· Private foundation
Bridgemill Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $485k
- $250k+2 grants · $725k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND - 1899 SHS ALPHABET INC CL A | $367,352 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND - 1559 SHS AMAZON COM INC | $357,572 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY - 238 SHS MASTERCARD INC CL A | $127,178 |
| ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL - 338 SHS VISA INC CL A | $106,298 |
| AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC - 441 SHS AMAZON COM INC | $101,148 |
| ZANAAFRICA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC - 95 SHS MASTERCARD INC CL A | $50,764 |
| RESOURCE (NP COMM ENTERPRISE INC) - 145 SHS VISA INC CL A | $45,601 |
| THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION - 86 SHS VISA INC CL A | $27,054 |
| REACH PREP INC - 81 SHS VISA INC CL A | $25,474 |
| ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL - 111 SHS ALPHABET INC CL A | $21,472 |
| NEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY INC - 32 SHS VISA INC CL A | $10,099 |
| FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC - 56 SHS AMAZON COM INC | $10,087 |
| NEW CANAAN NATURE CENTER ASSOCIATION INC | $10,000 |
| ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY | $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 (FY19–24, $301k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of Bridgemill Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED2× · 2018–2020 · $146k · revenue +111%- FAFARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +19%
- NCNew Canaan Nature Center Association Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- MGMS GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING-DAVID C WILSON FUND DAFone grant, 2021 · $1.2M
- EDENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND - 2023 SHS APPLE INCone grant, 2023 · $396k
- EDENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND - 560 SHS THERMOone grant, 2022 · $309k
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.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…
To engage the united states and its citizens in the work of african parks and to promote access to american experience and expertise in the african parks actiities by 1) raising funds for specific projects, activities, training, equipment…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 124 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.
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Bridgemill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bridgemill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Farm and Wilderness Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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