Georgia · Private foundation
Bug and Bean Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $3.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 74%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 19
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 74% of the organizations Bug and Bean Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 82% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $3.9M | 47% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $3.6M | 74% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $1.1M | 63% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $25k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $680k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $670k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carnegie Mellon University | $1,300,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Paideia School Inc | $858,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Center for Civic Innovation Inc | $460,000 | 2 | 26% |
| Every Student Every Community Inc | $400,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Georgia Resilience and Opportunity Fund Dba the Gro Fund | $250,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Brevard Transylvania County Inc | $250,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Open Space Institute Land Trust Inc | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Summit Charter School Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Village Micro Fund | $100,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 3% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bug and Bean Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Litowitz Foundation Inc · A Friends Foundation Trust · The Kendeda Fund · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Bug and Bean Fund
- How much does Bug and Bean Fund give?
- Bug and Bean Fund reported 18 grants totaling $3,896,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Bug and Bean Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (37%), Education (28%), Community Improvement (11%).
- Who are Bug and Bean Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Carnegie Mellon University ($1.3M), The Paideia School Inc ($858k), Center for Civic Innovation Inc ($460k).
- Does Bug and Bean Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 74% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bug and Bean Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bug and Bean Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, Litowitz Foundation Inc, A Friends Foundation Trust.
- Where is Bug and Bean Fund based?
- Bug and Bean Fund is based in GA.
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