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Bull's Head Foundation Inc

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.

$72k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$4,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 22
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$540k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Bull's Head Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$68k20%
FY202317$71k0%
FY202222$78k5%
FY202122$56k9%
FY202022$49k23%
FY201920$40k25%
FY201817$31kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$102kInternational$69kEnvironment$48kArts & Culture$48kFood & Nutrition$36kPublic Safety & Disaster$35kCrime & Legal$33kPhilanthropy$12kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MT
NY
MA
CA
DC
HI
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($24k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bull's Head Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $33,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Greater New York Inc: $20,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKind Inc: $20,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $20,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetI'm Your Neighbor Books: $19,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Full Frame Initiative Inc: $18,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Children's Aid Society: $18,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVisiting Nurse Service of New York: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPro Publica Inc: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $17,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetScleroderma Research Foundation: $14,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNational Forest Foundation: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe 52nd Street Project Inc: $11,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetForest Society of Maine: $11,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFresh Air Fund: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank for New York City: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Hudson Peconic Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReach Out and Read Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Bernard's School Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

American Endowment FoundationOH10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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Find your warmest path to Bull's Head Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Bull's Head Foundation Inc

How much does Bull's Head Foundation Inc give?
Bull's Head Foundation Inc reported 21 grants totaling $72,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Bull's Head Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (25%), International (17%), Environment (12%).
Who are Bull's Head Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: World Central Kitchen Inc ($33k), Planned Parenthood of Greater New York Inc ($21k), Kind Inc ($20k).
Does Bull's Head Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bull's Head Foundation Inc 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 Bull's Head Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Network for Good, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Bull's Head Foundation Inc based?
Bull's Head Foundation Inc is based in MA.

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 35 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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