FundersNew York

Big Guy Foundation Inc

Mill Neck, NY · EIN 54-2118808. Reported 26 grants totalling $21,820 to 26 organizations across tax years 2022-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$500median grant
$21,820granted, 2022-2024
26organizations funded
$34,435assets, 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. Big Guy Foundation Inc 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 $500. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $1,000; the smallest was $250 and the largest $5,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
18 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
7 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant

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
St Thomas Aquinas CollegeSparkill, NY$5,000112024
Cure PspNew York, NY$1,500112024
Melanoma Research FoundationWashington, DC$1,500112024
Boys Angirl Club of Middle TnNashville, TN$1,000112024
Boys and Girl Club of Middle TennesseeNashville, TN$1,000112022
Dream StreetsNashville, TN$1,000112024
Nazareth HousingNew York, NY$1,000112024
Tuckers HouseFranklin, TN$1,000112024
National Alliance to End HomelessnessWashington, DC$745112022
Education Comes FirstNewton, MA$575112024
American Cancer SocietyHagerstown, MD$500112024
Americans for the ArtsWashington, DC$500112024
Best Christmas EverCloquet, MN$500112024
Best Friends Aniaml SocietyKanab, UT$500112024
Health Well FoundationGermantown, MD$500112024
International Tiger ProjectAustin, TX$500112024
Legal MomentumNew York, NY$500112024
Little Pink Houses of HopeBurlington, NC$500112024
Move Inclusive DanceNashville, TN$500112024
No Kid HungryWashington, DC$500112024
Play on NashvilleBrentwood, TN$500112024
Second Harvest Food BankNashville, TN$500112024
Tennessee Alliance for KidsNashville, TN$500112024
The Life You Can SaveNovato, CA$500112024
GraceworksFranklin, TN$250112024
Hope Clinic for WomenNashville, TN$250112024

0 of 26 (0%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold.

Plus 139 grants to individuals totalling $690,353 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
4 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Housing & Shelter
2 grants
Recreation & Sports
2 grants
Diseases & Disorders
2 grants
Education
1 grant
Arts & Culture
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20222$1,745$872
202424$20,075$500

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. 37% 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
$8K
Tennessee
$6K
District of Columbia
$3K
Maryland
$1K
Massachusetts
$575
North Carolina
$500
Utah
$500
California
$500

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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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $500. 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 Big Guy Foundation Inc'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: Po Box 203, Mill Neck, NY, 11765. 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 54-2118808 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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