· Private foundation
The Bunky Fund
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $5,200 |
| THE TREE TRUST | $2,000 |
| AUDUBON ALASKA | $2,000 |
| COURAGE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY OF MINNESOTA | $2,000 |
| THE RAPTOR CENTER | $2,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| KIVA MICROFUNDS | $2,000 |
| SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE | $2,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| NORTHERN ALASKA ENVIROMENTAL CENTER | $2,000 |
| THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Save The Children Federation Inc5× · 2017–2022 · $13k · revenue +21%- TWTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY6× · 2017–2022 · $10k · revenue +27%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2017–2022 · $10k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- KMKIVA MICROFUNDSone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Founded in 1974, trustees for alaska serves the public interest by providing legal counsel to protect and defend alaska's lands, waters, wildlife, and people.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ALASKA ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Tree Trust ↗
- Who funds West Sound Wildlife Shelter ↗
- Who funds KIVA MICROFUNDS ↗
- Who funds BAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bunky Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bunky Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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