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BPI Foundation

The BPI Foundation is committed to charitable and education initiatives aimed at improving access to financial services and providing academic scholarship concerning sound financial regulation.

$46k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$171kSocial Science$100kArts & Culture$50kHealth$30kYouth Development$25kPublic Benefit$15kCommunity Improvement$15kScience & Tech$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
$11,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$587k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Committee on Capital Markets Regulation$30,000
Program on Int'l Fin Systems$11,000
Women in Housing and Finance$5,000
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Committee on Capital Markets Regulation: $50k → 8%Global War on Terror Memorial Foundation: $15k → 11%NAF: $10k → 17%Children's Hospital Foundation: $5k → 14%Drake University: $10k → 10%Junior Achievement USA: $10k → 9%Northwestern University: $10k → 14%Prevent Cancer Foundation: $25k → 9%National Capital Area Council Boy Scouts of America: $15k → 8%Committee on Capital Markets Regulation: $30k → 8%Working in Support of Education: $10k → 17%Trust for the National Mall: $35k → 14%The Resurrection Project: $10k → 14%Women in Housing and Finance: $5k → 9%Program on Int'l Fin Systems: $11k → 8%Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund: $10k → 17%Trust for the National Mall: $10k → 14%Program on International Financial Systems: $11k → 8%The Brookings Institution: $50k → 14%Program on International Financial Systems: $10k → 8%The Brookings Institution: $50k → 14%Program on International Financial Systems: $10k → 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

IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
CO
VA
MD
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of BPI Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

BPI Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$256k · 4 repeat orgs$171k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +227% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
14

Total granted

$256k
$155k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+227%
+30%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthSocial ScienceCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitOther
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

  • TB
    THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +46%
  • CO
    COMMITTEE ON CAPITAL MARKETS REGULATION INC C/O HAL S SCOTT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $80k · revenue +3%
  • TF
    TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $45k · revenue +288%

Funded once

  • PC
    Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +17%
  • GW
    GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +196%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -4%
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.

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The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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7
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
11
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
12
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naf; the most unlike its peers is Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn. 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

19 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. 19 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMITTEE ON CAPITAL MARKETS REGULATION INC C/O HAL S SCOTT: $80,000 · EducationCOMMITTEE ON CAPITAL MARKETS REGULATION IN…PROGRAM ON INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEMS INC: $31,000 · EducationPROGRAM ON INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEMS…DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSITYILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYWORKING IN SUPPORT OF EDUCATION INC: $10,000 · EducationWORKING IN SUPPORT OF EDUCATION INCWESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationWESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOLNAF: $10,000 · EducationNAFTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $100,000 · Social ScienceTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTIONTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL: $45,000 · Arts & CultureTRUST FOR THE…THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MOUNT VER…NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $15,000 · OtherNATIONAL CAPITAL…Program on Int'l Fin Systems: $11,000 · OtherProgram on Int'l…WOMEN IN HOUSING AND FINANCE INC: $5,000 · OtherWOMEN IN HOUSING…The Resurrection Project: $10,000 · OtherThe Resurrection…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $10,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEME…CITIES FOR FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT FUND INC: $10,000 · OtherCITIES FOR FINAN…Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn: $25,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthGLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Public BenefitNorthwestern University: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$161,000Social Science$100,000Arts & Culture$50,000Other$61,000Health$30,000Public Benefit$15,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON CAPITAL MARKETS REGULATION INC C/O HAL S SCOTT: $80,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL: $45,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPROGRAM ON INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEMS INC: $31,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPrevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING IN SUPPORT OF EDUCATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Resurrection Project: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIES FOR FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAF: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN IN HOUSING AND FINANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY10.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to BPI Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to BPI 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.

    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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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