Funding search · EIN 300748315 · Boston, MA

Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

3,620
grants reported
$914.9M
total given
2022–2024
filing years
$17,500
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

  • Transfers to other donor-advised fund sponsors (most of the dollars)
  • Private schools, universities and college foundations
  • Churches, dioceses and faith-based mission organizations
  • Community services: food banks, housing, legal aid, youth programs
  • Hospitals, medical centers and disease-specific research funds
  • Arts, music education, land conservation and parks

Typical grant

Median grant is $17,500, with the middle half between $10,000 and $40,021, so nearly all activity is small donor-advised checks. The very large checks are not program grants at all: $619.8M went to Renaissance Charitable Foundation and tens of millions more to Fidelity, Vanguard, Schwab and National Philanthropic Trust, which are DAF-to-DAF transfers. Six-figure gifts do occur, but they cluster around a donor's own school, church or hometown institution rather than a stated funding priority.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

  • TO FURTHER THE ORGANIZATION'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

Positioning adjacent work

  • Treat this as a DAF sponsor, not a foundation; the decision maker is an individual donor, not staff.
  • Identify BNY Mellon wealth clients already tied to your institution and ask them to recommend a grant.
  • Size a first ask at $10,000 to $40,000, matching the middle half of their distributions.
  • Anchor to funded themes: education access, workforce training, health systems, or land and parks conservation.

Worth knowing: California, Massachusetts and New York account for the bulk of recipients, with a striking New Bedford, MA cluster (Our Sisters School, Youth Opportunities Unlimited, Community Boating Center, New Bedford Symphony, Immigrants' Assistance Center) that signals one or two large local donors. Giving here is entirely relationship-driven; there is no shared program logic across 2,151 recipients, and a cold approach to Boston will go nowhere.

0 grants matching “vision and hearing

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Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

  • Renaissance Charitable Foundation3 grants · $620.2M
  • Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund4 grants · $31.1M
  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints3 grants · $24.0M
  • Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund1 grant · $15.0M
  • Trustees of Dartmouth College2 grants · $6.6M
  • Stanford University3 grants · $6.1M
  • National Philanthropic Trust2 grants · $5.2M
  • Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program1 grant · $5.0M
  • National Christian Charitable Foundation3 grants · $4.3M
  • Tabor Academy3 grants · $3.3M

Giving over time

$82.1M
2022
$112.6M
2023
$720.2M
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 3,620 grants.

  • $619.8M

    Renaissance Charitable Foundation · Indianapolis, IN · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $16.8M

    Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Cincinnati, OH · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $16.0M

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints · Salt Lake City, UT · 2022

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $15.0M

    Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund · Albanew York, NY · 2022

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $6.9M

    Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Boston, MA · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $6.5M

    Trustees of Dartmouth College · Hanover, NH · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $5.7M

    Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $5.6M

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints · Salt Lake City, UT · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $5.0M

    Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Warwick, RI · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $4.8M

    Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Cincinnati, OH · 2022

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $3.8M

    National Philanthropic Trust · Jenkintown, PA · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $2.6M

    Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Cincinnati, OH · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $2.5M

    Tampa Preparatory School · Tampa, FL · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $2.5M

    National Christian Charitable Foundation · Alpharetta, GA · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $2.3M

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints · Salt Lake City, UT · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $2.0M

    Exploratorium · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $2.0M

    Museum of Arts and Design · New York, NY · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $2.0M

    Opportunity Village Foundation · Las Vegas, NV · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.8M

    National Christian Charitable Foundation · Alpharetta, GA · 2022

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.8M

    Chicago Community Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.7M

    Abilene Christian University · Abilene, TX · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.6M

    Schwab Charitable Fund · Orlando, FL · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.5M

    Tabor Academy · Marion, MA · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.5M

    All God'S Children International · Vancouver, WA · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.5M

    Good Steward Foundation of Morrisville Vermont · Morrisville, VT · 2022

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.4M

    National Philanthropic Trust · Jenkintown, PA · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.3M

    Ekadence Learning Foundation · Irvine, CA · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.2M

    Schwab Charitable Fund · Orlando, FL · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.2M

    Central Baptist Church · Owasso, OK · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.1M

    Venetian Heritage · New York, NY · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.1M

