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The Bouncer Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Bouncer Foundation Inc

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.

$750k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Education$7.9MArts & Culture$565kPhilanthropy$480kYouth Development$281kPublic Benefit$125kScience & Tech$100kEmployment$85kCrime & Legal$80kOther$0
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
50 CAN$500,000
CAPITAL PREPARATORY SCHOOLS INC$250,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR RESEARCH FOUND: $50k → 16%TEACH A CLASS: $50k → 10%HIGH TECH FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%STUDENTS FIRST INSTITUTE: $100k → 12%NYC OUTWARD BOUND: $25k → 13%NORTHEAST CHARTER SCHOOLS NETWORK: $150k → 14%EDUCATION REFORM NOW: $50k → 20%50 CAN: $875k → 14%DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY: $500k → 17%CAPITAL PREPARATORY SCHOOLS INC: $250k → 7%CAPITAL PREPARATORY SCHOOLS INC: $250k → 9%YANKEE INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC POLICY: $125k → 11%CAMPAIGN FOR TOMORROW'S JOBS: $85k → 12%AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS: $25k → 14%INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE: $30k → 7%NYC OUTWARD BOUND: $25k → 13%NORTHEAST CHARTER SCHOOLS NETWORK: $150k → 14%RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL: $50k → 17%50 CAN: $675k → 14%CAPITAL PREPARATORY SCHOOLS INC: $250k → 7%CAPITAL PREPARATORY SCHOOLS INC: $250k → 9%ACHIEVEMENT FIRST: $350k → 12%INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE: $30k → 7%NYC OUTWARD BOUND: $25k → 13%STUDENTS FOR EDUCATION REFORM: $25k → 17%50 CAN: $625k → 14%FAITHACTS FOR EDUCATION: $200k → 9%ACHIEVEMENT FIRST: $300k → 12%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $20k → 7%50 CAN: $300k → 14%GREAT OAKS CHARTER SCHOOL - BRIDGEP: $100k → 9%TEACH FOR AMERICA: $25k → 12%THE 74 MEDIA: $50k → 17%50 CAN: $500k → 14%GREAT OAKS CHARTER SCHOOL - BRIDGEP: $25k → 9%CONNECTICUT COALITION FOR ACHIEVEME: $250k → 12%BOOKER T WASHINGTON ACADEMY: $150k → 12%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $520k → 17%TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $200k → 14%BOOKER T WASHINGTON ACADEMY: $100k → 12%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $250k → 17%GREENWICH LIBRARY TRUSTEE DEV FUND: $250k → 9%BOOKER T WASHINGTON ACADEMY: $75k → 12%CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY: $50k → 17%TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%FAMILIES FOR EXCELLENT SCHOOLS: $333k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $77k → 17%TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%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

IL
WI
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
VA
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 9% of The Bouncer Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Bouncer Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.6% 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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.3M · 13 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +100% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2021, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
25

Total granted

$6.3M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%
+19%

Still filing today

85%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationInternationalCivil RightsArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • 5I
    50CAN INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $3.0M · revenue ×13
  • CP
    CAPITAL PREPARATORY SCHOOLS INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +153%
  • AF
    ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $650k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +227%
  • TM
    TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $450k
  • FF
    FAMILIES FOR EXCELLENT SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $333k
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
The New American Academy Charter School

The new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…

Education
2
Bronx Charter School for Excellence

Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…

Education
3
Greatschools Inc

Greatschools is the leading nonprofit providing high-quality information that supports parents pursuing a great education for their child, schools striving for excellence, and communities working to diminish inequities in education.

Education
4
Out Teach

Out teach's mission is to inspire and prepare today's elementary students to explore the wonders of science and become tomorrow's innovators. out teach works to ensure that all studentsregardless of race, zip code, or access to…

Education
5
Stamford Charter School for Excellence

The stamford charter school for excellence prepares young people in stamford, connecticut to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social,…

Education
6
Compass Charter School

Compass charter school is a safe and nurturing educational environment that honors the individuality of each learner. by engaging in a process of inquiry, our graduates will be equipped with the necessary skills to lead fulfilling personal…

Education
7
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
8
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School

Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.

Education
9
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
10
Democracy Prep Public Schools

To educate responsible citizen scholars for success in the college of their choice and a life of active citizenship.

Arts & Culture
11
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
12
Classical Charter Schools

Classical charter schools prepares k-8th grade students in the south bronx to excel in college-preparatory high schools. through a classical curriculum and highly structured setting, students become liberated scholars and citizens of…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Capital Preparatory Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is Teach a Class. 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

25 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. 25 of the 39 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

50CAN INC: $2,975,000 · Education50CAN INCCAPITAL PREPARATORY SCHOOLS INC: $1,000,000 · EducationCAPITAL PREPARATORY SCHOOLS INCTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $847,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $650,000 · EducationACHIEVEMENT FIRST INCDR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC: $500,000 · EducationDR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INCBooker T Washington Academy Inc: $325,000 · EducationNORTHEAST CHARTER SCHOOLS NETWORK INC: $300,000 · Education+11 more: $434,000 · Education+11 moreTURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $450,000 · OtherTURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUND…FAMILIES FOR EXCELLENT SCHOOLS: $333,000 · OtherFAMILIES FOR EXCELLENT S…CONNECTICUT COALITION FOR ACHIEVEME: $250,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT COALITION FO…GREENWICH LIBRARY TRUSTEE DEV FUND: $250,000 · OtherGREENWICH LIBRARY TRUSTE…GREAT OAKS CHARTER SCHOOL - BRIDGEP: $125,000 · OtherGREAT OAKS CHARTER SCHOO…YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $125,000 · OtherYANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUB…HIGH TECH FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherSTUDENTS FIRST INSTITUTE: $100,000 · OtherCAMPAIGN FOR TOMORROW'S JOBS: $85,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · Other+6 more: $185,000 · Other+6 moreTURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US): $450,000 · InternationalINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $80,000 · Civil RightsTHE 74 MEDIA INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $30,000 · PhilanthropyHARTFORD KNIGHTS CORP: $6,000 · Youth Development
Education$7,031,000Other$2,078,000International$450,000Civil Rights$80,000Arts & Culture$50,000Philanthropy$30,000Youth Development$6,000

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 budget50CAN INC: $2,975,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetCAPITAL PREPARATORY SCHOOLS INC: $1,000,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $847,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $650,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC: $500,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetTURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US): $450,000 over 3y, 78% of budgetBooker T Washington Academy Inc: $325,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetNORTHEAST CHARTER SCHOOLS NETWORK INC: $300,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetFAITHACTS FOR EDUCATION INC: $220,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetYANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $125,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY: $55,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTEACH A CLASS: $50,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetEDUCATION REFORM NOW INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE 74 MEDIA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOUR TURN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND BASECAMP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGirls With Impact Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALL OUR KIN INC: $4,000 over 2y, 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.

The Peter and Carmen …Charter Fund Inc D/B/…Fairfield County's Co…William Caspar Graust…Hartford Foundation f…The Eli and Edythe Br…Newalliance Foundatio…Walton Family Foundat…Charity Bridge FundJewish Communal FundSilicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…
The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation IncNY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation Inc · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Charity Bridge Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Bouncer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bouncer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Hartford Knights Corp: 68% of income from government
  • All Our Kin Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Achievement First Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Bouncer Foundation Inc 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 39 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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