Florida · Private foundation
The Bonus Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $920k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $105,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations The Bonus Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $920k | 71% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $270k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $1.1M | 80% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $265k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $290k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $655k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $420k | 35% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $170k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Debt Resolution Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Pro Publica Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $295,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Cape Cod Children's Place Inc | $295,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lower Cape Cod Community Develop- Ment Corporation | $150,000 | 1 | 4% |
| The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 1% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $145,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Direct Relief | $145,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($615k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Bonus Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to The Bonus Fund 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.
About The Bonus Fund
- How much does The Bonus Fund give?
- The Bonus Fund reported 7 grants totaling $920,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Bonus Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), International (18%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are The Bonus Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Medical Debt Resolution Inc ($500k), Pro Publica Inc ($300k), Breakthrough T1d ($295k).
- Does The Bonus Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bonus Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bonus Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Bonus Fund based?
- The Bonus Fund is based in FL.
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