How much does The Bindon Foundation give?

The Bindon Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $199,610 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 51 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does The Bindon Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (25%), Human Services (17%), International (16%).

Who are The Bindon Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Seacology ($138k), Friends of Challenging Heights ($53k), Technoserve Inc ($42k).

Does The Bindon Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Bindon 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.

Where is The Bindon Foundation based?

The Bindon Foundation is based in DE.

Foundation Dossiers

Delaware · Private foundation

The Bindon Foundation

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.

$200k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 55
Grants FY2024: 43
Organizations funded FY2023: 12%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $2,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $25,000
Organizations funded a year: 36 to 51; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 15
Total assets, FY2024: $3.4M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations The Bindon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentInternationalEducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	51	$191k	25%
FY2023	43	$123k	12%
FY2022	51	$128k	18%
FY2021	48	$197k	21%
FY2020	48	$118k	54%
FY2019	36	$82k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$218kHuman Services$145kInternational$139kHealth$86kEducation$74kCommunity Improvement$43kRecreation & Sports$38kPhilanthropy$20kOther$0

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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Seacology	$137,500	6	1%
Friends of Challenging Heights	$52,500	4	12%
Technoserve Inc	$41,500	6	0%
McE Social Capital	$41,364	6	0%
San Miguel Conservation Foundation	$40,000	2	10%
Marin Community Clinic	$33,500	5	0%
Send It	$31,050	6	1%
1to4	$30,000	2	15%
Many Hopes Inc	$21,750	4	0%
Daraja Education Fund	$21,500	6	0%

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All grantees of The Bindon Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Seacology	$137,500	6	1%
Friends of Challenging Heights	$52,500	4	12%
Technoserve Inc	$41,500	6	0%
McE Social Capital	$41,364	6	0%
San Miguel Conservation Foundation	$40,000	2	10%
Marin Community Clinic	$33,500	5	0%
Send It	$31,050	6	1%
1to4	$30,000	2	15%
Many Hopes Inc	$21,750	4	0%
Daraja Education Fund	$21,500	6	0%
Watsi Inc	$18,500	6	0%
Equal Justice Initiative	$16,500	6	0%
Environmental Traveling Companions	$14,650	4	1%
Friends of the River Foundation	$14,150	5	1%
The Kelly S Brush Foundation Inc	$10,500	6	0%
Telluride Science	$10,000	1	0%
Georgetown University	$8,500	6	0%
Planned Parenthood Global Inc	$8,300	6	0%
Bridge the Gap College Prep	$8,000	4	0%
She-Can Global Inc	$7,500	3	0%
Eastside College Preparatory School Inc	$5,500	3	0%
San Francisco Food Bank	$5,500	3	0%
Public Health Institute	$5,500	2	0%
Mount Tamalpais School	$5,250	3	0%
The 5 Gyres Institute	$5,000	2	0%
Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project	$5,000	1	0%
Embrace Global	$5,000	1	0%
Canal Alliance	$4,500	3	0%
The Thacher School Inc	$4,000	6	0%
Together Rising	$3,500	4	0%
Save The Children Federation Inc	$3,500	3	0%
Marin City Health and Wellness Center	$3,500	2	0%
Ignatian Corporation Saint Ignatius High School	$3,500	4	n/a
Friends of Mill Valley Parks and Recreation C/O Richard Robbins	$3,500	2	1%
The Branson School	$3,250	6	0%
West Point Inn Association	$3,250	5	0%
Telluride Council for the Arts and Human Dba Telluride Arts	$3,250	4	0%
From Houses to Homes - Guatemala Inc	$3,250	5	0%
Connecticut College	$3,000	6	0%
Angel Baskets Inc	$3,000	4	0%
The Grand Canyon Trust Inc	$3,000	2	0%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc	$3,000	2	0%
Marin Promise Partnership	$3,000	3	0%
10000 Degrees	$3,000	5	0%
Grassroot Soccer Inc	$2,700	6	0%
Protect Our Winters	$2,505	4	0%
Nate Chute Foundation Inc	$2,500	1	0%
California Academy of Sciences	$2,500	1	0%
Extrafood	$2,500	5	0%
Together Women Rise	$2,500	2	0%
Flathead Food Bank Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Larkin Street Youth Services	$2,000	4	0%
Challenged Athletes Inc	$2,000	1	0%
Ethel Walker School Inc	$1,911	1	0%
Kind Inc	$1,750	2	0%
St Vincent de Paul Society District Council of Marin County	$1,750	4	0%
The Outdoor Art Club Inc	$1,750	4	0%
Friends of Compass Inc	$1,650	3	0%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$1,500	2	0%
Give Back Yoga Foundation	$1,500	3	0%
Swiftsure Ranch Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc	$1,250	2	0%
Ritter Center	$1,250	2	0%
Successful Practices Network Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Clean Air Task Force Inc	$1,000	2	0%
Mali Kalanso	$1,000	3	0%
Off The Mat Into The World DBA OTM Off the Mat	$1,000	1	0%
Mill Valley Livearts Dba 142 Throckmorton Theatre	$1,000	3	0%
Veterans Yoga Project Inc	$1,000	2	0%
Rails to Trails Conservancy	$1,000	1	0%
Telluride Mountain Club	$1,000	1	0%
Engenderhealth Inc	$1,000	1	0%
High Fives Nonprofit Foundation	$1,000	1	0%
Grand Canyon Youth Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Right to Play Inc	$1,000	1	4%
Lava Mae	$1,000	2	0%
Naturebridge	$1,000	1	0%
Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc	$1,000	2	0%
Telluride Adaptive Sports Program	$1,000	1	0%
Trout Unlimited	$1,000	1	n/a
Black Girls Smile Inc	$500	1	0%
Waterside School Inc	$500	1	0%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc	$500	1	0%
The Dipsea Race Foundation	$500	1	2%
Glide Memorial Church	$500	1	0%
American Rivers Inc	$500	1	0%
Mission Dolores Academy	$500	2	n/a
Ashesi University Foundation	$500	1	0%
Moco Kidsco Inc	$500	1	n/a
Anything Is Everything	$300	1	n/a
The One Love Foundation in Honor of Yeardley Love Inc	$300	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($120k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bindon Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 85.

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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.

Marin Community FoundationCA46× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Impactassetsinc · McNabb Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Bothin Foundation · The Feibusch Foundation · Robert K & Barbara J Straus Family Foundation 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.

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About The Bindon Foundation

How much does The Bindon Foundation give?: The Bindon Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $199,610 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 51 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Bindon Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (25%), Human Services (17%), International (16%).
Who are The Bindon Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Seacology ($138k), Friends of Challenging Heights ($53k), Technoserve Inc ($42k).
Does The Bindon Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Bindon 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 Bindon Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma.
Where is The Bindon Foundation based?: The Bindon Foundation is based in DE.