Funding search · EIN 137111099 · Woodbridge, NJ

The Bessemer Giving Fund

Name: The Bessemer Giving Fund grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

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

4,186
grants reported: $368.9M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $21,482
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

scholarship campaign capital education research gift medical ukraine

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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

Higher education and independent K-12 schools, general and capital support
Hospitals, medical research and children's health foundations
Animal welfare, conservation and environmental legal advocacy
Faith-based relief, missions and churches
Community foundations and other donor-advised sponsors (regranting)
Arts, museums and local civic institutions

Typical grant

Median grant is about $21,500, with the middle half between $10,000 and $50,000. The seven-figure checks go to universities, private schools running capital campaigns, hospital foundations, and transfers to other donor-advised fund sponsors like Fidelity and Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund. With 4,186 grants to 2,595 recipients over three years, many institutions appear more than once, so repeat giving is common but the amount fluctuates with the underlying donor.

Their words

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

“GENERAL SUPPORT”
“GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT”
“CAPITAL CAMPAIGN”
“CHARITABLE PURPOSE”
“MEDICAL RESEARCH”
“SCHOLARSHIP FUND”

Positioning adjacent work

Frame the ask as unrestricted general support or a named capital campaign, the two labels that dominate the file.
For research, connect to their medical research and university giving; ask in the $25,000 to $100,000 band first.
Route through your institution's development office; gifts here land at university and hospital foundations, not project offices.
Identify the individual donor behind the fund; this is a donor-advised vehicle, and the relationship is with a person.

Worth knowing: This is Bessemer Trust's donor-advised giving vehicle, not a foundation with staff-driven priorities, so the pattern reflects thousands of individual account holders rather than a strategy you can pitch. Money clusters in NY, CA, FL, MA and DC, with visible pockets in Naples, San Diego and Jackson Hole where wealthy clients live, and large sums move to Fidelity, Schwab and National Philanthropic Trust as account transfers.

Top recipients

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

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania2 grants · $20.2M
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund2 grants · $13.2M
Waterkeeper Alliance3 grants · $7.8M
New Venture Fund2 grants · $6.0M
Abilene Heritage Square2 grants · $6.0M
Barnabas Foundation1 grant · $5.8M
Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund2 grants · $5.5M
Purdue Foundation1 grant · $5.0M
Sharp Healthcare Foundation3 grants · $4.3M
California Institute of the Arts3 grants · $3.1M

Giving over time

$104.8M

2022

$125.6M

2023

$138.5M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 4,186 grants.

