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BPI Foundation
The BPI Foundation is committed to charitable and education initiatives aimed at improving access to financial services and providing academic scholarship concerning sound financial regulation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Committee on Capital Markets Regulation | $30,000 |
| Program on Int'l Fin Systems | $11,000 |
| Women in Housing and Finance | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 56% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of BPI Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +227% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- TBTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +46%
- COCOMMITTEE ON CAPITAL MARKETS REGULATION INC C/O HAL S SCOTT2× · 2023–2024 · $80k · revenue +3%
- TFTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL2× · 2017–2018 · $45k · revenue +288%
Funded once
- PCPrevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndnone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +17%
- NCNATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -4%
- GWGLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +196%
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 mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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…
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
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 primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naf and the most unlike its peers is Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 20 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 THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON CAPITAL MARKETS REGULATION INC C/O HAL S SCOTT ↗
- Who funds TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL ↗
- Who funds PROGRAM ON INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds The Resurrection Project ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NAF ↗
- Who funds CITIES FOR FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WORKING IN SUPPORT OF EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN HOUSING AND FINANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL 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: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 BPI 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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