    Brown County Community Ymca · Nashville, IN · 2022

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.1M

    Ekadence Learning Foundation · Irvine, CA · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.1M

    Charities Aid Foundation of America · Alexandria, VA · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.0M

    Habitat for Humanity · Americus, GA · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.0M

    Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.0M

    Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.0M

    Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.0M

    Habitat for Humanity · Americus, GA · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.0M

    Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union · Mount Vernon, VA · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.0M

    Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.0M

    The Kurzius Family Fund · Dallas, TX · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.0M

    29 Acres · Dallas, TX · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.0M

    California Academy of Sciences · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.0M

    Indiana University Health Foundation Inc Fka Methodist Health Foundatio · Indianapolis, IN · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.0M

    The Corning Museum of Glass · Corning, NY · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.0M

    University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation · Las Vegas, NV · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.0M

    Zeiterion Theatre · New Bedford, MA · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $1.0M

    29 Acres · Dallas, TX · 2022

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $950,000

    Tabor Academy · Marion, MA · 2022

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $921,687

    American Endowment Foundation · Hudson, OH · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $900,000

    Florida Southern College · Lakeland, FL · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $880,750

    American National Red Cross · Boone, IA · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $878,000

    Tabor Academy · Marion, MA · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $836,000

    Chapel & York Foundation US · Ny, NY · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $835,000

    Abilene Christian University · Abilene, TX · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $754,177

    Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust · Purchase, NY · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $750,000

    Lakeland Regional Health Foundation · Lakeland, FL · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $750,000

    Research & Robotics · New Bedford, MA · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $700,000

    Brown County Community Ymca · Nashville, IN · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $700,000

    The Arc San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $700,000

    Impactassets · Bethesda, MD · 2022

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $685,000

    Appalachian State University Foundation · Boone, NC · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $675,000

    Mercer University · Macon, GA · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $652,500

    Eastridge Church · Issaquah, WA · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $646,000

    Eastridge Church · Issaquah, WA · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $620,000

    Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union · Mount Vernon, VA · 2022

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $608,389

    United Church of Christ · Sharpsburg, MD · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $600,000

    New Bedford Symphony Orchestra · New Bedford, MA · 2022

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $600,000

    Our Sisters School · New Bedford, MA · 2022

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $575,594

    Stifel Charitable · St Louis, MO · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $567,000

    Eastridge Church · Sammamish, WA · 2022

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $552,500

    Mt Bethel Church · Marietta, GA · 2022

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $550,000

    University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $550,000

    Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York · Wallkill, NY · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $550,000

    Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York · Wallkill, NY · 2022

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $533,334

    Paideia School Incorporated · Atlanta, GA · 2022

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $520,000

    Chapel & York Foundation US · Ny, NY · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $510,000

    Children'S Hospital Boston · Boston, MA · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $510,000

    Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $510,000

    Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota County · Sarasota, FL · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $501,000

    Our Sisters School · New Bedford, MA · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $500,750

    Our Sisters School · New Bedford, MA · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $500,000

    All God'S Children International · Vancouver, WA · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $500,000

    Codeorg · Seattle, WA · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $500,000

    Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada · Las Vegas, NV · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $500,000

    Skillup Coalition · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $500,000

    Youth Opportunities Unlimited · New Bedford, MA · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $500,000

    Alliant Charitable Foundation · Pasadena, CA · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $500,000

    American National Red Cross · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $500,000

    Eggnog Latte Foundation · New York, NY · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $500,000

    National Governors Association Center for Best Practices · Washington, DC · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $500,000

    Riverside Community Care · Dedham, MA · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $500,000

    United Way of Southern Nevada · Las Vegas, NV · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $500,000

    Alliant Charitable Foundation · Pasadena, CA · 2022

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $500,000

    Community Boating Center · New Bedford, MA · 2022

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $500,000

    Indian Hill Music · Littleton, MA · 2022

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $500,000

    The Corning Museum of Glass · Corning, NY · 2022

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $500,000

    Zeiterion Theatre · New Bedford, MA · 2022

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $450,000

    Falmouth Academy Incorporated · Falmouth, MA · 2024

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

  • $450,000

    Black Fret · Austin, TX · 2023

    To further the organization's exempt purpose

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.