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The 3 B's 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.

$132k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$18,598
Organizations funded a year
9 to 13
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$1.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations The 3 B's Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsScience & TechHealthPhilanthropyOther
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
FY2025still arriving14$132k36%
FY202412$106k8%
FY202313$94k31%
FY202211$97k36%
FY20219$79k33%
FY20209$68k44%
FY201912$60k50%
FY20189$48k22%
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$220kEducation$119kArts & Culture$75kHealth$64kPublic Benefit$62kRecreation & Sports$47kEnvironment$40kHuman Services$33kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
NC
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($167k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The 3 B's Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWolf Conservation Center Inc: $71,604 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAtlantic White Shark Conservancy Inc: $62,777 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFriends of Ridgefield Community Programs Inc: $62,425 over 8y, 9.6% of budgetThe Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Research Foundation: $58,872 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetThe Raptor Trust: $54,100 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetFounders Hall Foundation Inc: $42,073 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetHartford Art School Endowment Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Madison Nj: $23,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNational Audubon Society Inc: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $20,794 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWoodcock Nature Center Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUnited Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra Inc: $14,077 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetRocky Mountain Conservancy: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Trustees of Bates College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarist University: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGarden of the Gods Foundation: $5,116 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Ridgefield: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Iris Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRidgefield Workshop for the Performing Arts Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOcean Conservancy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCare and Share Inc: $3,218 over 1y, 0.0% 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 22.

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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.

The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY16.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Pf & Rj Morganti Foundation · Anne S Richardson Fund Xxxxx3004 · Ridgefield Thrift Shop Inc · Diageo North America Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 The 3 B's Foundation Inc

How much does The 3 B's Foundation Inc give?
The 3 B's Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $131,588 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The 3 B's Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (30%), Education (16%), Arts & Culture (10%).
Who are The 3 B's Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wolf Conservation Center Inc ($72k), Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Inc ($63k), Friends of Ridgefield Community Programs Inc ($62k).
Does The 3 B's Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The 3 B's 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 The 3 B's Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ayco Charitable Foundation, Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
Where is The 3 B's Foundation Inc based?
The 3 B's Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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