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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 FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$218kHuman Services$145kInternational$139kHealth$86kEducation$74kCommunity Improvement$43kRecreation & Sports$38kPhilanthropy$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k48 grants · $109k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $91k
$2,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEACOLOGY$25,000
SEND IT$15,100
ENVIRONMENTAL TRAVELING COMPANIONS$10,500
TELLURIDE SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER$10,000
FRIENDS OF CHALLENGING HEIGHTS$10,000
FRIENDS OF CHALLENGING HEIGHTS$10,000
MARIN COMMUNITY CLINIC$10,000
MCE SOCIAL CAPITAL$8,510
TELLURIDE FOUNDATION$8,500
MANY HOPES INC$7,000
WATSI$6,000
WOMENS REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ASSISTANCE PROJECT WRRA$5,000
TECHNOSERVE INC$5,000
PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE$5,000
EMBRACE GLOBAL$5,000
02The need
03

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 US giving — 88% of grant dollars ($762k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 12% that went abroad ($106k) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $1k → 7%SEND IT: $15k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $2k → 11%SWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $250 → 7%SEND IT: $5k → 11%SEND IT: $3k → 11%VETERANS YOGA PROJECT: $500 → 10%SEND IT: $3k → 11%SEND IT: $2k → 11%VETERANS YOGA PROJECT: $500 → 10%SEND IT: $1k → 11%ANGEL BASKETS: $2k → 7%SEND IT: $1k → 11%ANGEL BASKETS: $500 → 7%ANGEL BASKETS: $500 → 7%ANGEL BASKETS: $500 → 7%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $500 → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $500 → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $500 → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $500 → 10%RITTER CENTER: $1k → 8%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $500 → 8%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $500 → 8%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $500 → 8%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $250 → 8%RITTER CENTER: $250 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA

Beyond the US — 12% of all-years giving ($106k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Ghana$106k · 1 grant

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$679k · 67 repeat orgs$160k to everyone else

67 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
19

Total granted

$679k
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+49%

Still filing today

87%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthEnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • S
    SEACOLOGY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $138k · revenue +9%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CHALLENGING HEIGHTS
    4× · 2019–2024 · $53k · revenue +18%
  • TI
    TECHNOSERVE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $42k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $106k
  • NB
    NATURE BRIDGE - SEATTLE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • EW
    ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +73%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
4
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
5
Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal
6
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
7
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
8
Future 500

See attached statementprimary missionfuture 500 builds trust between corporations, advocates, investors, and philanthropists to advance business as a force for good. we are experts in stakeholder engagement with over 25 years of experience…

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9
The Trust for Public Land

The trust for public land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. in the past year, we helped communities to plan for parks and conservation, fund parks and conservation,…

Environment
10
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
11
Natural Resource Governance Institute

Nrgi envisions a world where natural resources enable fair, prosperous and sustainable societies, instead of undermining them. nrgi exists because decisions about how natural resources are governed determine the well-being of people in…

International
12
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Girls Smile Inc and the most unlike its peers is 1TO4. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Pregnancy Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsFood Banks and PantriesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Food PantriesLocal History MuseumsPolicy Research and AdvocacyImmigrant Worker SupportEnvironmental Conservation …Christian Missionary Organi…Health Access Advocacy and …Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr13%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr17%45%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr13%11%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/94
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,884

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.

04the grantee network

90 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. 90 of the 103 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/90
Grantees still filing
59/90
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SEACOLOGY — $137,500 · OtherSEACOLOGYIndividual grant recipient — $106,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient1TO4 — $30,000 · Other1TO4MCE SOCIAL CAPITAL — $41,364 · OtherMCE SOCIAL CAPITALEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $16,500 · Other+45 more — $135,450 · Other+45 moreMARIN COMMUNITY CLINIC — $33,500 · HealthMARIN COMM…WATSI INC — $18,500 · HealthWATSI INCPlanned Parenthood Global Inc — $8,300 · HealthPlanned Pa…Public Health Institute — $5,500 · HealthPublic Hea…Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project — $5,000 · HealthWomen's Re…MARIN CITY HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER — $3,500 · Health+4 more — $5,000 · Health+4 moreTECHNOSERVE INC — $41,500 · InternationalTECHNOSER…MANY HOPES INC — $21,750 · InternationalMANY HOPE…EMBRACE GLOBAL — $5,000 · InternationalEMBRACE G…Save The Children Federation Inc — $3,500 · International+4 more — $4,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF CHALLENGING HEIGHTS — $52,500 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS O…MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · PhilanthropyMARIN COM…TOGETHER WOMEN RISE — $2,500 · Philanthropy+1 more — $2,000 · PhilanthropySAN MIGUEL CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $40,000 · EnvironmentEnvironmental Traveling Companions — $14,650 · EnvironmentTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC — $3,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $3,000 · EnvironmentPROTECT OUR WINTERS — $2,505 · Environment+4 more — $3,500 · EnvironmentDaraja Education Fund — $21,500 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $8,500 · EducationSHE-CAN GLOBAL INC — $7,500 · EducationEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $5,500 · EducationThe Thacher School Inc — $4,000 · EducationTHE BRANSON SCHOOL — $3,250 · EducationCONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $3,000 · Education10000 DEGREES — $3,000 · EducationMARIN PROMISE PARTNERSHIP — $3,000 · Education+5 more — $5,211 · EducationSEND IT — $31,050 · Human ServicesAngel Baskets Inc — $3,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesLarkin Street Youth Services — $2,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN COUNTY — $1,750 · Human Services+3 more — $3,500 · Human Services
Other$466,814Health$79,300International$75,750Philanthropy$72,000Environment$66,655Education$64,461Human Services$43,300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSEACOLOGY — $137,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHALLENGING HEIGHTS — $52,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC — $41,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMCE SOCIAL CAPITAL — $41,364 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSAN MIGUEL CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetMARIN COMMUNITY CLINIC — $33,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSEND IT — $31,050 over 6y, 1.4% of budget1TO4 — $30,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetMANY HOPES INC — $21,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDaraja Education Fund — $21,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWATSI INC — $18,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $16,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Traveling Companions — $14,650 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE RIVER FOUNDATION — $14,150 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTELLURIDE FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC — $10,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTELLURIDE SCIENCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Global Inc — $8,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBridge the Gap College Prep — $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSHE-CAN GLOBAL INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPublic Health Institute — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT TAMALPAIS SCHOOL — $5,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRACE GLOBAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe 5 Gyres Institute — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Thacher School Inc — $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MILL VALLEY PARKS AND RECREATION C/O RICHARD ROBBINS — $3,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER RISING — $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN CITY HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFROM HOUSES TO HOMES - GUATEMALA INC — $3,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWEST POINT INN ASSOCIATION — $3,250 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS — $3,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRANSON SCHOOL — $3,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAngel Baskets Inc — $3,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget10000 DEGREES — $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN PROMISE PARTNERSHIP — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGRASSROOT SOCCER INC — $2,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS — $2,505 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Marin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…Jewish Community Fede…ImpactassetsincMcNabb FoundationLeonard & Beryl Buck …The Goldman Sachs Cha…Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Bothin FoundationThe Feibusch Foundati…Robert K & Barbara J …
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

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 Bindon 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Moco Kidsco Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
21report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 103 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines