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The Bgr Foundation Inc

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.

$333k
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$432kEducation$371kInternational$246kArts & Culture$245kScience & Tech$200kPublic Benefit$188kYouth Development$113kHuman Services$95kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $98k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $185k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$50,000
CENTER FOR NEW AMERICAN SECURITY$30,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$26,500
THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION$25,000
ATTORNEY GENERAL ALLIANCE$20,000
CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS FOR CHARITY$15,000
MARCH OF DIMES INC$15,000
AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL$12,000
DON BOSCO CRISTO REY WORK STUDY$11,333
CENTER FOR US GLOBAL LEADERSHIP$10,000
JDRF$10,000
THE FUND OF AMERICAN STUDIES$10,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL$7,500
DAVID A WINSTON HEALTH POLICY FELLOWSHIP$7,500
BLACK MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$7,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE FARMLINK PROJECT: $3k → 14%THE WORLD ORPHAN FUND: $3k → 8%CAPITAL CARING: $500 → 6%NGS INVITATIONAL: $5k → 9%HOSTAGE US INC: $500 → 6%COMFORT CASES: $4k → 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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
WY
SD
IA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
MS
AL
GA
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 53 repeat orgs$530k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
102

Total granted

$1.5M
$452k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+18%

Still filing today

79%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
HealthEducationInternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
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

  • TF
    TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $130k · revenue +288%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +57%
  • CF
    Center for a New American Security Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $85k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • The Rand Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +34%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -69%
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.

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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
3
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
4
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
6
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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7
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
8
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
9
Npr Foundation

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…

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10
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
11
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
12
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Cohen Veterans Network Inc. 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

107 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 107 of the 178 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/107
Grantees still filing
68/107
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL: $90,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - NATIONAL CA…Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · OtherThe Bryce Harlow Foundation: $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $24,000 · OtherMISSISSIPPI SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $24,000 · OtherCONGRESSIONAL SPORTS FOR CHARITY: $25,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $26,500 · Other+103 more: $450,958 · Other+103 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $300,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of H…UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $130,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI …Conference of Western Attorneys General AG Alliance: $60,000 · EducationConference of Western Atto…INTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Education+9 more: $29,150 · Education+9 moreMARCH OF DIMES INC: $130,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INCBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $82,750 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $37,500 · HealthNational Kidney Fou…Friends of Cancer Research: $35,000 · HealthFriends of Cancer R…FOUNDATION TO ERADICATE DUCHENNE INC: $35,000 · HealthFOUNDATION TO ERADI…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthDAVID A WINSTON HEALTH POLICY FELLOWSHIP: $13,500 · Health+16 more: $34,000 · Health+16 moreCenter for a New American Security Inc: $85,000 · InternationalCenter for…MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $50,000 · InternationalMERIDIAN I…PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $20,000 · InternationalPLAN INTER…UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · InternationalUNITED NAT…COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $11,500 · InternationalTHE KOREA SOCIETY: $10,000 · InternationalGLOBAL CHILD NUTRITION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · International+4 more: $15,750 · International+4 moreTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL: $130,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $8,500 · Arts & CulturePOINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION: $35,000 · PhilanthropyTASTE OF THE SOUTH: $35,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SOCIAL GIVING NETWORK: $24,000 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 · PhilanthropyESA'S FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyNEW HORIZON MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $5,500 · PhilanthropyCenter for US Global Leadership: $44,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL: $32,000 · Public BenefitThe Rand Corporation: $30,000 · Public BenefitWYOMING CONGRESSIONAL AWARD COUNCIL: $12,500 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $8,500 · Public BenefitCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Public Benefit
Other$715,458Education$544,150Health$387,750International$222,250Arts & Culture$153,500Philanthropy$141,000Public Benefit$132,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $300,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $130,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL: $130,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for a New American Security Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $82,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetConference of Western Attorneys General AG Alliance: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for US Global Leadership: $44,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $37,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Cancer Research: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPOINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION TO ERADICATE DUCHENNE INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTASTE OF THE SOUTH: $35,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL: $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rand Corporation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $26,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL SPORTS FOR CHARITY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bryce Harlow Foundation: $25,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $24,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIAL GIVING NETWORK: $24,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $21,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe National Press Foundation Inc: $21,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOLDIERS' ANGELS: $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCollege to Congress: $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetDAVID A WINSTON HEALTH POLICY FELLOWSHIP: $13,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWYOMING CONGRESSIONAL AWARD COUNCIL: $12,500 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BEVERAGE ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL WOMENS INNOVATION NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJessie Rees Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE KOREA SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArlington Food Assistance Center: $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR AN INDEPENDENT TOMORROW: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Pharmaceutical Resear…AARPUnited States Telecom…The Business Roundtab…Ctia - the Wireless A…Edison Electric Insti…Democracy Fund IncAssociation for Acces…The Ayco Charitable F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaDC26.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · AARP · United States Telecom Association · The Business Roundtable Inc · Ctia - the Wireless Association · Edison Electric Institute Inc · Democracy Fund Inc · Association for Accessible Medicines · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Bgr Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bgr Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%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%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Cohen Veterans Network Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Comfort Cases Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Capital Hospice: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
14report 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.
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How do I get to The Bgr Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Bgr Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 178 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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