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The Bunchberry Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC | $13,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER HOUSTON | $13,000 |
| PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM | $5,500 |
| HOUSTON BALLET FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON | $5,500 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART | $5,400 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $4,400 |
| HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $4,400 |
| HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE | $4,300 |
| MILITARY WARRIORS SUPPORT FOUNDATION | $4,100 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $4,100 |
| GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $4,100 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $4,100 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $3,400 |
| PIERRE MONTEUX MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $3,200 |
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 (FY17–25, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +24%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +98%- TMTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $41k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- NMNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ARTone grant, 2019 · $5k
- MOMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTONone grant, 2019 · $5k
- W(WGBH (TV AND CLASSICAL MUSIC PROGRAMMING)one grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
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.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Methodist Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Chase Collegiate School Foundation. 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 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 36 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 WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Houston Ballet Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
- Who funds PIERRE MONTEUX MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds STANWOOD WILDLIFE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds MILITARY WARRIORS SUPPORT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GORDON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HAWAII TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds Frenchman Bay Conservancy ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHASE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I · Fidelity Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Bunchberry 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.
- Native Plant Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Gordon College — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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