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The Bondi Foundation at a glance

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The Bondi Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$896k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.5MHealth$1.7MInternational$1.5MCrime & Legal$900kAnimals$400kArts & Culture$300kReligion$275kEducation$266kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $277k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $653k
  • $250k+1 grant · $896k
$40,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANGLO-AMERICAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LTD$895,594
ADOPT A DOG$100,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$100,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER$100,000
SAFE HORIZON INC$100,000
ST MARY'S FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN$100,000
MADAKTARI AFRICA$52,500
INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION FUND OF CANADA$50,000
THE V FOUNDATION$50,000
MAKEWAY FOUNDATION$40,715
SYNCHRONICITY EARTH USA INC$40,000
SCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS INC$36,000
BOSTON COLLEGE$25,000
HANDS IN 4 YOUTH INC$25,000
PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.3M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Puppies Behind Bars: $25k → 17%CHOOSE LOVE INC: $15k → 17%SAFE HORIZON INC: $100k → 17%SAFE HORIZON INC: $100k → 17%SAFE HORIZON INC: $100k → 17%SAFE HORIZON INC: $100k → 17%SAFE HORIZON INC: $100k → 17%SAFE HORIZON INC: $100k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $200k → 17%Safe Horizon: $100k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $100k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $40k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $20k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $70k → 17%DIVINE LOVE WORLD CHARITY INC: $20k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $20k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $20k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $30k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $30k → 17%Children's Aid Society: $20k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
VA
AZ
NC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 31% of The Bondi Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Bondi Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 28 repeat orgs$990k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
22

Total granted

$6.1M
$732k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+25%

Still filing today

79%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $258k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • SH
    SAFE HORIZON INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +50%
  • TG
    THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +41%
  • AI
    ADOPT-A-DOG INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $500k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • AA
    AMERICAN AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -31%
  • NEO Philanthropy Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $122k · revenue +27%
  • CC
    CAMPION CENTER INC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
3
One Earth Philanthropy

One Earth connects thinkers, doers, activists, and knowledge holders from around the world to solve humanity's greatest ecological challenges--together. Our belief is simple: The solutions to the climate crisis already exist. By connecting…

Environment
4
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
5
New York Blood Center Inc

As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.

Health
6
Center for Strategic and International Studies

The center for strategic and international studies (csis) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to advancing practical ideas to address the world's greatest challenges.

International
7
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
8
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
9
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
10
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
11
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Venture Fund; 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.
05the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
34/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANGLO-AMERICAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LTD: $3,028,180 · PhilanthropyANGLO-AMERICAN CHARITABLE FOUNDAT…+1 more: $50,900 · PhilanthropyIndividual grant recipient: $400,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $300,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER C…WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $250,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGEST MARYS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $210,000 · OtherST MARYS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN …CHURCH OF ST IGNATIUS LOYOLA: $150,000 · OtherMAKEWAY FOUNDATION: $137,418 · OtherPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $225,000 · OtherPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INCHANDS IN FOR YOUTH INC: $185,000 · OtherHANDS IN FOR YOUTH INCNEO Philanthropy Inc: $122,300 · Other+27 more: $1,161,200 · Other+27 moreSAFE HORIZON INC: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HORIZON I…THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $250,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S…+3 more: $60,000 · Human ServicesTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT: $1,000,000 · InternationalTHE GLOBAL HU…AMERICAN AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION: $200,000 · InternationalAMERICAN AUST…Iraqi Children Foundation Inc: $85,000 · InternationalIraqi Childre…BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $210,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $200,000 · HealthST MARYS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN INC: $195,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $80,000 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Health+2 more: $20,000 · HealthADOPT-A-DOG INC: $500,000 · AnimalsNEW VENTURE FUND: $170,000 · EnvironmentSYNCHRONICITY EARTH USA INC: $165,045 · EnvironmentInternational Conservation Fund Corp: $60,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $30,000 · Environment+2 more: $23,200 · Environment
Philanthropy$3,079,080Other$3,140,918Human Services$1,310,000International$1,285,000Health$755,000Animals$500,000Environment$448,245

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetANGLO-AMERICAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LTD: $3,028,180 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetSAFE HORIZON INC: $1,000,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT: $1,000,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetADOPT-A-DOG INC: $500,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $250,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $225,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetST MARYS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $210,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $210,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION: $200,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetST MARYS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN INC: $195,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHANDS IN FOR YOUTH INC: $185,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $170,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSYNCHRONICITY EARTH USA INC: $165,045 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $122,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $101,371 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIraqi Children Foundation Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Conservation Fund Corp: $60,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetTHE SILVER SHIELD FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetSCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS INC: $55,654 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $50,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEIGER INTERNATIONAL LIMITED: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHANDS IN 4 YOUTH INC (NY): $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES TO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $20,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetNATIONAL COALITION FOR COMMUNITY CAPITAL NC3: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetDIVINE LOVE WORLD CHARITY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHOOSE LOVE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc: $13,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Wellspring Commons Stewards Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Valley Commun…The Skoll FoundationViking Global Foundat…National Philanthropi…Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Morgan Stanley Global…ImpactassetsincVanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA13.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Bondi Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bondi Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Bondi Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Bondi Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 60 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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