· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE NEA FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATIO | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $10,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST | $10,000 |
| PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT | $10,000 |
| ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT | $10,000 |
| CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS | $10,000 |
| DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MANNA FOOD CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $10,000 |
| CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE | $5,000 |
| PRO PUBLICA INC | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
DIRECT RELIEF6× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +20%
PRO PUBLICA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +64%
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2023 · $58k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- GGIVEMNone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -14%
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +13%- NCNATIONAL COUNCIL ON PROBLEM GAMBLING INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
Advocating for public policies that advance democratic values in the digital age.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…
Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.
Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.
Ned has a singular mission - advancing democracy in support of freedom around the world. our targeted, demand-driven small grants program responds to the needs of local ngos that defend human rights, strengthen independent media and civic…
Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center and the most unlike its peers is National Alliance On Mental Illness. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
83 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. 83 of the 92 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE ↗
- Who funds WATERORG ↗
- Who funds AYUDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEA FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MARCH FOR OUR LIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds PROOF ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds STATES NEWSROOM ↗
- Who funds Native Americans in Philanthropy ↗
- Who funds FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM CONSULTATION EDUCATION AND TRAINING SERVICESINC ↗
- Who funds TWICE EXCEPTIONAL CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds National Council of Nonprofits ↗
- Who funds PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PEACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FEAST FAMILIES EMPOWERED AND SUPPORTING TREATMENT EATING DISORDERS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIVEMN ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
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.
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
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 BDM Family Foundation 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Trust — 100% of income from government
- Anacostia Watershed Society Inc — 15% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc — 0% of income from government
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% of income from government
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.