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Bostock Family Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.8M
Granted FY2020
5
Grants FY2020
4
Organizations funded FY2020
0%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$1,527,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 17
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
5
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 0% of the organizations Bostock Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
HealthEducationPhilanthropyOther
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
FY20204$1.7M0%
FY201914$1.8M29%
FY201810$1.2M40%
FY201717$313kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Education$4.2MPhilanthropy$1.1MCivil Rights$400kRecreation & Sports$171kSocial Science$117kHealth$44kEnvironment$31kReligion$26kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MD
NC
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Duke University$4,098,60040%
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Inc$400,00043%
United States Ski Team Foundation$160,00040%
The Aspen Institute Inc$115,00030%
Hydrocephalus Association$30,00020%
Presbyterian Church in the Town of Rye$25,5003n/a
Council for a Strong America$25,00010%
New York Botanical Garden$18,25010%
The Greenwich Land Trust Inc$13,00030%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$11,00020%
Show all 22 grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($105k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bostock Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDuke University: $4,098,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNational Underground Railroad Freedom Center Inc: $400,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $160,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Aspen Institute Inc: $115,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHydrocephalus Association: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCouncil for a Strong America: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNew York Botanical Garden: $18,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Greenwich Land Trust Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Greenwich Library: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rockefeller University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys Town Jerusalem Foundation of America: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSteppingstone Scholars Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Forces Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNational Dance Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jay Heritage Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 18.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA14.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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How do I get to Bostock Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bostock Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Bostock Family Foundation

How much does Bostock Family Foundation give?
Bostock Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $2,767,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Bostock Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Education (69%), Philanthropy (17%), Civil Rights (7%).
Who are Bostock Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Duke University ($4.1M), National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Inc ($400k), United States Ski Team Foundation ($160k).
Does Bostock Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bostock Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bostock Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Bostock Family Foundation based?
Bostock Family Foundation is based in MI.

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 26 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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