The Bg Charitable Foundation
New York, NY · EIN 83-2961401. Reported 80 grants totalling $409,475 to 58 recipients across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
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 Bg Charitable 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.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $1,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $4,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $75,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Thomas Church | New York, NY | $115,450 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| US Charitable Gift Trust | Indianapolis, IN | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Church Club of New York | New York, NY | $45,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Path to Peace Foundation | New York, NY | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Fund for Park Avenue | New York, NY | $12,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| The Colony Foundation | New Haven, CT | $11,600 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Order of Saint John | Washington, DC | $11,250 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Upper East Side | New York, NY | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Metropolitan Opera Association | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| 1848 Association | New Haven, CT | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Pilgrims Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Episcopal Charities | New York, NY | $4,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The St Nicholas Society of the City of New York | New York, NY | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Olana Partnership | Hudson, NY | $3,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Uja - Federation of New York | New York, NY | $3,125 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| American Acadamey in Rome | New York, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Four Freedoms Park Conservancy | New York, NY | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The New England Society in the City of New York | New York, NY | $2,800 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Preservation League of Nys | Albany, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The University of Oklahoma University Development Office | Norman, OK | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Cathedral of St John the Divine | New York, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Charlotte Hungerford Hospital | Torrington, CT | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Four Freedoms Foundation | New York, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Holland Society of New York | New York, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Nj Co John Mcc Shannon Pres | Wadmalaw Island, SC | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Stand With Iraqi Christians | Radnor, PA | $1,250 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Church of Transfiguration | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lawyer Assistance Programnyc Bar Fund | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Life Enhancement Center at Oyster Bay | Oyster Bay, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Society of Colonial Wars | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Stuyvesant Cover Park Association | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Manhattan Theater Club | New York, NY | $600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Peters Church Our Lady of the Rosary | New York, NY | $600 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Decorative Arts Trust | Media, PA | $600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Calvin Hill Day Care Center | New Haven, CT | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Decorative Arts Society | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| House of Redeemer | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Israeli Guide Dog Center | Warrington, PA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Juilliard | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Maria Droste Counseling Services Co Sisters of the Good Shepherd | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Pg Chambers School | Cedar Knolls, NJ | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Poets House | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Buckley Institute | New Haven, CT | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Society of the Cincinnati | Washington, DC | $500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Undue Medical Debt | Long Island City, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Museum of Modern Art | New York, NY | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Breast Cancer Research Foundation | New York, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| CASA Westchester | Tarrytown, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Historic House Trust of New York City | New York, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kula for Karma | Franklin Lakes, NJ | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Haven Habitat for Humanity | New Haven, CT | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Saint Nicholas Society | New York, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alzheimer's Association | New York, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Equal Justice America | Midlothian, VA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New England Historic Genealogical Society | Boston, MA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Yale University Class of 1971 | New Haven, CT | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
12 of 58 (21%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 29%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 33 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 15 | $72,650 | $1,500 |
| 2021 | 13 | $57,925 | $1,500 |
| 2022 | 20 | $76,250 | $1,500 |
| 2023 | 16 | $178,500 | $2,000 |
| 2024 | 16 | $24,150 | $800 |
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
63% of its giving went to organizations in New York. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,500. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
- 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.
- 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 Bg Charitable Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 909 Third Avenue 27 Fl, New York, NY, 10022. 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.
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