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Robert & Ellen Bach Foundation Inc

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.

$14k
Granted FY2019
8
Grants FY2019
8
Organizations funded FY2019
25%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2019
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 14
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
4
Total assets, FY2019
$181k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 25% of the organizations Robert & Ellen Bach Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
Recreation & SportsHealthOther
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
FY20198$14k25%
FY201810$21k20%
FY201714$21kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Arts & Culture$21kEducation$10kRecreation & Sports$7kAnimals$4kHealth$4kEnvironment$3kFood & Nutrition$3kReligion$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Children's Museum of the Upstate Inc$4,50020%
Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc$4,30030%
Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind Inc$4,30030%
Westchester Land Trust Inc$3,00030%
The Warehouse Theatre$3,00030%
Charleston Community Sailing Inc$1,50011%
St Anthonys Church-School$1,2001n/a
The 52nd Street Project Inc$1,00010%
The Good Dog Foundation Inc$50010%
Hands Across the Sea Inc$50010%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($31k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert & Ellen Bach Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Museum of the Upstate Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $4,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGuide Dog Foundation for the Blind Inc: $4,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWestchester Land Trust Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Warehouse Theatre: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCharleston Community Sailing Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe 52nd Street Project Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Good Dog Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHands Across the Sea Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 9.

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.

Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ge Aerospace FoundationCT12.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable 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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About Robert & Ellen Bach Foundation Inc

How much does Robert & Ellen Bach Foundation Inc give?
Robert & Ellen Bach Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $13,600 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Robert & Ellen Bach Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (38%), Education (18%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
Who are Robert & Ellen Bach Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Children's Museum of the Upstate Inc ($5k), Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ($4k), Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind Inc ($4k).
Does Robert & Ellen Bach Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert & Ellen Bach Foundation Inc 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 Robert & Ellen Bach Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ge Aerospace Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Robert & Ellen Bach Foundation Inc based?
Robert & Ellen Bach Foundation Inc is based in SC.

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 18 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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