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Bunny Fund Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$91k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$65kEnvironment$25kRecreation & Sports$8kYouth Development$8kInternational$5kEducation$5kAnimals$5kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS & WRITERS INC$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$20,000
ACTIVE MINDS INC$5,000
CITY HARVEST INC$5,000
THE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND$5,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$5,000
THE FRICK COLLECTION$1,000
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 (FY22–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ALL OUR KIDS INC: $3k → 8%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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$188k · 10 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
11

Total granted

$188k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
+25%

Still filing today

80%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • ALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS AND WRITERS INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +37%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +95%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $8k · revenue +167%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +5%
  • MO
    METROPOLITAN OPERA
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • BT
    BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +46%
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.

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Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
2
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
3
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
4
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
5
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
6
New York Historical Society

The founding mission of the new-york historical society ("the new york historical "tnyh") is to collect, preserve, and interpret, for the broadest possible public, material relevant to the history of the united states in general and of new…

Arts & Culture
7
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
8
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
10
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
11
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
12
The Royal National Theatre

Theatre can lead to extraordinary moments of shared imagination. it enables us to stand in anothers shoes to better understand ourselves and the world around us. it shows us who we are, who we have been, who we could be. the nt delivers on…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc; the most unlike its peers is Early Music Foundation Inc. 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

21 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. 21 of the 26 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $102,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $24,500 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONTHIRTEENWNET: $8,000 · Other+9 more: $19,000 · Other+9 moreALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS AND WRITERS INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS …THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY S…BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION I…NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INCROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY …METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3,000 · Arts & CultureEARLY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsActive Minds Inc: $5,000 · HealthTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5,000 · EducationBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $5,000 · AnimalsCITY HARVEST INC: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$153,500Arts & Culture$59,000Recreation & Sports$7,500Health$5,000Education$5,000Animals$5,000Food & Nutrition$5,000

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 budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS AND WRITERS INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $24,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetActive Minds Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALL OUR KIDS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetEARLY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bunny Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bunny Fund Inc. 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bunny Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Bunny Fund Inc 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.

    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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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