· Private foundation
Bruce and Ann Bachmann Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k51 grants · $117k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 5430 KIDS TENNIS FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| PAWS CHICAGO | $10,500 |
| GROWING GARDENS | $10,000 |
| ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $6,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKIES | $6,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $5,500 |
| USC SHOAH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FILL A HEART FOR KIDS | $5,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $5,000 |
| FIREBIRD COMMUNITY ARTS | $5,000 |
| NORTH SHORE EXCHANGE | $4,775 |
| CURT'S CAFE | $4,000 |
| RAVINIA | $3,500 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL | $3,500 |
| A SAFE PLACE | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 15 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PCPAWS CHICAGO6× · 2019–2024 · $62k · revenue +151%
- WTWriters Theatre Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +8%
- IDINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES6× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -33%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +107%
- TSTHE SIERRA CLUBone grant, 2020 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is After School Matters Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kicking for the Games. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
105 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 105 of the 156 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds 5430 Kids Tennis Foundation ↗
- Who funds Writers Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES ↗
- Who funds GROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds KESHET ↗
- Who funds LUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds La Rabida Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds BOULDER PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BELLE-RIVIERE INC ↗
- Who funds BOULDER FOOD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENT FOR THE AMERICAS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUVENILE DIABETES CCIM CHARITY GOLF INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Dr Scholl Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Forefront · AEC Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bruce and Ann Bachmann Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.