Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Bff Friendship Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $70k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Bff Friendship Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $70k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $64k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $56k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $58k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $61k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $53k | 5% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $48k | 16% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Book Trust | $40,500 | 9 | 0% |
| One Simple Wish Inc | $36,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Downtown Boxing Gym Youth Program | $22,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Michael's Way | $22,500 | 9 | 0% |
| American Camping Association Inc | $21,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Happiness Is Camping | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| A Better Chance Inc | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Chai Lifeline Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Tredyffrin & Easttown Care | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Philadelphia Region | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Book Trust | $40,500 | 9 | 0% |
| One Simple Wish Inc | $36,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Downtown Boxing Gym Youth Program | $22,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Michael's Way | $22,500 | 9 | 0% |
| American Camping Association Inc | $21,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Happiness Is Camping | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| A Better Chance Inc | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Chai Lifeline Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Tredyffrin & Easttown Care | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Philadelphia Region | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Living Beyond Breast Cancer | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Berwyn-Paoli Area Little League Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($284k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bff Friendship Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About The Bff Friendship Foundation
- How much does The Bff Friendship Foundation give?
- The Bff Friendship Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $70,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bff Friendship Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (25%), Human Services (15%), Health (11%).
- Who are The Bff Friendship Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Book Trust ($41k), One Simple Wish Inc ($36k), Downtown Boxing Gym Youth Program ($23k).
- Does The Bff Friendship Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bff Friendship Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bff Friendship Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Bff Friendship Foundation based?
- The Bff Friendship Foundation is based in PA.
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