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The Bartimaeus Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$97kEducation$34kHealth$33kReligion$28kHousing & Shelter$6kPhilanthropy$4kHuman Services$3kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$313k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF DRAMATIC ARTS$10,000
EIGHT ELEVEN FOUNDATION$3,500
POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC$2,500
MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT CHURCH$2,000
MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS ACADEMY$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $5k → 8%POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $3k → 8%POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $3k → 8%POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $3k → 8%POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IN
NJ
VA
MD
TN
DC
LA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$173k · 13 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
20

Total granted

$173k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+30%

Still filing today

46%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PC
    POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +132%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +47%
  • PT
    Pathway to Recovery Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +318%

Funded once

  • CO
    CHURCH OF THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • MB
    MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • GC
    GONZAGA COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
2
The New York Gracie Square Hospital Inc

Our mission is to provide the highest-quality, state-of-the-art mental health and chemical dependency treatment in a warm, healing environment. our caring, compassionate team prepares our patients to return to their families and…

Health
3
Philadelphia University

The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…

Education
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Temple University Hospital Inc

See Schedule OOur mission is to support Temple University and its Health Sciences Center academic programs by providing the clinical environment and service to support the highest quality teaching and training programs for health care…

Health
10
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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11
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
12
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ascent 121 Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Andrew Keegan Theatre Company the Keegan Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF DRAMATIC ARTS: $95,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF DRAMATIC ARTS+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureIndividual grant recipient: $12,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHURCH OF THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT: $10,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENTACADEMY OF THE HOLY ANGELS: $5,000 · OtherACADEMY OF THE HOLY ANGELSMOST BLESSED SACRAMENT: $5,000 · OtherMOST BLESSED SACRAMENTCARL INSERRA LEUKEMIA FUND: $5,000 · OtherCARL INSERRA LEUKEMIA FUNDGONZAGA COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherGONZAGA COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLMOST BLESSED SACRAMENT CHURCH: $3,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF PATERSON -BISHOP SERRATELI: $3,000 · OtherGREG GANNON CANNED FOOD DRIVE: $3,000 · Other+14 more: $17,600 · Other+14 moreGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $12,500 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNI…Kula for Karma New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation: $10,500 · EducationKula for Karma…Fordham University: $3,500 · EducationFordham Univer…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationPOTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $14,500 · Human ServicesASCENT 121 INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesPathway to Recovery Inc: $5,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthEIGHT ELEVEN FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$96,000Other$69,350Education$27,500Human Services$15,500Health$5,600Philanthropy$3,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF DRAMATIC ARTS: $95,000 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetPOTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $14,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKula for Karma New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation: $10,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPathway to Recovery Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEIGHT ELEVEN FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFordham University: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASCENT 121 INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Andrew Keegan Theatre Company The Keegan Theatre: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 NATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF DRAMATIC ARTS ↗
  • Who funds POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Kula for Karma New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Pathway to Recovery Inc ↗
  • Who funds EIGHT ELEVEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Fordham University ↗
  • Who funds ASCENT 121 INC ↗
  • Who funds The Andrew Keegan Theatre Company The Keegan Theatre ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Inc ↗

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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Bartimaeus Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bartimaeus Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Jupiter Medical Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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 35 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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