· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2026.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Wheaton College | $1,000 |
| Brevard School Foundation | $1,000 |
| Alliance For Early Childhood | $1,000 |
| Garrison Forest School | $1,000 |
| Lowell Observatory | $500 |
| South Florida PBS | $500 |
| WTTW | $500 |
| Winnetka Community House | $500 |
| Keys Childrens Foundation | $400 |
| Chicago Botanic Garden | $300 |
| Lyric Opera | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
How this is measured
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS 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 WINNETKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE VOLUNTEER CENTER ↗
- Who funds National Louis University ↗
- Who funds Illinois Families for Public Schools ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bundy Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bundy Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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