· Private foundation
Bullard Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HERMAN LUCERNE MEMORIAL FDN | $5,000 |
| BULLSUGAR ALLIANCE INC | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FISHING ASSOC | $5,000 |
| THE SIERRA CLUB | $5,000 |
| SURFRIDER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC | $5,000 |
| BONEFISH AND TARPON UNLIMITED | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERITIES UNION | $2,500 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES | $2,000 |
| SHARE THE STOKE FDN | $1,500 |
| THE NON GMO PROJECT | $1,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% of your 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.
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.
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.
Improve the future of gamefish stocks in Florida
Dedicated to the conservation and preservation of the waters in and around south florida through wise fishery & watermanagement practices, while recognizing the importance of sport fishing to the local economy and the cultural heritage of…
To safeguard Florida's water, wildlife, and wild spaces by taking action today to prevent irreversible loss tomorrow.
Marine research
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
To preserve america's everglades and florida bay as natural resources.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Unify and strengthen the reef fish industry to achieve sustainability and accountability using individual fishing quotas to manage the catch.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Captains for Clean Water Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Non-Gmo Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 12 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 CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗
- Who funds HERMAN LUCERNE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FISHING ASSOC ↗
- Who funds BULLSUGAR ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds THE NON-GMO PROJECT ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Bullard 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, a single department, or state — 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.