Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund C/O Bny Mellon Na
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About Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund C/O Bny Mellon Na
The Fund provides a donor-advised fund allowing donors to establish individual donor-advised accounts to manage charitable donations, offering simplicity, administrative convenience and flexibility while donors retain advisory privileges over distributions and investments.
Funding Style
general operating supportunrestricted supportprogrammatic/organizational purpose
About Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund C/O Bny Mellon Na
A single 2025 transfer of $619,798,574 to Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc is the clearest signal of how Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund C/o Bny Mellon Na operates: as a donor-advised fund program moving very large sums to other charitable intermediaries and operating charities. The fund’s recent filings show repeated support for organizations that further their exempt purpose, with additional sizable transfers to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund. That pattern fits its structure as a bank DAF program, where donors retain advisory privileges over distributions and investments while the fund handles administration. The grant record is broad rather than narrowly thematic, but it is not random: universities, schools, faith-based institutions, community foundations, museums, and national charitable intermediaries all appear in the recent grant list. Grants in the dataset range from seven-figure awards to recurring eight- and nine-figure transfers, showing a vehicle used for both large institutional giving and many smaller donor-directed gifts. The fund’s public purpose description emphasizes simplicity, administrative convenience, and flexibility for donor accounts.
What Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund C/O Bny Mellon Na Funds
Education and scholarship-related institutions appear multiple times in the recent grants list. Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund C/o Bny Mellon Na gave $6,514,866 to Trustees of Dartmouth College, $5,700,500 to Stanford University, $2,500,000 to Tampa Preparatory School Inc, and $1,685,000 to Abilene Christian University, each to further exempt purpose. Faith-based organizations also receive substantial support. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints received $16,022,140 in 2023, $5,604,989 in 2024, and $2,346,000 in 2025, while Central Baptist Church received $1,200,000 in 2024. The arts and culture sector is present as well, including $2,000,000 to Museum of Arts and Design and $1,121,500 to Venetian Heritage Inc. Community-serving organizations and civic philanthropy also show up, such as Chicago Community Foundation and Opportunity Village Foundation, indicating that the fund routes donor-advised grants across several public-benefit categories.
How Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund C/O Bny Mellon Na Gives
Typical grant size in the observed data is $10,000 at the 25th percentile, $17,500 at the median, and $40,084 at the 75th percentile. The distribution is highly skewed by a handful of very large transfers, including a single nine-figure grant and several multimillion-dollar grants. Recipients recur across years: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, National Philanthropic Trust, Schwab Charitable Fund, and National Christian Charitable Foundation Inc all appear more than once. The foundation is a bank donor-advised fund program, and the public description says donors retain advisory privileges over distributions and investments. Grants are made for general operating, unrestricted, or organizational purposes rather than narrowly specified projects.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$915M
Total Assets
$2M
Total Revenue
$284.9M
Total Expenses
$729.3M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $40K, with a median of $18K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$18K
75th Percentile
$40K
Geographic Reach
National49 states funded
About 12% of grants go to recipients in VA.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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