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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 it funds
01100% 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
02FY2022 · 769 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Where the grant dollars land

Across the US and around the world.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the 990 filings.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

2%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
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
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2020 to 2022, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

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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