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The Bayer Family Fund

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.

$231k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$8.1MPublic Benefit$3.3MArts & Culture$47kEducation$46kEnvironment$21kReligion$10kHealth$9kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND$200,000
BRONX CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC$11,000
LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$6,000
MASTODON$5,616
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF COLORADO$5,000
JEWISH CENTER$1,020
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$550
TEACHFORTH$500
THIRTEEN$250
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$200
70 FACES MEDIA$189
NY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$160
RABBINICAL COUNCIL OF AMERICA$125
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$124
WIKIMEDIA NEW YORK CITY$100
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $180 → 17%TURKISH-AMERICAN RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.7M · 20 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
50

Total granted

$8.7M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+38%

Still filing today

60%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyReligionPublic BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • BC
    BRONX CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +19%
  • MO
    Museum of Modern Art
    3× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +44%
  • LG
    LINK GLOBAL
    2× · 2018–2019 · $1k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $1.1M
  • WC
    WILLOW CREEK ACTION
    one grant, 2022 · $1.1M · revenue -100%
  • CF
    Center for Common Groundgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $90k · revenue ×12 · 52% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
2
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Inc

The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…

Education
3
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
4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
7
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
8
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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9
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
10
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
11
Wnet

Wnet is a multi-media public service non-profit that delivers lifelong learning and meaningful experiences to our communities. our content inspires curiosity, encourages action and nurtures dreams.

Arts & Culture
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is American Museum of Natural History. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%14%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr18%18%20–35yr12%12%35–55yr13%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%35%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr18%8%20–35yr12%30%35–55yr13%3%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
14%
13,646/99,773

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 78 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
32/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

vanguard charitable endowment fund - david slifka fund — $4,295,510 · Othervanguard charitable endowment fund - david slifka fundFUND FOR JEWISH COMMUNITY — $2,268,000 · OtherFUND FOR JEWISH COMMUNITYTHE VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND — $1,350,000 · OtherTHE VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUNDIndividual grant recipient — $1,105,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWILLOW CREEK ACTION — $1,100,000 · OtherWILLOW CREEK ACTIONCollective Impact Action — $715,000 · OtherCollective Impact Action+38 more — $60,062 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATION — $185,000 · PhilanthropyGoodnation Foundation Inc — $25,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER — $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $250 · PhilanthropyCenter for Common Ground — $90,000 · Public BenefitProgressive Change Institute — $70,000 · Public BenefitGround Game Texas — $25,000 · Public BenefitRAPID RESIST ACTION — $75,000 · Civil RightsVOTEORG — $50,000 · Civil RightsWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $40,000 · EducationCivic Nation — $25,000 · EducationLET'S GET READY INC — $5,260 · EducationDEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTE — $5,000 · Education+5 more — $2,750 · EducationBRONX CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC — $12,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $6,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $2,500 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art — $1,690 · Arts & CultureJEWISH FOOD SOCIETY INC — $1,500 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $2,608 · Arts & CultureChildren's Hospital Colorado — $5,000 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC — $724 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $250 · Health
Other$10,893,572Philanthropy$235,250Public Benefit$185,000Civil Rights$125,000Education$78,010Arts & Culture$26,298Health$5,974

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCollective Impact Action — $715,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $185,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Common Ground — $90,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetRAPID RESIST ACTION — $75,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetProgressive Change Institute — $70,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetVOTEORG — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGoodnation Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGround Game Texas — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCivic Nation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE VIRGINIA CLIMATE PROGRAM — $20,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRONX CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC — $12,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLET'S GET READY INC — $5,260 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Shalem Foundation — $5,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURKISH-AMERICAN RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION — $3,106 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW WIZARDS INC — $2,030 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $1,690 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FOOD SOCIETY INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBACKYARD SPORTS CARES INC — $1,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWAGGING TAILS DOG RESCUE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLINK GLOBAL — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomens Sports Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC — $724 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMIT CHILDREN INC — $640 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $604 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THIRTEEN — $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEACHFORTH — $500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $480 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRABBINICAL COUNCIL OF AMERICA — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri — $270 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTBLUE CHARITIES INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $230 over 2y, 0.0% of budget70 FACES MEDIA INC — $189 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundCombined Jewish Phila…Jewish Community Fede…Tides FoundationNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
Jewish Communal FundNY13× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Tides Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Bayer Family Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Bayer Family Fund?

    Find your warmest path to The Bayer Family Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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