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Bonbright Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$898k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Individual grant recipient$2,500
LOWER SHORE LAND TRUST$2,500
ROWAN CABARRUS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CANNON MEMORIAL YMCA: $1k → 8%ROWAN CABARRUS YMCA: $11k → 15%CAMERON K GALLAGHER FOUNDATION: $250 → 6%ROWAN-CABARRUS YMCA: $5k → 15%JESSE CLUMP MEMORIAL FUND: $3k → 8%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
WA
NY
MA
PA
CT
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Bonbright Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 27% of the giving stays in ME; by stated purpose, 31%.

Bonbright Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$185k · 19 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
28

Total granted

$185k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+8%

Still filing today

68%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthCrime & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • ND
    NATIONAL DANCE EDUCATION ORGANIZATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $46k · revenue +0%
  • TC
    THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL
    3× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue +15%
  • RY
    ROWAN-CABARRUS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2021–2025 · $17k · revenue +129%

Funded once

  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • AA
    ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • NM
    NOVA MIDDLE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
2
The Great Pond Foundation Inc

Our mission is to cultivate the resilience of our coastal pond ecosystems through science, collaboration, and education.

Environment
3
Save the Bay Inc

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…

Environment
4
Save Barnegat Bay Inc

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…

Environment
5
Chebeague & Cumberland Land Trust

Our mission is to permanently conserve and steward natural resources across our island and mainland communities for the benefit of current and future generations.

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6
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
7
Royal River Conservation Trust

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…

Environment
8
Saddle River Day School Inc

To inspire each child to achieve personal and academic excellence and to become a caring and ethical contributor to society.

—
9
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

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.

Environment
10
Rhode Island Bankers Association Inc

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…

Public Benefit
11
Stoneleigh-Burnham School

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…

Education
12
Rhode Island Marine Trade Association

Rimta's mission is to champion the rhode island marine industry through advocacy, education, environmental stewardship, innovation and promotion.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sandy Hook Promise Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
19/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LENORE RHYNE UNIVERSITY: $14,250 · OtherLENORE RHYNE UNIVERSITYNORTHERN LIGHTS BLUE HILL HOSPITAL: $10,000 · OtherNORTHERN LIGHTS BLUE HILL HOSPITALMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $10,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER: $10,000 · OtherARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL CLINICAL RESEAR…Individual grant recipient: $7,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNOVA MIDDLE SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherJOSHUA M FREEMAN ARTS FOUNDATION: $4,000 · OtherRINCON WATER SAFETY ORGANIZATION CORP: $4,000 · Other+29 more: $40,725 · Other+29 moreNATIONAL DANCE EDUCATION ORGANIZATION: $45,750 · EducationNATIONAL DANCE EDUCATION ORGANIZATIO…THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $20,500 · EducationTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOLSALISBURY SCHOOL INC: $9,500 · EducationSALISBURY SCHOOL INCVIRGINIA SQUASH RACQUETS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,750 · EducationVIRGINIA SQUASH RACQUETS ASSOCIATION…+2 more: $4,000 · EducationROWAN-CABARRUS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $17,250 · Human ServicesJESSE KLUMP MEMORIAL FUND INC: $3,000 · Human Services+1 more: $250 · Human ServicesGLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC: $9,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $7,250 · Recreation & SportsCHARLOTTE SOCCER ACADEMY: $3,000 · Recreation & SportsSave The Children Federation Inc: $13,500 · InternationalBLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST: $7,000 · EnvironmentLOWER SHORE LAND TRUST INC: $2,500 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC: $1,500 · EnvironmentAMIGOS DE TRES PALMAS INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentNAMI MAINE: $5,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $500 · Health
Other$105,725Education$85,500Human Services$20,500Recreation & Sports$19,250International$13,500Environment$12,000Health$7,500

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

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 budgetCommunity Foundation for RockbridgeBath & Allegh: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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
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.

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 Foundat…Maine Community Found…Estes Foundation Co M…Dominion Energy Chari…Carmax FoundationThe US Charitable Gif…Renaissance Charitabl…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Network for Good
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bonbright Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bonbright Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 26%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 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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