Maryland · Private foundation
The Bunting 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.
- $6.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 104
- Grants FY2024
- 163
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,055,624
- Organizations funded a year
- 112 to 163
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $78M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations The Bunting Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 100 | $6.6M | 3% |
| FY2023 | 163 | $9.0M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 141 | $7.9M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 133 | $7.0M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 116 | $4.9M | 11% |
| FY2019 | 125 | $4.5M | 18% |
| FY2018 | 112 | $3.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc | $2,727,360 | 7 | 3% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $1,312,712 | 4 | 0% |
| National Aquarium Inc | $1,295,589 | 7 | 1% |
| Earthjustice | $1,240,979 | 7 | 0% |
| Chesapeake Conservancy Inc | $1,095,535 | 7 | 2% |
| Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc | $1,093,135 | 7 | 1% |
| Washington College | $826,984 | 7 | 0% |
| The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism | $700,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Health Care for the Homeless Inc | $675,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Northern Kenya Fund | $628,000 | 6 | 38% |
Show all 181 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 63 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Bunting Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 165 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Mary Catherine Bunting Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Bunting Family Foundation
- How much does The Bunting Family Foundation give?
- The Bunting Family Foundation reported 104 grants totaling $6,605,794 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 112 and 163 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does The Bunting Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (27%), Education (14%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are The Bunting Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc ($2.7M), Johns Hopkins University ($1.3M), National Aquarium Inc ($1.3M).
- Does The Bunting Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bunting 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bunting Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baltimore Community Foundation Inc, The Abell Foundation Inc, France-Merrick Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Bunting Family Foundation based?
- The Bunting Family Foundation is based in MD.
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