvironment$9.9MOther$0

02FY2021 · 997 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 997 grants below total $39,013,139 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $43,460,688 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,447,549 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

Under $10k158 grants · $1.1M
$10k–50k647 grants · $11M
$50k–250k172 grants · $16M
$250k+20 grants · $11M

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST	$1,135,055
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC	$1,010,000
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND	$992,388
SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND	$899,818
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS	$655,000
PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE	$548,750
BISHOP MCGUINNESS CATHOLIC HIGH	$525,000
EASTRIDGE CHURCH	$525,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION	$501,000
OUR SISTERS SCHOOL INC	$500,000
BUZZARDS BAY COALITION INC	$500,000
BOURNE CONSERVATION TRUST	$500,000
RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA	$355,000
NPH USA	$350,000
NAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION	$350,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $16.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$284M · 1387 repeat orgs$47M to everyone else

1387 repeat relationships — 758 still active in FY2021, 629 since wound down; 390 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1387

140

Total granted

$284M

$19M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+32%

Still filing today

79%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthInternationalEnvironmentOther

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

University of South Florida Foundation Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $18M · revenue +132%
TA
TABOR ACADEMY
4× · 2021–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +54%
FO
FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +10%

Funded once

MS
Mississippi State University Foundation Incgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $7.0M · revenue +54%
TI
The Impact Fundgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $1.5M · revenue +88% · 68% of their budget
IC
INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY
one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue -80%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Boston Architectural College

Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…

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United States Naval Institute

To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.

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University of New Haven

See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education

Augustana College

Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.

Education

University of Denver

A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Education

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

the organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the UCSF Foundation.

Education

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic

Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.

Health

Furman University

Furman university is an institution of higher education providing distinctive undergraduate education emphasizing an engaged approach combining classroom learning with real world experiences and self-discovery.

Education

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

Npr Foundation

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Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Embolden creative leaders to transform society through equity, empathy, & imagination.

Education

The Baruch College Fund

The fund engages in generating, encouraging & promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Oliver Scholars Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Travellers Rest Historic House. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.7%20/2,965

the rest of the field

11%

4,324/39,030

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.

04the grantee network

1628 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. 1628 of the 2,000 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

245

Early backer (in before they grew)

1601/1628

Grantees still filing

1148/1628

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$702,779,605Education$68,585,345Other$97,098,379Community Improvement$34,309,514Arts & Culture$23,634,119Human Services$15,828,775Health$13,270,649

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Grousemont FoundationWA33.1× affinity25 shared granteesties to 3 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grousemont Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Speyer Family Foundation · Cashman Family Foundation · Roy a Hunt Foundation · Alvord Family Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · Stevenson Family Charitable Trust · Cognizant US Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries

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 Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

26get no government money at all

32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home