· Private foundation
Seth Bonder 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $86k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $330k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $176,047 |
| GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| INFORMS | $73,500 |
| BRINKLEY HEIGHTS URBAN ACADEMY | $35,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES | $21,000 |
| LESLIE SCIENCE & NATURE CENTER | $10,000 |
| RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN | $10,000 |
| GIRLS GROUP | $10,000 |
| SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $7,750 |
| HURON VALLEY TENNIS CLUB | $12 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 69% of its 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 +67% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Michigan9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +202% · 93% of their budget
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $555k · revenue +103%
GIRLS GROUP9× · 2017–2025 · $255k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- MOMEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INCone grant, 2017 · $31k · revenue -25%
- FEFIDDLE ENSEMBLE INCone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -47%
- JRJC RUNYON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -78%
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.
To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Girls global academy public charter school (gga) was incorporated in the district of columbia in june 2019 and opened its doors in august 2020 fostering pathways to lead and learn. as an all-girls public charter high school, gga ignites…
The southern association of colleges and schools commission on colleges is the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the southern states. the commission's mission is the enhancement of…
See Disclosure Above.
Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.
Babson college educates entrepreneurial leaders who impact communities everywhere.
The baltimore educational scholarship trust, in partnership with our seventeen independent member schools, recruits and supports through the admissions process academically ambitious, african american students with financial need from the…
Barnard college aims to provide the highest quality liberal arts education to promising and high-achieving young women, offering the unparalleled advantages of an outstanding residential college in partnership with a major research…
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
To prepare young ladies and gentlemen for college success within a highly-structured, nurturing, christian environment.
Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 23 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 University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Faces of Accomplishment Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS GROUP ↗
- Who funds Brinkley Heights Urban Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LESLIE SCIENCE AND NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds FIDDLE ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds JC RUNYON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BALTIMORE ORIOLES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER ERADICATION INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ORPHEUM THEATRE GROUP ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Seth Bonder Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seth Bonder Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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