Skip to content

Delaware · Private foundation

The Boone Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$68k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
80%
First-time grantees FY2023
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$22,500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 5
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 80% of the organizations The Boone Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
EnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$68k57%
FY20235$27k80%
FY20222$12k100%
FY20214$119kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$446kHealth$38kEnvironment$14kRecreation & Sports$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Uc Davis Foundation$106,00010%
Zendo Project Inc$32,50022%
Novato Unified School District$15,0001n/a
Trustees of Boston University$10,00010%
Circle of Sacred Nature$7,0002n/a
One Tree Planted Inc$5,00010%
Nami Yolo County$2,50011%
Vertical Horizons$2,500110%
The Circle of Hearts Foundation$2,00011%
National Arbor Day Foundation$1,00010%
Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of The Boone Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Uc Davis Foundation$106,00010%
Zendo Project Inc$32,50022%
Novato Unified School District$15,0001n/a
Trustees of Boston University$10,00010%
Circle of Sacred Nature$7,0002n/a
One Tree Planted Inc$5,00010%
Nami Yolo County$2,50011%
Vertical Horizons$2,500110%
The Circle of Hearts Foundation$2,00011%
National Arbor Day Foundation$1,00010%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$1,00010%
Trevor Project Inc$50010%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Boone Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Uc Davis Foundation: $106,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZendo Project Inc: $32,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOne Tree Planted Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNami Yolo County: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVertical Horizons: $2,500 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetThe Circle of Hearts Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNational Arbor Day Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrevor Project Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

Compare The Boone Family Foundation with peer funders

About The Boone Family Foundation

How much does The Boone Family Foundation give?
The Boone Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $67,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does The Boone Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (89%), Health (8%), Environment (3%).
Who are The Boone Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: The Uc Davis Foundation ($106k), Zendo Project Inc ($33k), Novato Unified School District ($15k).
Does The Boone Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Boone Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is The Boone Family Foundation based?
The Boone Family Foundation is based in DE.

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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Boone Family’s filings →

More from the funding graph