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The W Richard Bingham and Winifred W Bingham Foundation at a glance

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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
Grants FY2023
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

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

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’23
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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0189% 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
02FY2023 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $143,850, the rows itemized in this filing. The $148,850 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k18 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hoover Institution / Stanford University$100,000
California Academy of Sciences$10,000
COX Science Center And Aquarium$5,000
Cape ANN Museum$5,000
Chapel and York US Foundation, Inc.$5,000
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution$5,000
American Red Cross South Florida Region$3,000
Guide Dogs for the Blind$2,500
Legacy Philantrhopy Works$1,500
ST. John's Church$1,000
Island Health Project, Inc$1,000
Suffield Academy$1,000
The Thacher School$1,000
EFFROC$500
Fisher Island Community Center$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 17% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Leland Stanford Junior University: $100k → 8%The Thacher School: $750 → 10%University of California Berkeley: $33k → 10%California Academy of Sciences: $25k → 10%Legacy Philanthropy: $300 → 14%VARIOUS (SEE ATTACHED): $364k → 7%Island Health Project: $500 → 7%National Audobon Society Inc: $500 → 17%Bethesda By the Sea: $250 → 11%St Johns Church: $2k → 9%Suffield Academy: $750 → 11%Bellwether School: $250 → 10%VARIOUS (SEE ATTACHED): $360k → 7%Island Community Center: $250 → 7%South Florida Science Center and Aquarium: $5k → 11%VARIOUS (SEE ATTACHED): $75k → 7%Henry L Ferguson Museum: $250 → 7%SEE ATTACHED LIST: $43k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$73k · 7 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
14

Total granted

$73k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+23%

Still filing today

86%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CS
    Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +610%
  • SA
    SUFFIELD ACADEMY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +35%
  • TT
    The Thacher School Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of California Berkeley
    one grant, 2021 · $33k
  • UW
    United Way Palm Beach
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
  • NY
    NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +23%
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.

04Its field

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.

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American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
3
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba the Staten Island Museum

Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…

Arts & Culture
4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
7
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
8
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…

Science & Tech
9
Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Bios Inc

Bios's mission is to seek and share fundamental knowledge of the oceans through state-of-the-art scientific research, world-class field expeditions, and comprehensive educational experiences.

Science & Tech
10
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
11
United States Naval Institute

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.

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12
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Florida Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Red Fox Community School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY+5 more: $7,250 · EducationCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $45,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACADE…Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCox Science Cent…CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCAPE ANN MUSEUM …+1 more: $1,250 · Arts & CultureUniversity of California Berkeley: $33,333 · OtherUniversity of…United Way Palm Beach: $7,000 · OtherUnited Way Pa…St Johns Church: $4,000 · OtherSt Johns Chur…American Red Cross South Florida Region: $3,000 · OtherAmerican Red …ISLAND HEALTH PROJECT INC: $2,500 · Other+11 more: $5,150 · Other+11 moreNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN CLUB OF PALM BEACH INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF MOUNTS BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $500 · EnvironmentCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $5,000 · Science & TechGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesFISHERS ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $250 · Human Services
Education$307,250Arts & Culture$66,250Other$54,983Environment$7,000Philanthropy$5,000Science & Tech$5,000Human Services$2,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of 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 budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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.

W L Lyons Brown Jr Ch…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable FoundationKY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The W Richard Bingham and Winifred W Bingham Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The W Richard Bingham and Winifred W Bingham Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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