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Richard A Busemeyer Atheist Foundation at a glance

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Richard A Busemeyer Atheist Foundation

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.

$560k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$267k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$625kInternational$620kCommunity Improvement$320kEducation$290kCrime & Legal$190kPublic Safety & Disaster$155kHealth$150kFood & Nutrition$130kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $250k+2 grants · $527k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
International Centre for EdTech Impact (WiKIT)$266,825
Unlocking Communities$260,000
STTE Foundation$25,000
Nogales$15,000
Enactus$10,000
KKIS Inc$8,450
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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%SAFE ALLIANCE INC: $45k → 10%SAFE ALLIANCE INC: $25k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
OH
CA
CO
MO
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 19 repeat orgs$635k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
2

Total granted

$2.4M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+120%

Still filing today

68%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $585k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
InternationalCivil RightsEducationPublic Safety & DisasterFood & NutritionHealthOther
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

  • INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $260k · revenue +39%
  • FUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE
    4× · 2017–2021 · $200k · revenue +147%
  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    4× · 2018–2021 · $170k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +120%
  • SP
    SAFE PASSAGE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +23%
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
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
2
Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology Inc

Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.

Science & Tech
3
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
4
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
5
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
6
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
7
Liberty Justice Center

To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…

Crime & Legal
8
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
9
Equal Access International

To create positive social change for millions of under-served people across the developing world by providing critically needed information and education through innovative media, appropriate technology and direct community engagement.

Health
10
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
11
Partnership On Ai to Benefit People and Society

Bringing diverse voices together across global sectors, disciplines, and demographics so developments in ai advance positive outcomes for people and society.

Science & Tech
12
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Alliance Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

20 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. 20 of the 27 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International Centre for EdTech Impact (WiKIT): $266,825 · OtherInternational Centre for EdTech Impact (WiKIT)ACLU: $220,000 · OtherACLUIndividual grant recipient: $220,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $200,000 · OtherFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCEHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $120,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $60,000 · OtherSafe Alliance Inc: $70,000 · Other+8 more: $235,000 · Other+8 moreINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $260,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PAREN…Unlocking Communities Inc: $260,000 · InternationalUnlocking Communities IncMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $145,000 · InternationalMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INCChildren International: $50,000 · InternationalChildren International+1 more: $8,450 · InternationalEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $170,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE …COMPASSION & CHOICES: $150,000 · Civil RightsCOMPASSION & C…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL…ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $155,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $155,000 · Crime & LegalFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $130,000 · Food & NutritionFREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · Religion
Other$1,391,825International$723,450Civil Rights$400,000Public Safety & Disaster$155,000Crime & Legal$155,000Food & Nutrition$130,000Religion$80,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $260,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $200,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $170,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $155,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $155,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $150,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $145,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $130,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Alliance Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChildren International: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Richard A Busemeyer Atheist Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard A Busemeyer Atheist Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–75%
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 27 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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The endowment market
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The camps
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By state
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