Washington · Nonprofit
THE BUNGIE FOUNDATION
THE BUNGIE FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,154,727 to it, the largest being CHILD'S PLAY ($2,510,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What The Bungie Foundation does
Mission
The Bungie Foundation reduces distress and suffering in children through entertainment and partners with humanitarian aid organizations in times of natural disaster and crisis.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The little lights program launched in 2012. The program served patients both by loaning customized ipads to patients staying in the hospital, as well as providing ipads to hospital staff to use in their direct interventions with patients. Hospital staff includes child life specialists, music therapy, art therapy, and recreation therapy.
$1,923,271 spentof which $1,685,981 as grants53% of program spendingThe Bungie Foundation makes grants for humanitarian need based on current global needs such as natural disasters.
$1,173,195 spentof which $1,075,250 as grants32% of program spendingThe Bungie Foundation partners with make-a-wish alaska & washington chapter to grant wishes in two ways - we host children and their families at bungie to give them an exclusive tour of our facilities, as well as allow them to actively participate in bungie activities such as motion capture, voice recording, gameplay, and one on one lessons with our staff. The second way in which we grant wishes is by purchasing and facilitating the delivery/installment of all electronic wishes for the alaska & washington chapter.
$552,567 spentof which $377,436 as grants15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,649,033.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $4.1M to $5.9M (+44%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
98% of THE BUNGIE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income fell $308k → $85k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE BUNGIE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE BUNGIE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE BUNGIE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 54% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of THE BUNGIE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of THE BUNGIE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $618k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE BUNGIE FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE BUNGIE FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Bungie Inc · corp_trust
- Bungie Holdco · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BUNGIE FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE BUNGIE FOUNDATION?
- THE BUNGIE FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,154,727 to it, the largest being CHILD'S PLAY ($2,510,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BUNGIE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $3,154,727 in grants to THE BUNGIE FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BUNGIE FOUNDATION?
- CHILD'S PLAY is the largest funder on record, with $2,510,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BUNGIE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing