· Private foundation
The Enlightened Bulldog Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $5,511 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $2,643 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| YALE LAW SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| MICHIGAN 22 PRESIDENTS FUND | $2,000 |
| PARK SYNAGOGUE | $1,830 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,562 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND | $1,500 |
| MOCA | $1,050 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MENDING KIDS | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +112% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBEAR GIVERS INC2× · 2021–2022 · $125k · revenue +112%
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2021–2023 · $11k
- UOUniversity of Michigan3× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2k
THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +8%- SMST MAURICE CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $175
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
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.
Dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
The materials research society (mrs) is an organization of materials researchers worldwide that promotes communication for the advancement of interdisciplinary materials research and technology to improve the quality of life.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
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 32 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 BEAR GIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Mending Kids International dba Mending Kids ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER NATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Enlightened Bulldog Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Enlightened Bulldog Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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