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Bokom Foundation Inc

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.

$39k
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$176kArts & Culture$64kEducation$60kRecreation & Sports$34kReligion$32kAnimals$19kHealth$5kHuman Services$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
14
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National$5,000
United Methodist Church Retired Ministers Dinner$4,500
Akron Art Museum$2,000
Cleveland Museum of Natural History Natural Areas Fund$1,500
Mercy Hurst University$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Wild Salmon Fund$1,000
Trout Unlimited Coldwater Conservation$1,000
Summit Metro Parks Foundation$1,000
Ohio Erie Canalway Coalition$1,000
Ohio Environmental Council$1,000
Montana Trout Unlimited$1,000
Dunham Tavern Klein Garden$1,000
Colorado College$1,000
Forman School$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%MINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $500 → 13%Susan B Anthony Project: $1k → 9%Susan B Anthony Project: $500 → 9%Susan B Anthony Project: $500 → 9%Susan B Anthony Project: $500 → 9%Battered Womens Shelter: $200 → 13%Battered Womens Shelter: $200 → 13%BATTERED WOMEN SHELTER: $200 → 13%BATTERED WOMENS SHELTER: $200 → 13%Battered Womens Shelter: $200 → 13%Battered Womens Shelter: $200 → 13%BATTERED WOMENS SHELTER: $200 → 13%Battered Womens Shelter: $200 → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MT
ND
NY
OR
WY
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
WV
VA
TN
DC
FL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$349k · 68 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

68 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
18

Total granted

$349k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+51%

Still filing today

46%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • CM
    CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +31%
  • AA
    AKRON ART MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +35%
  • TO
    THE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • CV
    CUYAHOGA VALLEY COUNTRYSIDE CONSERV
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • CV
    Cuyahoga Valley National CVEEC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • WP
    WINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -43%
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
The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment
2
The Forest Park Conservancy

To protect and restore the ecological health of forest park and marquam nature park, maintain and enhance their extensive trails networks, promote equitable access, and inspire diverse community appreciation and stewardship of these iconic…

Environment
3
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
4
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
5
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
6
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
7
The Trustees of Reservations

Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.

Environment
8
New York League of Conservation Voters

See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…

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9
Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc

The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…

Environment
10
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
11
Conservation Minnesota

Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.

Environment
12
Akron Zoological Park

We connect your life to wildlife while inspiring lifelong learning and conservation action.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park; the most unlike its peers is Ripley Inc. 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

39 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. 39 of the 98 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
30/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NAT: $46,000 · OtherCONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATUnited Methodist Church: $27,000 · OtherUnited Methodist ChurchCUYAHOGA VALLEY COUNTRYSIDE CONSERV: $25,000 · OtherCUYAHOGA VALLEY COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVCountryside Conservancy: $14,500 · OtherCountryside ConservancyCleveland Metroparks: $12,600 · OtherCuyahoga Valley National CVEEC: $10,000 · OtherDucks Unlimited: $9,400 · OtherTROUT UNLIMITED: $9,000 · Other+61 more: $105,900 · Other+61 moreCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $37,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM…AKRON ART MUSEUM: $20,500 · Arts & CultureAKRON ART MUSEUMOHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION: $3,500 · Arts & CultureOHIO & ERIE CANA…THE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $17,000 · EnvironmentTHE OHIO EN…WINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCY: $5,000 · EnvironmentWINOUS POIN…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST F…CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK: $5,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVANCY…CLARK FORK COALITION: $4,500 · EnvironmentCLARK FORK …SUMMIT METRO PARKS FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EnvironmentSUMMIT METR…LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $1,600 · Environment+3 more: $3,100 · Environment+3 moreTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $8,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $3,800 · EducationOLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC: $3,200 · EducationOLD TRAIL SCHOOL: $3,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF CROWELL HILAKA: $3,000 · EducationOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $2,800 · EducationRUMSEY HALL SCHOOL INC: $2,400 · EducationMERCYHURST UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationTHE HILL SCHOOL: $1,600 · EducationLitchfield Montessori School Inc: $1,400 · EducationMONTANA TROUT UNLIMITED: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsCASCADE LOCKS PARK ASSOCIATION: $3,500 · Recreation & SportsBATH PONY CLUB: $2,200 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $200 · Recreation & SportsTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $7,500 · AnimalsTHE TVRC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · Youth Development
Other$259,400Arts & Culture$61,000Environment$44,200Education$31,200Recreation & Sports$10,900Animals$7,500Youth Development$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $37,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAKRON ART MUSEUM: $20,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $17,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $7,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TVRC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFORMAN SCHOOL INC: $6,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMONTANA TROUT UNLIMITED: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLARK FORK COALITION: $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVICTORY GALLOP INC: $4,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $3,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCASCADE LOCKS PARK ASSOCIATION: $3,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetOHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION: $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC: $3,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOLD TRAIL SCHOOL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT METRO PARKS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF CROWELL HILAKA: $3,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $2,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRIPLEY INC: $2,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRUMSEY HALL SCHOOL INC: $2,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBATH PONY CLUB: $2,200 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetMERCYHURST UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKENTS HILL SCHOOL: $1,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $1,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL: $1,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER: $1,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WHITE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS INSTITUTE INC: $1,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLitchfield Montessori School Inc: $1,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $1,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDUBOIS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $800 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Medina County Parks Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR FLORIDA'S NATIONAL PARKS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100 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.

  • Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TVRC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FORMAN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds WINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA TROUT UNLIMITED ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ↗
  • Who funds CLARK FORK COALITION ↗
  • Who funds VICTORY GALLOP INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CASCADE LOCKS PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds OHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION ↗
  • Who funds OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC ↗
  • Who funds OLD TRAIL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT METRO PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CROWELL HILAKA ↗
  • Who funds OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds RIPLEY 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.

Akron Community Found…Fw Albrecht Family Fo…Gar FoundationThe Patricia & J Harv…The Richard S and Ali…Lehner Family Foundat…The Welty Family Foun…Sandra L and Dennis B…The Bruce & Erica Gre…The Feth Family Found…Jackie & Bruce Davey …Sisler McFawn Foundat…
Akron Community FoundationOH29× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · Fw Albrecht Family Foundation · Gar Foundation · The Patricia & J Harvey Graves Family Foundation · The Richard S and Alita Rogers Family Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Sandra L and Dennis B Haslinger Family Foundation Inc Co Sandra Haslinger · The Bruce & Erica Greer Family Foundation · The Feth Family Foundation · Jackie & Bruce Davey Family Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn

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 Bokom Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bokom 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 →median 0%
  • Susan B Anthony Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
12report 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.

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 98 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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