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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.

$152k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2026
18
Organizations funded FY2025
22%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$500
Largest grant, FY2026
$116,850
Organizations funded a year
13 to 27
FY2021 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
8
Total assets, FY2026
$382k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 22% of the organizations Bundy Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY2026still arriving18$151k33%
FY202518$29k22%
FY202413$58k15%
FY202327$30k22%
FY202221$41k38%
FY202125$51kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2026.

Arts & Culture$226kEducation$77kHealth$26kReligion$23kFood & Nutrition$5kYouth Development$4kEnvironment$2kScience & Tech$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
CT
CA
CO
MD
AZ
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, 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 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($68k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bundy Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChicago Children's Museum: $216,350 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetOcean Reef Medical Center Foundation Inc: $25,400 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGarrison Forest School Inc: $6,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWinnetka Community House Inc: $4,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDefending the Early Years Inc: $2,810 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Alliance for Early Childhood: $1,845 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetChicago Horticultural Society: $1,719 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHyde Park Art Center: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLowell Observatory: $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGroton School: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Institute of Chicago: $770 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Florida Pbs Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Junior Golf Association Inc: $521 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChikaming Open Lands: $515 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWinnetka Historical Society: $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Volunteer Center: $350 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNational Louis University: $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Families for Public Schools: $200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Winnetka Public Schools Foundation: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetErikson Institute: $50 over 1y, 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 22.

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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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL17.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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How do I get to Bundy Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bundy Family Foundation 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 Bundy Family Foundation

How much does Bundy Family Foundation give?
Bundy Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $152,217 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 27 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
What does Bundy Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (62%), Education (21%), Health (7%).
Who are Bundy Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Chicago Children's Museum ($216k), Ocean Reef Medical Center Foundation Inc ($25k), Christ Church Inc ($21k).
Does Bundy Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bundy Family Foundation 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 Bundy Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Tinberg Foundation, Frank Family Foundation.
Where is Bundy Family Foundation based?
Bundy Family Foundation is based in FL.

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 53 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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