· Private foundation
The Bynum Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HELPING HANDS FOR SOUTH SUDAN | $5,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF LOS GATOS | $2,700 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SAN JOSE | $2,000 |
| THE ROTARY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY | $1,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY | $1,000 |
| CHILD FUND INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY | $1,000 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Cornell University8× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +49%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +98%
PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY6× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -40%- TYTODAYS YOUTH MATTERone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +17%
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.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Chemists without borders is a global humanitarian organization committed to sustainable and equitable solutions that empower communities and improve overall well-being. our strategic framework is: service - developing, facilitating, and…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…
Future problem solving proudly celebrates more than 50 years of placing close to a million young people at the core of a dynamic, purposeful learning experience. each year k-12 students from around the world participate in a variety of…
Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932. as both an accredited academic institution and an international ngo, world learning, inc. offers the best of theory and practice…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…
Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 22 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 Cornell University ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SAN JOSE ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS FOR SOUTH SUDAN ↗
- Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds TODAYS YOUTH MATTER ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · 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 Bynum Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bynum Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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