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· Private foundation
RICHARD AND MARY BARD FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$66k
Granted FY2024
12
Grants
6
Communities
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of RICHARD AND MARY BARD FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2024 · 12 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
- THE OHIO STAT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATI$10,000
- TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH$10,000
- CONSRVATIVE PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE$10,000
- TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$10,000
- THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION$10,000
- NORTH NAPLES UNITED METHODIST CHURC$5,000
- HILLSDALE COLLEGE$5,000
- NORTH ROME BAPTIST CHURCH$2,000
- SIGMA CHI FOUNDATION$1,000
- FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST$1,000
- HOPE COLLEGE$1,000
- COMMUNITY HOSPITALS & WELLNESS$1,000
02The need
03
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 70% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$129k · 11 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
11
5
Total granted
$129k
$11k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+46%
+79%
Still filing today
36%
80%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationPublic BenefitPhilanthropyAnimalsEnvironmentOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +63%
HILLSDALE COLLEGE2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +46%- HCHOPE COLLEGE2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- BABRYAN AREA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +79%
- LHLENAWEE HUMANE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $250 · revenue +79%
- NBNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDENgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $145 · revenue +79%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
1
Hampden-Sydney College
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
Education
2
Hiram College
The mission of hiram college is to foster intellectual excellence and social responsibility enabling our students to thrive in their chosen careers, flourish in life and face the urgent challenges of our times.
Education
3
Lehigh University
Lehigh university strives to earn international prominence as a universty of special distinction and provide students with opportunities for success through its integration of teaching, research and service to society.
Education
4
Hampton University
Hampton university is a comprehensive institution of higher education, dedicated to the promotion of learning, building of character, and the preparation of promising students for positions of leadership and service. its curricular…
Education
5
Siena College
Siena college is a learning community advancing the ideals of a liberal arts education, rooted in its identity as a franciscan and catholic institution. as a learning community, siena is committed to a student-centered education…
Education
6
Seton Hall University
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
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7
Heidelberg University
A community of learning that promotes and nurtures intellectual, personal and professional development leading to a life of purpose with distinction.
Education
8
Paul Smiths College
Higher education: "the real value of a psc education is in the emphasis on not just learning something, but in actually doing it." the paul smith's college community provides a dynamic educational environment which encourages students to…
Education
9
The Hill School
Secondary boarding/day educational institution
Education
10
Trinity College
Trinity is a comprehensive institution offering a broad range of educational programs that prepare students across the lifespan for the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual dimensions of contemporary work, civic and family life.
Education
11
The Southwestern College
The southwestern college is a private, not-for-profit college serving traditional age-students and adult learners with undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
Education
12
Bridgewater College
Bridgewater college is a private, coeducational, residential, liberal arts college of approximately 1,500 students
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sigma Chi Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$96,235Education$23,000Public Benefit$20,000Philanthropy$10,000Animals$250Environment$145
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation RICHARD AND MARY BARD FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BRYAN AREA FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~9 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +79% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 237041310 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on BRYAN AREA FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Richard and Mary Bard Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Richard and Mary Bard Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines