Delaware · Private foundation
The John Bickford Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $204k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 46 to 59
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations The John Bickford Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 53 | $201k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $185k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $165k | 46% |
| FY2022 | 56 | $207k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $204k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $164k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 58 | $190k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 59 | $199k | 22% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Morris Museum Inc | $133,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Strawbery Banke Museum | $40,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Interfaith Food Pantry Inc | $40,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Homeless Solutions Inc | $32,920 | 8 | 0% |
| Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Market Street Mission Inc | $25,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Literacy Volunteers of Morris County Inc | $23,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Litworld International Inc | $23,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Princeton Nursery School | $22,500 | 6 | 1% |
| New Hampshire Humanities Council | $20,500 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 103 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($637k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The John Bickford Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 91 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: Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · The Mimi Washington Starrett Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · A Caring Community Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc · Blue Foundry Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The John Bickford Foundation
- How much does The John Bickford Foundation give?
- The John Bickford Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $203,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 59 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The John Bickford Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), Religion (14%), Education (14%).
- Who are The John Bickford Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Morris Museum Inc ($133k), Strawbery Banke Museum ($41k), Interfaith Food Pantry Inc ($40k).
- Does The John Bickford Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The John Bickford Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The John Bickford Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fm Kirby Foundation Inc, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, The Hyde and Watson Foundation.
- Where is The John Bickford Foundation based?
- The John Bickford Foundation is based in DE.
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