New York · Private foundation
The Bahnik Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $4.7M
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 87
- Grants FY2026
- 85
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $1,290,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 85
- FY2021 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 9
- Total assets, FY2026
- $88M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 45% of the organizations The Bahnik Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $503k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 86 | $4.6M | 14% |
| FY2025 | 85 | $3.5M | 45% |
| FY2024 | 68 | $3.1M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $2.7M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $2.4M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $2.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Club of Oyster Bay - East Norwich | $4,745,250 | 6 | 48% |
| Portledge School | $2,299,750 | 6 | 1% |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | $2,220,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Francis Hospital | $1,635,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Long Island University | $1,601,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Stony Brook Foundation Inc | $400,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Oyster Bay Main Street Association | $265,000 | 6 | 15% |
| East Woods School Inc | $257,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Northwell Health Foundation | $250,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Mount Sinai Health System Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 81 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Bahnik Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 62 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Frederic R Coudert Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Del Vecchio Family Foundation · Dolan Family Foundation · Lostritto Family Foundation · Peter & Jeri Dejana Foundation · The Quinn Family Foundation · Sophia and William Casey Foundation · The Pamela Howard Family Foundation Inc · Ainslie Foundation · The Stebbins Fund Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Bahnik Foundation Inc
- How much does The Bahnik Foundation Inc give?
- The Bahnik Foundation Inc reported 87 grants totaling $4,657,750 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 85 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
- What does The Bahnik Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (32%), Youth Development (27%), Science & Tech (16%).
- Who are The Bahnik Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Boys & Girls Club of Oyster Bay - East Norwich ($4.7M), Portledge School ($2.3M), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ($2.2M).
- Does The Bahnik Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bahnik 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 Bahnik Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Frederic R Coudert Foundation, The New York Community Trust, Del Vecchio Family Foundation.
- Where is The Bahnik Foundation Inc based?
- The Bahnik Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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