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The Bondi Foundation

Greenwich, CT · EIN 13-4015931. Reported 69 grants totalling $4,439,620 to 36 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$25,000median grant
$4,439,620granted, 2021-2024
36organizations funded
65%of grantees funded again the next year
$30.3Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Bondi Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $25,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $20,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $7,500 and the largest $528,907. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
22 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
18 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
6 grants
$100,000 and Up
22 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Anglo-American Charitable Foundation LtdSmithfield, NC$1,140,846442024
Adopt a DogArmonk, NY$400,000332024
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenterNew York, NY$400,000442024
Safe Horizon IncNew York, NY$400,000442024
Weill Cornell Medical CollegeNew York, NY$250,000332023
Barrow Neurological FoundationPhoenix, AZ$210,000222024
Global Hunger ProjectNew York, NY$200,000112021
St Mary's Hospital for ChildrenBayside, NY$190,000332023
Hands in 4 Youth IncWest Milford, NJ$135,000442024
St Mary's Foundation for ChildrenBayside, NY$110,000112024
Trustees of Columbia UniversityNew York, NY$101,371112024
Playwrights Horizons IncNew York, NY$100,000442024
Makeway FoundationVancouver$96,703222024
Synchronicity Earth USA IncNew York, NY$90,000442024
Boston CollegeChestnut Hill, MA$75,000332024
Children's Aid SocietyNew York, NY$60,000222023
Rudolf Steiner Foundation IncSan Rancisco, CA$50,000112021
Steiger InternationalEden Prairie, MN$50,000112023
Leukemia & Lymphoma SocietyNew York, NY$40,000222024
Iraqi Children FoundationFalls Church, VA$35,000112021
Silver Shield FoundationNew York, NY$35,000112022
Connecticut FoodshareWallingford, CT$30,000332024
International Conservation Fund CorporationBoston, MA$30,000112022
The Conservation FundArlington, VA$30,000112021
Appalachian Peace Education CenterWinchester, KY$25,000112023
Salvation Army of Greater New YorkNew York, NY$25,000112022
Children's AidNew York, NY$20,000112021
National Coalition for Community CapitalRidgewood, NY$20,000112023
Special Operation Forces to School of MedicineRaleigh, NC$20,000222024
Amazon WatchOakland, CA$13,200112024
Connecticut Food BankBridgeport, CT$10,000112021
Food Bank for New York CityNew York, NY$10,000112024
New York Center for Autism Charter SchoolNew York, NY$10,000112024
Schumacher Center for a New Economics IncNewburgh, NY$10,000112022
The Wellspring Common Stewards IncLitchfield, CT$10,000112024
Boa FoundationWoodland Hills, CA$7,500112023

16 of 36 (44%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 65%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 38 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
6 grants
Environment
6 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 grants
Recreation & Sports
4 grants
Arts & Culture
4 grants
Diseases & Disorders
4 grants
Animal Welfare
3 grants
Health Care
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202114$862,893$32,500
202216$1,040,971$32,500
202320$1,276,903$32,500
202419$1,258,853$25,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 57% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$2.5M
North Carolina
$1.2M
Arizona
$210K
New Jersey
$135K
Massachusetts
$105K
California
$71K
Virginia
$65K
Connecticut
$50K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc17 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund15 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust14 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc13 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc12 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program11 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $25,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Bondi Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Co Jpmorgan 100 W Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT, 06830. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 13-4015931 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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