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Bruce and Ann Bachmann Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$149k
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$203kHealth$154kHuman Services$137kRecreation & Sports$119kReligion$94kFood & Nutrition$77kAnimals$73kInternational$68kOther$0
02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k51 grants · $117k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
$2,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FILL A HEART FOR KIDS$5,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$5,000
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION$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
02The need
03

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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDS OF BELL-RIVIERE: $4k → 9%HOSPICE PROMISE FOUNDATION: $250 → 17%SHOES THAT FIT: $500 → 14%FRIENDS OF BELL-RIVIERE: $3k → 9%IGNITE ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $2k → 12%FRIENDS OF BELL-RIVIERE: $3k → 9%IGNITE ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $2k → 12%FRIENDS OF BELL-RIVIERE: $2k → 9%IGNITE ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $1k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%FRIENDS OF BELL-RIVIERE: $2k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF COLORADO: $5k → 12%SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NON-VIOLENCE: $1k → 12%SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NON-VIOLENCE: $1k → 12%FAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE: $2k → 14%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $10k → 12%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $8k → 12%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $7k → 12%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $4k → 12%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $3k → 12%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $3k → 12%JCC CHICAGO: $2k → 14%THE JUNIOR COUNCIL: $500 → 14%HUNGER RESOURCE NETWORK: $250 → 14%WELL OF MERCY: $2k → 14%WELL OF MERCY: $500 → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $6k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 14%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

MT
IL
WI
NY
OR
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
DC
LA
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$923k · 79 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
59

Total granted

$923k
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+21%

Still filing today

65%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • PC
    PAWS CHICAGO
    6× · 2019–2024 · $62k · revenue +151%
  • WT
    Writers Theatre Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +8%
  • ID
    INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES
    6× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -26%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +107%
  • II
    ITEC ISRAEL TENNIS & EDUCATION CENTERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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.

1
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
2
Chicago Opera Theater

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.

Arts & Culture
3
The Adler Planetarium

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
5
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
6
Chicago Public Education Fund

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.

Education
7
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
8
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
9
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

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.

Health
10
Alternatives Inc

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…

Health
11
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
12
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is After School Matters Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

105 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. 105 of the 156 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/105
Grantees still filing
79/105
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AM SHALOM: $55,000 · OtherAM SHALOMILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $32,820 · OtherITC - ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS: $28,400 · OtherKESHET: $27,000 · OtherFIDF - FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $21,500 · OtherTEMPLE BETH EL: $21,225 · OtherGROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY: $31,000 · Other+92 more: $414,054 · Other+92 moreWriters Theatre Inc: $37,700 · Arts & CultureWriters The…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $14,500 · Arts & CultureThe United …DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $9,500 · Arts & CultureDENVER CENT…DENVER ART MUSEUM: $9,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART …BOULDER COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureELAWA FARM FOUNDATION: $5,500 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $30,270 · Arts & Culture+14 moreINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $33,150 · Human ServicesINTERCAMBI…CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $29,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO…FRIENDS OF BELLE-RIVIERE INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesIGNITE ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $4,000 · Human Services+10 more: $11,900 · Human Services+10 morePAWS CHICAGO: $61,700 · AnimalsENVIRONMENT FOR THE AMERICAS INC: $8,500 · Animals+2 more: $2,000 · AnimalsLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC: $19,750 · HealthLa Rabida Children's Hospital: $16,500 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $10,000 · HealthCANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $7,500 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR HEARING AND SPEECH RESOURCES: $3,000 · HealthBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION: $3,000 · Health+4 more: $5,000 · Health5430 Kids Tennis Foundation: $47,750 · Recreation & SportsROCKY MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY: $7,000 · Recreation & SportsCOLORADO YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $16,950 · Food & NutritionBOULDER FOOD RESCUE: $12,750 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$630,999Arts & Culture$111,970Human Services$96,050Animals$72,200Health$64,750Recreation & Sports$58,750Food & Nutrition$40,700

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $61,700 over 6y, 0.1% of budget5430 Kids Tennis Foundation: $47,750 over 5y, 56% of budgetWriters Theatre Inc: $37,700 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $33,150 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY: $31,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $29,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKESHET: $27,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC: $19,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $16,950 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLa Rabida Children's Hospital: $16,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOULDER PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $15,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $14,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BELLE-RIVIERE INC: $13,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetBOULDER FOOD RESCUE: $12,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $12,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENT FOR THE AMERICAS INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUVENILE DIABETES CCIM CHARITY GOLF INC: $8,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetCANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $7,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $6,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $6,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH SHORE EXCHANGE NFP: $5,775 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOULDER COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetELAWA FARM FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC: $5,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEELA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIREBIRD COMMUNITY ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER: $4,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCURT'S CAFE: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEEONE: $4,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO: $3,540 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR THE SILENT VOICES: $3,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $3,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $3,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC MEDIA INSTITUTE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR HEARING AND SPEECH RESOURCES: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKids Above All Illinois: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG CHICAGO AUTHORS: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Community Foundation …Dr Scholl FoundationThe Chicago Community…Jewish Federation of …John D and Catherine …Northwestern Memorial…Polk Bros Foundation …The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…ForefrontAEC Trust
Colorado Gives FoundationCO23.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bruce and Ann Bachmann Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bruce and Ann Bachmann Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 156 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home