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Bullard Foundation at a glance

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Bullard Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$45k
Granted FY2018
12
Grants FY2018
5
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2018 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$796k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FISHING ASSOC$5,000
SURFRIDER FOUNDATION$5,000
BULLSUGAR ALLIANCE INC$5,000
CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC$5,000
THE SIERRA CLUB$5,000
BONEFISH AND TARPON UNLIMITED$5,000
HERMAN LUCERNE MEMORIAL FDN$5,000
THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERITIES UNION$2,500
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$2,500
ANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES$2,000
SHARE THE STOKE FDN$1,500
THE NON GMO PROJECT$1,500
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE SIERRA CLUB: $5k → 10%BULLSUGAR ALLIANCE INC: $5k → 10%CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $5k → 11%SHARE THE STOKE FDN: $2k → 11%HERMAN LUCERNE MEMORIAL FDN: $5k → 13%INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FISHING ASSOC: $5k → 15%ANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES: $2k → 8%THE NON GMO PROJECT: $2k → 12%THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERITIES UNION: $3k → 10%BONEFISH AND TARPON UNLIMITED: $5k → 13%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.
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 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
Angler Action Foundation Inc

Improve the future of gamefish stocks in Florida

Animals
2
Clean Reefs
Environment
3
Florida Keys Fishing Guides

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…

Animals
4
Florida Wildlife Federation

To safeguard Florida's water, wildlife, and wild spaces by taking action today to prevent irreversible loss tomorrow.

Animals
5
California Sportfishing Protection Allia
Environment
6
Symbioseas

Marine research

Science & Tech
7
Wildcoast

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.…

Environment
8
The Everglades Trust Inc

To preserve america's everglades and florida bay as natural resources.

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9
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
10
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
11
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
12
Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders Alliance

Unify and strengthen the reef fish industry to achieve sustainability and accountability using individual fishing quotas to manage the catch.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Captains for Clean Water Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FISHING ASSOC: $5,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FISHING ASSOCBULLSUGAR ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 · OtherBULLSUGAR ALLIANCE INCSIERRA CLUB: $5,000 · OtherSIERRA CLUBTHE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERITIES UNION: $2,500 · OtherTHE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERITIES UNIONNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $2,500 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONSHARE THE STOKE FDN: $1,500 · OtherSHARE THE STOKE FDNTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATIONCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER …BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $5,000 · AnimalsBONEFISH & TARPON…ANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES: $2,000 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE OF …HERMAN LUCERNE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsHERMAN LUCER…THE NON-GMO PROJECT: $1,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$21,500Environment$10,000Animals$7,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Food & Nutrition$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FISHING ASSOC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHERMAN LUCERNE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetBULLSUGAR ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NON-GMO PROJECT: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bullard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bullard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 12 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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