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The W Richard Bingham and Winifred W Bingham 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.

$149k
Granted FY2023
20
Itemized grants FY2023
18
Organizations funded FY2023
61%
First-time grantees FY2023
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71% of The W Richard Bingham and Winifred W Bingham Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’17
0
’19
0
’20
11
’21
11
’22
11
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Itemized, FY2023
$144k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 18
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
7
Total assets, FY2023
$4.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 61% of the organizations The W Richard Bingham and Winifred W Bingham Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
EnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureScience & TechEducationRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202318$39k61%
FY202213$34k46%
FY202115$71kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$341kScience & Tech$65kPhilanthropy$14kArts & Culture$7kEnvironment$7kReligion$5kHuman Services$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of The W Richard Bingham and Winifred W Bingham Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
California Academy of Sciences$45,00030%
Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc$15,00030%
Cape Ann Museum Inc$5,00010%
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution$5,00010%
New York Botanical Garden$5,00010%
Suffield Academy$2,75030%
The Thacher School Inc$2,75030%
Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc$2,50010%
Island Health Project Inc$2,50030%
Henry L Ferguson Museum$1,25030%
The University of Florida Foundation Inc$1,00010%
The Garden Club of Palm Beach Inc$1,00010%
The Lord's Place Inc$50010%
Red Fox Community School$50010%
Church of Bethesda by the Sea Inc$5001n/a
Oakland Genesis DBA Oakland Genesis Soccer Club$50010%
National Audubon Society Inc$50010%
Friends of Mounts Botanical Garden Inc$50010%
Legacy Philanthropy Inc$3001n/a
The Bellwether School$25010%
Fishers Island Community Center Inc$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($51k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The W Richard Bingham and Winifred W Bingham Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCalifornia Academy of Sciences: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCape Ann Museum Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Botanical Garden: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSuffield Academy: $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Thacher School Inc: $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGuide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Health Project Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHenry L Ferguson Museum: $1,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe University of Florida Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Garden Club of Palm Beach Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Lord's Place Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRed Fox Community School: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOakland Genesis DBA Oakland Genesis Soccer Club: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Audubon Society Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Mounts Botanical Garden Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bellwether School: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFishers Island Community Center Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The W Richard Bingham and Winifred W Bingham Foundation

How much does The W Richard Bingham and Winifred W Bingham Foundation give?
The W Richard Bingham and Winifred W Bingham Foundation reported 20 itemized grants totaling $143,850, out of $148,850 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 18 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does The W Richard Bingham and Winifred W Bingham Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (26%), Science & Tech (5%), Philanthropy (1%).
Who are The W Richard Bingham and Winifred W Bingham Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: California Academy of Sciences ($45k), Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc ($15k), Cape Ann Museum Inc ($5k).
Does The W Richard Bingham and Winifred W Bingham Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The W Richard Bingham and Winifred W Bingham 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 W Richard Bingham and Winifred W Bingham Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Charities Aid Foundation America.
Where is The W Richard Bingham and Winifred W Bingham Foundation based?
The W Richard Bingham and Winifred W Bingham Foundation is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $43k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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