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Bonbright Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$55k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$13,750
Organizations funded a year
15 to 26
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$898k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Bonbright Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthEducationInternationalEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$54k69%
FY202415$54k33%
FY202315$56k33%
FY202215$50k73%
FY202126$49kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$55kHealth$54kEducation$44kRecreation & Sports$32kInternational$23kHuman Services$20kEnvironment$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
NY
MA
PA
CT
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 31 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($75k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Bonbright Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Dance Education Organization: $45,750 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetThe Collegiate School: $20,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRowan-Cabarrus Young Men's Christian Association: $17,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $13,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSalisbury School Inc: $9,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Camps Africa Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCamp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc: $7,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBlue Hill Heritage Trust: $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVirginia Squash Racquets Association Inc: $5,750 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetNami Maine: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRincon Water Safety Organization Corp: $4,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJesse Klump Memorial Fund Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCharlotte Soccer Academy: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of Delaware Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeninsula Ambulance Corps: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Richmond Scan - Stop Child Abuse Now Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLower Shore Land Trust Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRowan-Cabarrus Community College Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlue Hill Public Library: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for the Inland Bays Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBarks of Hope a Nj Nonprofit Corp: $1,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUp Rva: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBrandywine Valley Spca: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmigos de Tres Palmas Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 68% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSandy Hook Promise Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Cameron K Gallagher Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

The Community Foundation IncVA16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Bonbright Family Foundation

How much does Bonbright Family Foundation give?
Bonbright Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $54,975 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 26 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Bonbright Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Health (21%), Education (17%).
Who are Bonbright Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: National Dance Education Organization ($46k), The Collegiate School ($21k), Rowan-Cabarrus Young Men's Christian Association ($17k).
Does Bonbright Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bonbright Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bonbright Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Maine Community Foundation Inc, Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn.
Where is Bonbright Family Foundation based?
Bonbright Family Foundation is based in ME.

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 57 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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