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Bundy Family Foundation
Its FY2026 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 FY2021–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k17 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $117k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chicago Children's Museum | $116,850 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Christ Church | $2,000 |
| Christ Church Christmas Basket | $1,167 |
| Alliance For Early Childhood | $1,000 |
| Garrison Forest School | $1,000 |
| Wheaton College | $1,000 |
| Brevard School Foundation | $1,000 |
| WTTW | $500 |
| Lowell Observatory | $500 |
| South Florida PBS | $500 |
| Winnetka Community House | $500 |
| Keys Childrens Foundation | $400 |
| Chicago Botanic Garden | $300 |
| Carleton College | $100 |
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 (FY26–26, $400) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +26% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2026, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- CCChicago Children's Museum6× · 2021–2026 · $216k · revenue +50%
- WCWINNETKA COMMUNITY HOUSE INC6× · 2021–2026 · $5k · revenue +92%
- DTDEFENDING THE EARLY YEARS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $3k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- WFWorld Foundation Girl Guides Scoutsone grant, 2025 · $3k
HYDE PARK ART CENTERone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -62%- TCTarget- Christ chuch christmas baskone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
To provide an excellent liberal arts education for women who will make a difference in the world.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
Through nationally distinctive programs connecting liberal education to professional practice, willamette university prepares graduates to turn knowledge into action and lead lives of achievement, contribution, and meaning.
Windward school is a dynamic college-preparatory school that challenges each student to achieve excellence in a nurturing, inclusive community. windward teachers, parents, and administrators work together to inspire our students to be…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The university strives to attain the ideal of a liberal arts education while providing unique opportunities with its distinctive curricula and programs. a liberal arts education fosters creativity, critical thinking, effective…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Horticultural Society and the most unlike its peers is Lowell Observatory. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 59 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 53 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 Chicago Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds WINNETKA COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DEFENDING THE EARLY YEARS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HYDE PARK ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds LOWELL OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds BREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VOLUNTEER CENTER ↗
- Who funds WINNETKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds National Louis University ↗
- Who funds Illinois Families for Public Schools ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Tinberg Foundation · Frank Family Foundation · Kemper Educational and Charitable Fund · Charles H and Beverly E Shaw Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Allstate Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment 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 Bundy Family 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.
- South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
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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