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Bunge Tom F Charitable Trust at a glance

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Bunge Tom F Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$141kYouth Development$101kHuman Services$77kReligion$30kHealth$10kFood & Nutrition$10kCommunity Improvement$5k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$941k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY$10,000
INDIANA TEEN CHALLENGE$10,000
CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC$10,000
UNITED RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY ST JOSEPH CNT$5,000
LIFE TREATMENT CENTERS INC$5,000
02The need
03

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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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%THE LGBTQ CENTER INC: $5k → 13%THE LGBTQ CENTER INC: $3k → 13%THE LGBTQ CENTER INC: $5k → 13%THE LGBTQ CENTER INC: $5k → 13%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY: $15k → 13%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY: $15k → 13%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY: $10k → 13%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY: $5k → 13%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY: $15k → 13%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY: $11k → 13%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY: $10k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$321k · 8 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$321k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+14%

Still filing today

75%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SA
    SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY
    4× · 2018–2024 · $55k · revenue +147%
  • IT
    INDIANA TEEN CHALLENGE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +2%
  • TL
    THE LGBTQ CENTER INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $18k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • IH
    INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OF
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • VISTA MARIA
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +14%
  • HF
    HOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -66%
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.

04Its 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
Shelter House Community Shelter and Transition Services

Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.

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2
House of Hope

Assisting and housing females in recovery

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3
Good Samaritan Mission Inc

To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.

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4
Home for Homeless Women
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5
Marys House of Restoration

Marys house mission is to provide transitional living environment which provides residential care, individual and group counceling, assessment

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6
Downtown Women's Center Inc

Mission to provide housing and services to overcome homelessness and addiction vision a community where a pathway toward self-sufficiency exists for women, children and families values dwc is faithful to our mission by providing a…

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7
The House That Mercy Built

Faith based residential program that will provide a safe environment for women to be transformed from teh inside out. a place that helps women bring order, accountability, and a strong spiritual foundation where there has been chaos, lack…

Religion
8
Sleep Tight Tonight Transitional Services Inc

Transitional housing homeless shelter and feeding substance abuse recovery

Housing & Shelter
9
St John the Evangelist Homeless Shelter Inc

To honor the dignity, restore hope and create lasting change for homeless and those at risk in the green bay area.

Housing & Shelter
10
Transitional Housing & Care Center Inc

Emergency shelter for homeless

Human Services
11
Mercy Housing & Shelter Corporation

Mercy housing and shelter corporation provides housing assistance and supportive services to persons who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. mercy works to empower its clients to become independent, so they may live and work with…

Housing & Shelter
12
Julia Greeley Home Inc

Julia greeley home, inc. serves single unaccompanied women in the denver metro area between the ages of 18 and 64 who are struggling with chronic or repeated homelessness. the program fulfills existing gaps between overnight short term…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for the Homeless Inc; the most unlike its peers is St Margarets House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $75,285 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INCSALVATION ARMY: $45,285 · OtherSALVATION ARMYINDIANA TEEN CHALLENGE INC: $20,000 · OtherINDIANA TEEN CHALLENGE INCINTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK: $15,285 · OtherINTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORKINTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OF: $10,000 · OtherINTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OFVISTA MARIA: $10,000 · OtherVISTA MARIA+1 more: $5,000 · OtherYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $81,285 · Human ServicesYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOS…THE LGBTQ CENTER INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesTHE LGBTQ CENTER INCSHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY: $55,285 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER ASSOCIAT…LIFE TREATMENT CENTERS INC: $10,285 · HealthNEW DAY INTAKE CENTER: $10,000 · HealthHOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionSOUTH BEND HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,285 · Community ImprovementSt Margarets House: $4,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$180,855Human Services$99,285Housing & Shelter$55,285Health$20,285Food & Nutrition$10,000Community Improvement$5,285Recreation & Sports$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $81,285 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $75,285 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY: $55,285 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetINDIANA TEEN CHALLENGE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LGBTQ CENTER INC: $18,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetLIFE TREATMENT CENTERS INC: $10,285 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVISTA MARIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEW DAY INTAKE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSOUTH BEND HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,285 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Margarets House: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Carroll F V Char Tr-M…The Pokagon Fund IncKlockow Harvey R and …Clark Sa & Fp Mem Fd …Community Foundation …United Way of St Jose…Judd Leighton Foundat…American Electric Pow…Nisource Charitable F…Fields Foundation Irr…Muessel Ellison Mem I…1st Source Bank Found…
Carroll F V Char Tr-MainMO22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · The Pokagon Fund Inc · Klockow Harvey R and Doris Fdn · Clark Sa & Fp Mem Fd Irr Tua · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · United Way of St Joseph County Inc · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Fields Foundation Irr Tua · Muessel Ellison Mem Irr Tua · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx

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 Bunge Tom F Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bunge Tom F Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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