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Robert W Binienda Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$124k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Robert W Binienda Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’23
ReligionHealthOther
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
FY2024still arriving4$3k75%
FY20232$21k100%
FY20214$3k50%
FY20202$16k50%
FY20195$12k80%
FY20183$53k67%
FY20177$44kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$107kPublic Benefit$25kHuman Services$14kInternational$1kYouth Development$1kEducation$1kPhilanthropy$550Health$500Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Four Winds Church$84,4185n/a
Michigan Prosperity Project$25,000125%
Bible Baptist Church$20,0001n/a
Samaritan's Purse$1,04520%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$1,00010%
Liberty Counsel Inc$6002n/a
Praise Baptist Church$5001n/a
Youth Haven Inc$50010%
Aaa Crisis Pregnancy Center$50010%
Bible Study Fellowship$30010%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($17k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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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How do I get to Robert W Binienda Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robert W Binienda Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Robert W Binienda Foundation

How much does Robert W Binienda Foundation give?
Robert W Binienda Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $2,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Robert W Binienda Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (71%), Public Benefit (17%), Human Services (9%).
Who are Robert W Binienda Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Four Winds Church ($84k), Michigan Prosperity Project ($25k), Bible Baptist Church ($20k).
Does Robert W Binienda Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert W Binienda Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Robert W Binienda Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Robert W Binienda Foundation based?
Robert W Binienda Foundation is based in MI.

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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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