· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS | $1,800 |
| GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION | $1,800 |
| ST ANTHONY OF PADUA | $1,500 |
| THE WAREHOUSE THEATRE | $1,000 |
| WESTCHESTER LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| PICKENS MEALS ON WHEELS | $1,000 |
| HANDS ACROSS THE SEA | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +11%
- SGSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +146%
- GDGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- PPALAZZOMARCHETTIITone grant, 2017 · $3k
- CCCHARLESTON COMMUNITY SAILING INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +132%
- SAST ANTHONYS CHURCH-SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
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.
Inspired by the intelligence and emotional wisdom of young people, we create professional theatre for youth and families, foster inclusive community, and nurture meaningful learning through the arts. We provide these experiences through…
Healing and education through a human/animal connection.
Empowering and inspiring a new generation of changemakers through theatre. at scct, we define a changemaker as: someone who has empathy for others and is driven to make the world a better place. someone who is inquisitive, open minded, and…
To assist disabled veterans, active military personnel, first responders with disabilities, and those who have served our country honorably to live with dignity and independence. america's vetdogs trains and places guide dogs for…
Charleston stage's vision is to be a leading professional theater company, engaging the broad community through high quality productions, with leading artists, and excellent production values. the organization provides the community access…
Our mission is to cultivate a vibrant space where the arts are celebrated, all voices are amplified, and the power of live theatre brings people together. at workshop theatre, we are dedicated to enriching our community by providing access…
Theatre can lead to extraordinary moments of shared imagination. it enables us to stand in anothers shoes to better understand ourselves and the world around us. it shows us who we are, who we have been, who we could be. the nt delivers on…
Puppies behind bars trains incarcerated individuals to raise service dogs for wounded war veterans and first responders, facility dogs for police departments, and explosive-detecton canines for law enforcement.
Breed, raise, train and place guide dogs with visually impaired people, mainly on the east coast of the U.S., at no cost to the users of the guide dogs
Sundog Theatre is a performing arts organization that engages audiences and artists onstage through contemporary and original theater. In the general education classroom, we help student curricula come to life through theater, dance, music…
The mission of Courthouse Dogs Foundation is to promote justice with compassion partnering with professionally trained facility dogs to provide support to everyone in the justice system. Most of these dogs are utilized to support children…
Train and place service dogs at no cost with U.S. military veterans with PTSD and other disabilities to increase independence.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Westchester Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WAREHOUSE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON COMMUNITY SAILING INC ↗
- Who funds THE 52ND STREET PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS ACROSS THE SEA INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert & Ellen Bach Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert & Ellen Bach Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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