Pennsylvania · Private foundation
John and Carole Bartholdson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $51k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $256k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations John and Carole Bartholdson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $51k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $47k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $36k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $31k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $35k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $25k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $20k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $29k | 68% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania State University | $79,650 | 8 | n/a |
| The Bryn Mawr Hospital Foundation | $55,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society | $16,808 | 6 | 0% |
| St James School | $12,500 | 4 | n/a |
| The Agnes Irwin School | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Surrey Services for Seniors Inc | $9,500 | 9 | 0% |
| New England Life Flight Inc | $8,100 | 7 | 0% |
| Sankaty Head Foundation Inc | $7,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Good Works Inc | $6,750 | 8 | 0% |
| Food for the Poor Inc | $6,090 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($42k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John and Carole Bartholdson Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Connelly Foundation · E Murdoch Family Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Hamilton Family Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Robert E Lamb Foundation Inc · Chester County Community Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund
How this is measured
Compare John and Carole Bartholdson Foundation with peer funders
About John and Carole Bartholdson Foundation
- How much does John and Carole Bartholdson Foundation give?
- John and Carole Bartholdson Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $50,675 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does John and Carole Bartholdson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Health (31%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
- Who are John and Carole Bartholdson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pennsylvania State University ($80k), The Bryn Mawr Hospital Foundation ($55k), The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society ($17k).
- Does John and Carole Bartholdson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John and Carole Bartholdson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John and Carole Bartholdson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Connelly Foundation, E Murdoch Family Foundation, The Gordon Charter Foundation.
- Where is John and Carole Bartholdson Foundation based?
- John and Carole Bartholdson Foundation is based in PA.
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