How much did BOLGER FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 85% of BOLGER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k9 grants · $32k
$10k–50k11 grants · $235k
$50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
$250k+1 grant · $255k

$25,500

Median grant

States reached

$39M

Total assets

Largest grants

SERVANTS HEART$255,000
BROWNSVILLE AMBULANCE SERVICES$226,500
NEW HOPE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$150,000
NEW YORK CITY RELIEF INC$125,000
THE BOSTON HOUSE$125,000
THE PHOENIX CENTER$80,000
OUR HOUSE FOUNDATION INC$60,000
RIDGEWOOD HISTORICAL SOCIETY$54,500
ASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST$50,000
JOY DEW$50,000
GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC$50,000
PASSAIC COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$50,000
USA CARES INC$50,000
SAINT MARYS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$50,000
FRIENDS OF THE HERMITAGE$30,500

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, $333k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. 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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$10M · 18 repeat orgs$5.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$10M

$4.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+17%

Still filing today

56%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther

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

VH
VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
3× · 2017–2023 · $750k · revenue +157%
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MIDLAND PARK AMBULANCE CORP
3× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +46% · 46% of their budget
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FRIENDS OF THE HERMITAGE
2× · 2022–2024 · $76k · revenue +43%

Funded once

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NORTHFIELD MT HERMON SCHOOL
one grant, 2017 · $3.0M
JOHN AND MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART
one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +2%
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PINE TREE STATE 4-H CLUB FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $130k

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.

Dutchess Land Conservancy Inc

The organization is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural, and environmental resources of (continued) dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area.

Environment

Northern Neck Land Conservancy

Promotion of land conservation with education.

Environment

Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…

Environment

Riverside Park Conservancy Inc

The mission of the conservancy is to restore, maintain, and improve riverside park

Environment

Monmouth Conservation Foundation

To acquire, hold, preserve and protect the open lands, historic areas and park and recreational areas of monmouth county, new jersey, together with any buildings located thereon; to solicit and receive, including but not limited to gifts,…

Environment

Hudson Yards Development Corporation

Manages the implementation of the city of new york's economic initiatives for the redevelopment of the hudson yards area of manhattan, including extension of no. 7 subway to west 34th st, construction of public amenities including parks…

Community Improvement

Greenbelt Conservancy Inc

The Greenbelt Conservancy (the "Greenbelt"), the second of New York City's Flagship Parks, consists of over 2,800 acres of public and privatge land (greater than the combined acreage of Central Park and Prospect Park) in the center of…

Environment

The Forest Park Conservancy

The mission of the forest park conservancy is to protect and foster the ecological health of forest park, maintain and enhance the park's extensive trails network, and inspire community appreciation and future stewardship of this iconic…

Environment

Camden County Historical Society

Founded in 1899, the camden county historical society (cchs) is a public, non-profit organization dedicated to the collection, preservation, study, interpretation, and cultural enrichment of life in camden county and southern new jersey.

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Shelby Farms Park Conservancy

The conservancy's mission is to manage, operate, restore and improve shelby farms park in partnership with and for the public. the conservancy is responsible for daily management, fundraising to meet operational budget needs, setting the…

Recreation & Sports

Ridge and Valley Conservancy Inc

Preserve & protect natural areas within the appalachian valley & ridge region of northwestern nj.

Environment

Lyme Land Conservation Trust Inc

Conservation of lyme's natural, scenic and historic land & water resources.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Health Care Center and the most unlike its peers is Gods Kitchen Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/41

the rest of the field

10%

5,422/52,251

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.

05the grantee network

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/37

Grantees still filing

30/37

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$13,924,902Health$954,000Arts & Culture$552,000Human Services$345,712Food & Nutrition$175,000Environment$131,016Education$90,000

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Columbia Bank FoundationNJ30× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbia Bank Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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 organisation BOLGER 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

16get no government money at all

2rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MIDLAND PARK AMBULANCE CORP.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~52 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 237108509 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MIDLAND PARK AMBULANCE CORP, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 52 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 46% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Bolger Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bolger Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BOLGER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bolger Foundation?

More from the funding graph

BOLGER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bolger Foundation?

More from the funding graph