Delaware · Private foundation
The BDM Family Foundation
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.
- $209k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 50
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The BDM Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 30 | $209k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 46 | $177k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $179k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $184k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $173k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $133k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $89k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direct Relief | $105,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Pro Publica Inc | $70,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Globalgiving Foundation Inc | $57,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence | $52,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Chesapeake Bay Trust | $50,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $40,100 | 4 | 0% |
| National Immigration Law Center | $40,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Campaign Legal Center Inc | $40,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 83 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($47k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The BDM Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 78 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Give Lively Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Gates Foundation · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · New Venture Fund · Open Society Institute · American Endowment Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
How this is measured
About The BDM Family Foundation
- How much does The BDM Family Foundation give?
- The BDM Family Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $209,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 50 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The BDM Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (27%), Civil Rights (16%), Health (11%).
- Who are The BDM Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Direct Relief ($105k), Pro Publica Inc ($70k), Globalgiving Foundation Inc ($58k).
- Does The BDM Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The BDM 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 BDM Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Give Lively Foundation Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation.
- Where is The BDM Family Foundation based?
- The BDM Family Foundation is based in DE.
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