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The Bold Foundation Inc

THE BOLD FOUNDATION INC strives to give everyone access to higher education. It uses its online platform to connect donors and students to scholarship opportunities. The platform creates a seamless way for donors to launch their own scholarships and fundraisers with the goal of funding education for students.

$1.2M
Granted FY2022
769
Grants FY2022
725
Organizations funded FY2022
99%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 725
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
49
Total assets, FY2022
$4.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 99% of the organizations The Bold Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 99% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2022725$1.2M99%
FY202196$160k100%
FY20201$13kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Education$1.4MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Saint Paul Church of Christ$3,0001n/a

Plus 814 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

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About The Bold Foundation Inc

How much does The Bold Foundation Inc give?
The Bold Foundation Inc reported 769 grants totaling $1,203,847 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 725 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does The Bold Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are The Bold Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: Saint Paul Church of Christ ($3k).
Does The Bold Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 99% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is The Bold Foundation Inc based?
The Bold Foundation Inc is based in CO.

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 815 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $5.6M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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