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Walter and Frances Bunzl Foundation Inc at a glance

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Walter and Frances Bunzl Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.8MEmployment$2.6MReligion$2.2MPhilanthropy$1.7MHealth$1.3MInternational$115kFood & Nutrition$30kEnvironment$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
  • $250k+2 grants · $4.2M
$1,650,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jewish Family Career Services$2,500,000
Jewish Federation of Greater Atlant$1,650,000
JScreen$150,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Jewish Family Career Services: $2.5M → 14%Jewish Family Career Services: $100k → 14%Jewish Family Career Services: $5k → 14%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 6 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
17

Total granted

$8.0M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+40%

Still filing today

50%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’25
InternationalFood & NutritionArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • TA
    THE ALBANY MUSEUM OF ART INCORPORA
    2× · 2017–2021 · $3.1M · revenue -9% · 73% of their budget
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC
    3× · 2018–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +167%
  • CH
    Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta
    2× · 2017–2020 · $1.1M

Funded once

  • RC
    RASHIS CAMPUS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $650k
  • CO
    CHABAD OF NORTH FULTON INC
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • BM
    Bremen Museum
    one grant, 2021 · $400k
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.

1
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
4
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
5
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

—
6
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
7
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
8
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
9
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
10
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
11
The Jewish Women's Archive Inc

The jewish women's archive documents jewish women's stories, elevates their voices, and inspires them to be agents of change.jwa is dedicated to expanding and transforming the historical narrative by restoring jewish women and gender…

Arts & Culture
12
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

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 25 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta: $1,100,000 · OtherChildrens Healthcare of AtlantaTEMPLE SINAI INC: $1,005,000 · OtherTEMPLE SINAI INCRASHIS CAMPUS INC: $650,000 · OtherRASHIS CAMPUS INCCHABAD OF NORTH FULTON INC: $500,000 · OtherCHABAD OF NORTH FULTON INCBremen Museum: $400,000 · OtherBremen MuseumAtlanta Alliance Theatre: $155,000 · OtherJScreen: $150,000 · Other+5 more: $100,000 · OtherTHE ALBANY MUSEUM OF ART INCORPORA: $3,051,500 · Arts & CultureTHE ALBANY MUSEUM OF ART INCO…+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC: $2,605,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SE…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $1,661,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATIO…SHEPHERD CENTER INC: $100,000 · HealthPHOEBE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthTHE NORTH AMERICAN LIAISON BUREAU INC: $50,000 · InternationalIMPACTISRAEL INC: $40,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · InternationalATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD WELL ALLIANCE: $5,000 · Food & NutritionHighlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc: $5,000 · Environment
Other$4,060,000Arts & Culture$3,056,500Human Services$2,605,000Philanthropy$1,661,000Health$120,000International$115,000Food & Nutrition$30,000Environment$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ALBANY MUSEUM OF ART INCORPORA: $3,051,500 over 2y, 73% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC: $2,605,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $1,661,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHOEBE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD WELL ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,000 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Walter and Frances Bunzl Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walter and Frances Bunzl Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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