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The Banfield Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$209k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,068
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 15
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$6.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Banfield Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureOther
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 arriving16$209k13%
FY202315$176k33%
FY20225$53k0%
FY202110$104k0%
FY202014$139k14%
FY201913$164k8%
FY201813$154kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$374kArts & Culture$245kReligion$189kPhilanthropy$81kHuman Services$57kEducation$54kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
UT
AZ
OK

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of The Banfield Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
My Hearts Appeal Inc$66,0006n/a
Paper Mill Playhouse$64,27460%
The Foster Alliance$57,00040%
St Baldrick's Foundation Inc$42,00030%
Somerset Health Care Foundation Inc$36,27941%
Dance for the Cure Inc$33,00049%
Hearts for Emma a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation$27,000315%
Dignity Health Foundation East Valley$25,00020%
Sieminski Theater Inc$10,00021%
Children's Miracle Network$10,00010%
The Center for Great Expectations Inc$10,00010%
Urbanity Dance Inc$7,50010%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($612k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Banfield Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPaper Mill Playhouse: $64,274 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Foster Alliance: $57,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSt Baldrick's Foundation Inc: $42,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSomerset Health Care Foundation Inc: $36,279 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetDance for the Cure Inc: $33,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetHearts for Emma a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation: $27,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetDignity Health Foundation East Valley: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSieminski Theater Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetChildren's Miracle Network: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Great Expectations Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUrbanity Dance Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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 11.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Banfield Family Foundation

How much does The Banfield Family Foundation give?
The Banfield Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $209,096 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does The Banfield Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (37%), Arts & Culture (24%), Religion (19%).
Who are The Banfield Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: My Hearts Appeal Inc ($66k), Paper Mill Playhouse ($64k), The Foster Alliance ($57k).
Does The Banfield Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Banfield Family Foundation 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 Banfield Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Banfield Family Foundation based?
The Banfield Family Foundation is based in NJ.

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 23 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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