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J W Bagley 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.

$751k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$24,990
Largest grant, FY2024
$128,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$17M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations J W Bagley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyOther
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
FY2024still arriving21$751k0%
FY202323$851k0%
FY202223$871k0%
FY202124$1.2M42%
FY202019$666k32%
FY201921$670k19%
FY201820$653k20%
FY201725$650kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$4.5MHuman Services$303kYouth Development$270kRecreation & Sports$257kHealth$181kPhilanthropy$163kScience & Tech$80kArts & Culture$48kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IN
CA
LA
MS
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College$484,00040%
Austin College$264,00080%
Fordham University$230,00060%
Harlem Children's Zone Inc$162,50070%
Foundation for Students Rising Above$162,50061%
Providence St Mel School$142,50070%
United to Learn$100,00041%
Joshua Foundation Inc$90,0001n/a
Faith Christian School Inc$77,95030%
Trinity River Mission Inc$65,00032%
Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of J W Bagley Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College$484,00040%
Austin College$264,00080%
Fordham University$230,00060%
Harlem Children's Zone Inc$162,50070%
Foundation for Students Rising Above$162,50061%
Providence St Mel School$142,50070%
United to Learn$100,00041%
Joshua Foundation Inc$90,0001n/a
Faith Christian School Inc$77,95030%
Trinity River Mission Inc$65,00032%
Dallas Hearing Foundation Inc$25,00018%
Retina Foundation of the Southwest$12,50010%

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget J W Bagley Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPresident-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College: $484,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAustin College: $264,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFordham University: $230,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHarlem Children's Zone Inc: $162,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Students Rising Above: $162,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetProvidence St Mel School: $142,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetUnited to Learn: $100,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFaith Christian School Inc: $77,950 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTrinity River Mission Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetDallas Hearing Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetRetina Foundation of the Southwest: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 11.

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 Dallas FoundationTX15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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Find your warmest path to J W Bagley 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 J W Bagley Foundation

How much does J W Bagley Foundation give?
J W Bagley Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $750,920 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does J W Bagley Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (70%), Human Services (5%), Youth Development (4%).
Who are J W Bagley Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College ($484k), Austin College ($264k), Fordham University ($230k).
Does J W Bagley Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does J W Bagley 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 J W Bagley Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dallas Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
Where is J W Bagley Foundation based?
J W Bagley Foundation is based in TX.

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 49 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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