· Private foundation
The Bondi Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
50% of The Bondi Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Anglo-American Charitable Foundation Ltd, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 15 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Bondi Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $776k
- $250k+1 grant · $273k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANGLO-AMERICAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LTD | $273,075 |
| BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $100,000 |
| ADOPT A DOG | $100,000 |
| WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| SAFE HORIZON INC | $100,000 |
| MAKEWAY FOUNDATION | $76,328 |
| ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| STEIGER INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY | $40,000 |
| PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC | $25,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| HANDS IN 4 YOUTH INC | $25,000 |
| APPALACHIAN PEACE EDUCATION CENTER | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL COALITION FOR COMMUNITY CAPITAL | $20,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 31% of The Bondi Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TGTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT5× · 2017–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +3%
- SHSAFE HORIZON INC8× · 2017–2024 · $900k · revenue +50%
- AIADOPT-A-DOG INC3× · 2022–2024 · $400k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- AAAMERICAN AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -31%
NEO Philanthropy Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $122k · revenue +27%- CCCAMPION CENTER INCone grant, 2018 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rsf Social Finance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
41 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. 41 of the 55 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ANGLO-AMERICAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SAFE HORIZON INC ↗
- Who funds ADOPT-A-DOG INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds HANDS IN FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds SYNCHRONICITY EARTH USA INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Iraqi Children Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds International Conservation Fund Corp ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ↗
- Who funds STEIGER INTERNATIONAL LIMITED ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW STORIES ↗
- Who funds THE SILVER SHIELD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS IN 4 YOUTH INC (NY) ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Skoll Foundation · Viking Global Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Impactassetsinc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation
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 Bondi 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Hands in for Youth Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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