· Private foundation
Bound To Stay Bound Books Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $82k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Prairieland United Way | $25,000 |
| Dollywood Foundation | $18,000 |
| Texas Library Assocation | $15,000 |
| AASL | $12,500 |
| Reading is Fundamental | $11,000 |
| ALA | $9,000 |
| Missouri University of Science and Technology | $8,500 |
| Moravian University | $8,500 |
| Illinois State University | $8,500 |
| University of Buffalo | $8,000 |
| Rutgers University | $8,000 |
| San Jose University | $8,000 |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| Jacksonville Area Museum | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 11 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PUPrairieland United Way Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $168k · revenue +1%
- ALAMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION6× · 2019–2024 · $112k · revenue +8%
- TLTEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION7× · 2019–2025 · $85k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- DUDOMINICAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue +22%
- VSVALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $16k
- AAAmerican Assocation of School Librariansone grant, 2023 · $13k
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.
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.
Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…
Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 96 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Prairieland United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds MORGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FARMERS STATE BANK AND TRUST DEPT ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds JACKSONVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION CO LESLIE DEFRATES ↗
- Who funds JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Illinois State Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Loyola University Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOB FREESEN YMCA ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Delta Foundation · Prairieland United Way Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bound To Stay Bound Books Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bound To Stay Bound Books Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Loyola University Maryland Inc: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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