· Private foundation
Howard S Bunn Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| New England Conservancy of Music | $20,000 |
| Jackson Lab | $10,709 |
| Phillips Academy | $8,000 |
| St Paul Episcopal Chruch | $7,000 |
| Pingry School | $6,569 |
| Christ Church | $6,000 |
| Fay School | $4,300 |
| Tunnel to Towers | $3,839 |
| St Jude Children Hospital | $3,839 |
| Clevemand Clinic Indian River Medic | $2,700 |
| St Theresa School | $2,560 |
| Campaign for the Third Century | $2,560 |
| Sconset Trust | $2,500 |
| Harvard College | $2,000 |
| Foundation -Morristown Memo Medical | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of its 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.
35 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +23%- EMEMMANUEL MUSIC INC4× · 2017–2020 · $39k · revenue +101%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN7× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- EGEMMANUEL GOSPEL CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $14k
- VBVERO BEACH DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +10%
- CCCleveland Clinicone grant, 2019 · $4k
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.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. amherst brings together the most…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 50 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 WELLS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICONNECTS INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds APPLE HILL CENTER FOR CHAMBER MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds MORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD GARDENS ↗
- Who funds THE PINGRY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 'SCONSET TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Howard S Bunn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard S Bunn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Emmanuel Music Inc: 5% of income from government
- Musiconnects Inc: 5% of income from government
- Rockport Music Inc: 4% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
- Morristown-Beard School: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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