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The Bold Foundation Inc

THE BOLD FOUNDATION INC strives to give everyone access to higher education.

$1.2M
Granted FY2022
769
Grants FY2022
49
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202022.

Education$1.4MOther$0
02FY2022 · 769 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k747 grants · $879k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $325k
$1,000
Median grant
49
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$35,000
Individual grant recipient$30,831
Individual grant recipient$25,182
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
CHARITY MCDOWELL$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
Individual grant recipient$14,770
Individual grant recipient$14,770
Individual grant recipient$13,500
Individual grant recipient$13,500
Individual grant recipient$12,000
Individual grant recipient$10,075
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — across the US and around the world.

Which US states your grants reach

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Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the 990 filings.

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.

2%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$28k · 7 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 718 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
90

Total granted

$28k
$156k

Still filing today

0%
0%

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%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2021–2022 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2021–2022 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2021–2022 · $5k

Funded once

  • DA
    Details Available Upon Request
    one grant, 2020 · $13k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • MJ
    MARIA JOSE LOZANO PALACIO
    one grant, 2021 · $10k

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

04Your field
04the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2020–2022.

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 20202022, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 815 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $30,831 · Other+198 more — $826,137 · Other+198 more
Other$891,968

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their 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.

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 815 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 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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