· Private foundation
Bonbright Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL DANCE EDUCATION ORGANIZATION | $13,750 |
| ROWAN CABARRUS YMCA | $11,250 |
| COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| RINCON WATER SAFETY ORGANIZATION CORP | $4,000 |
| JESSE CLUMP MEMORIAL FUND | $3,000 |
| LOWER SHORE LAND TRUST | $2,500 |
| ROWAN CABARRUS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| VCU MASSEY COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER | $2,225 |
| INDIAN RIVER BAND BOOSTERS | $1,000 |
| DELMARVA PUBLIC MEDIA (SALISBURY UNIVERSITY) | $750 |
| GREATER RICHMOND SCAN | $500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR ROCKBRIDGE BETH AND ALLEGHANY | $500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND | $500 |
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 (FY21–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Bonbright Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 27% of the giving stays in ME; read by stated purpose it is 31% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 9 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- NDNATIONAL DANCE EDUCATION ORGANIZATION5× · 2021–2025 · $46k · revenue +0%
- TCTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL3× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue +15%
- RYROWAN-CABARRUS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION3× · 2021–2025 · $17k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2024 · $10k
- AAARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTERone grant, 2022 · $10k
- NMNAMI MAINEone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -47%
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.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
Our mission is to cultivate the resilience of our coastal pond ecosystems through science, collaboration, and education.
Save the bay protects, restores, and improves the ecological health of the narragansett bay region, including its watershed and adjacent coastal waters, through an ecosystem-based approach to environmental action; defends the right of the…
Our mission is to restore and protect barnegat bay and its ecosystem. we advance our mission by being a strong and independent voice for the bay throughout the watershed, including all of ocean and part of monmouth counties. we do this…
Our mission is to permanently conserve and steward natural resources across our island and mainland communities for the benefit of current and future generations.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The royal river conservation trust (rrct) is a regional land trust working primarily in seven maine municipalities. the trust owns,cares for, and stewards land and conservation easements to protect land and water resources for the general…
To inspire each child to achieve personal and academic excellence and to become a caring and ethical contributor to society.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
The rhode island bankers association will serve as the sole rhode island based organization serving the banking industry and will advocate for its member institutions and participate alongside other new england banking industry…
Stoneleigh-burnham school is an academic community that fosters an international perspective. we inspire girls to pursue meaningful lives based on honor, respect, and intellectual curiosity. each student is challenged to discover her best…
Rimta's mission is to champion the rhode island marine industry through advocacy, education, environmental stewardship, innovation and promotion.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sandy Hook Promise Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Rincon Water Safety Organization Corp. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 57 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 NATIONAL DANCE EDUCATION ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROWAN-CABARRUS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SQUASH RACQUETS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI MAINE ↗
- Who funds RINCON WATER SAFETY ORGANIZATION CORP ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA AMBULANCE CORPS ↗
- Who funds JESSE KLUMP MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE SOCCER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ROWAN-CABARRUS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER SHORE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds BARKS OF HOPE A NJ NONPROFIT CORP ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC ↗
- Who funds UP RVA ↗
- Who funds BRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA ↗
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: The Community Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · 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 organization Bonbright Family 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.
- Center for the Inland Bays Inc — 59% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- National Dance Education Organization — 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.