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Bt Charitable 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k13 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - KIESSLING GROUP | $150,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE - DR HANNA'S LAB | $150,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - COLLINS LAB | $150,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - DR KIMBERLY SEE LABORATORY | $150,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - FURST LAB | $150,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - ZHANG LAB | $150,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - DENNIS WHYTE JEFFREY FREIDBERG | $150,000 |
| NYC FIRST | $125,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - TSAI LAB | $125,000 |
| BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $55,000 |
| LOWER EASTSIDE GIRLS CLUB STEM PROGRAM | $50,000 |
| QUEENS PUBLICS LIBRARY | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $50,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - MIT MEDIA LAB - MITCH RESNICK | $50,000 |
| BEAM CENTER | $25,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $20k) 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 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 +15% since the first grant, against -48% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 22 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY3× · 2022–2024 · $450k · revenue +15%
- NFNYC FIRST Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $180k · revenue +263%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARLEM INC3× · 2021–2023 · $55k · revenue +143%
Funded once
- TLTHE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INCone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -48%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Museum of Natural History. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 35 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 CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds NYC FIRST Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARLEM INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SCRIPTED INC DBA CODE NATION ↗
- Who funds MOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds STEM KIDS NYC ↗
- Who funds Haywood Christian Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds Henderson County United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WNC Communities ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AVERY FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds MCDOWELL LFAC ↗
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: Dogwood Health Trust · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Manna Food Bank Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Bt Charitable 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.
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.
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