$20.1M
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
General support, medical research & ott center fund
$8.1M
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Cincinnati, KY · 2024
Charitable purpose
$5.8M
Barnabas Foundation · Crete, IL · 2022
General support
$5.1M
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Covington, KY · 2023
General support
$5.0M
Purdue Foundation · Detroit, VA · 2022
General support
$4.0M
Abilene Heritage Square · Abilene, TX · 2024
General support
$3.9M
Waterkeeper Alliance · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$3.3M
Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund · Albany, NY · 2024
General support
$3.1M
Waterkeeper Alliance · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$3.0M
Potomac School · McLean, VA · 2024
Capital campaign
$3.0M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
$3.0M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
General support
$2.9M
Columbia Business School · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$2.3M
Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund · New York, NY · 2023
Funding charitable account
$2.0M
Engineering Tomorrow Co · Fairfax Station, VA · 2024
General support
$2.0M
Abilene Heritage Square · Abilene, TX · 2023
General support
$2.0M
Best Friends Animal Society · Kanab, UT · 2024
General support
$1.9M
California Institute of the Arts · Valencia, CA · 2024
General operating support
$1.8M
Jewish Federatio of Greater Naples · Naples, FL · 2022
General support
$1.8M
Terra Naam Retreat Charitable Trust · Worcester, VT · 2024
General support
$1.8M
The Milken Institute · Santa Monica, CA · 2022
Medical research programs
$1.8M
The Sage School · Hailey, ID · 2022
General support
$1.6M
Pennsylvania State University Philanthropic Fund · University Park, PA · 2024
General support
$1.6M
Greater Horizons · Kansas City, MO · 2023
General support
$1.6M
Stanford University Board of Trustees · Stanford, CA · 2024
Unrestricted gift
$1.6M
Walkerton Community Foundation · Walkerton, IN · 2024
General support
$1.5M
Sant Bani School · Sanbornton, NH · 2024
General support
$1.5M
Americans for Oxford · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$1.5M
Montage Health Foundation · Monterey, CA · 2023
General support
$1.5M
Montage Health Foundation · Monterey, CA · 2022
General support
$1.5M
Gordon College · Wenham, MA · 2023
Scholarship fund
$1.5M
Peoria Womens Club · Peoria, IL · 2022
General support
$1.4M
Sharp Healthcare Foundation · San Diego, CA · 2024
General support
$1.4M
Sharp Healthcare Foundation · San Diego, CA · 2023
General support
$1.4M
Sharp Healthcare Foundation · San Diego, CA · 2022
General support
$1.4M
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2024
General support
$1.3M
The Citadel Foundation · Charleston, SC · 2024
General support
$1.3M
Community Foundation of Collier County · Naples, FL · 2023
Scholarship fund
$1.2M
Community Foundation for Monterey County · Carmel, CA · 2023
General support
$1.1M
California Institute of the Arts · Valencia, CA · 2023
General support
$1.1M
Mayo Clinic · Rochester, MN · 2023
General support
$1.1M
Integrity Foundation · Dallas, TX · 2023
General support
$1.1M
Unite America Institute · Denver, CO · 2022
General support
$1.1M
National Philanthropic Trust · Jenkintown, PA · 2024
Charitable purpose
$1.1M
Mayo Clinic · Rochester, CA · 2022
General support
$1.1M
Chaminade College Preparatory · Chatsworth, CA · 2022
General support
$1.0M
Saddle River Day School · Saddle River, NJ · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Rice University · Houston, TX · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Hackensack University Medical Foundation · Edison, NJ · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Grove City College · Grove City, PA · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Los Angeles Public Press · Sacramento, CA · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation · Miami Beach, FL · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Our House · Little Rock, AR · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Upmc · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Medical research
$1.0M
Denver Film Society · Denver, CO · 2023
General support
$1.0M
Institute for Political Innovation · Chicago, IL · 2023
General support
$1.0M
Institute for Political Innovation · Chicago, IL · 2022
General support
$1.0M
Loras College · Dubuque, IA · 2022
General support
$1.0M
New York-Presbyterian Fund · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$1.0M
Salisbury School · Salisbury, CT · 2022
Education fund
$1.0M
Votingworks · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General support
$997,500
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$957,240
The American Hospital of Paris Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$900,000
Service Dogs of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2024
General support
$830,000
Waterkeeper Alliance · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$821,043
Wellesley College · Wellesley Hills, MA · 2024
Scholarship fund
$811,711
American Endowment Foundation · Hudson, OH · 2023
General support
$800,000
Tisch Multiple Sclerosis Research Center of New York · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$800,000
Unite America Institute · Denver, CO · 2023
General support
$767,500
Stanford Univ Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr · Stanford, CA · 2022
General support
$761,209
Friends Center for Children · New Haven, CT · 2024
General support
$750,000
Mount Paran Church of God · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General support
$750,000
University of Buffalo Foundation · Buffalo, NY · 2024
General support
$750,000
Institute for Nonprofit News · West Hollywood, CA · 2023
General support
$750,000
Hackensack University Medical Foundation · Lodi, NJ · 2022
General support
$750,000
Institute for Nonprofit News · West Hollywood, CA · 2022
General support
$745,712
Uc San Diego Foundation · La Jolla, CA · 2023
General support
$727,000
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2023
Medical research
$700,000
Friends of Conservation Carpathia · Durham, NC · 2024
General support
$700,000
Unite America Institute · Denver, CO · 2024
General support
$700,000
Lacma Museum Associates · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General support
$692,000
University of Notre Dame Du Lac · South Bend, IN · 2024
General support
$662,800
University of Notre Dame Du Lac · Notre Dame, IN · 2023
Scholarship fund
$649,963
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust · Purchase, NY · 2023
General support
$647,919
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024
General support
$642,678
Earthjustice · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General support
$639,615
Schwab Charitable · Orlando, FL · 2022
General support
$637,000
St Jude Children'S Research Hospital · Memphis, TN · 2024
General support
$630,500
St Jude Childrens Research Hospital · Memphis, TN · 2022
General support
$625,000
Advocates for Survivors of Domestic Violence Incorporated · Hailey, ID · 2023
General support
$623,334
The Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA · 2024
General support
$619,333
Penn State · University Park, PA · 2022
General support
$615,000
The Thacher School · Ojai, CA · 2023
General support
$613,500
Wellesley College · Wellesley Hills, MA · 2023
General support
$605,000
World Vision · Federal Way, WA · 2024
General support
$601,200
International Medical Corps · Pasadena, WY · 2022
Support for ukraine
$600,000
The Global Orphan Project · Kansas City, MO · 2024
General support
$600,000
Tisch Multiple Sclerosis Research Center of New York · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$600,000
Lacma Museum Associates · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
General support
$600,000
Ronald McDonald House Charities of San Diego · San Diego, CA · 2022
General support

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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.