1978
Formally incorporated and registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The incorporators are: Enrique Zobel, Jaime L. Cardinal Sin, Alberto F. de Villa-Abrille, J. Antonio Araneta, and Robert Wynn. BPI Foundation serves as a conduit of BPI grants and donations to charitable institutions, schools, disaster victims, and civic organizations.

1981
Registered as a donee-institution with tax-exempt status with the Bureau of Internal Revenue.

1989
 Started new programs:
 •  BPI Science Awards (Annual)
 •  Information Systems Study Plan (ISSP)
 •  Research Grants
 •  Financing Assistance Line for NGOs and cooperatives in microfinance
 •  The first credit line is extended to Tulay sa  Pag-unlad, Inc. (P500,000). This is regarded as the first “wholesale microfinance” project by a private foundation.
 •  Medical missions
 •  Barrio Molino Assistance Program

1990  
Started a College Scholarship Program for 10 BPI dependents each year. Offered to qualified dependents who will pursue science and engineering courses in select universities nationwide.
•  Inked a P500,000-credit line with VICTO  (a network of Visayas-based cooperatives) for wholesale lending.
• Provided assistance for victims of the July 16, 1990 earthquake in Baguio and Dagupan cities.
• Spearheaded massive disaster response for victims of Typhoon “Ruping” in Cebu City with the assistance of the Cebu Archdiocese, the Department of Health in Region VII, and BPI volunteer-employees in Cebu. This involved conducting soup kitchens and medical missions.
• Assisted in forming the Corporate Network for Disaster Response which later becomes raising and establishment of the Foundation for Judicial Excellence (FJE), which provides
incentives for outstanding judges, prosecutors.

1991  
Granted a P300,000-credit line with Ahon sa Hirap, Inc. (the first true replicator of Grameen Banking of Bangladesh as acknowledged by the Grameen Bank).
• Presented its microfinance program in an international forum in Indonesia.
• Ceased its support to research grants program due to a perceived lack of “results.”
• Supported medical missions for the evacuees of the Mt. Pinatubo eruption.
• Became a founding member of the League of Corporate Foundations.

1993
Initiated an employee-volunteer led volunteer program called the Community Relations Program – the first of its kind (if not the first) among corporate foundations.

1995  
Won an Anvil Award for Excellence for its “Banking with the Poor” program.
• Implemented the standard operating procedures on lending with BPI Loans Operations Division.  With nine partner-NGOs and cooperatives availing of the wholesale
lending program under the Financing Assistance Line. 

1997  
Led the “A Flag for Every Public School” project with the Ayala Group of Companies, the League of Corporate Foundations, and the Rotary Clubs.
• Officially merged with Citytrust Foundation, Inc., with BPI Foundation, Inc. retaining its name.

1999  
Launched the “BPI Pays Tribute to Cities and Municipalities,” which won an Anvil Award of Excellence the following year.

1999
Managed the special reunion of Science awardees for the 10th year celebration of the BPI Science Awards.
 
2001  
Sponsored the “Blair & Robertson’s Philippine Islands” CD-ROM production to mark the 150th year of BPI.  Distributed free copies to public schools and national libraries nationwide.
• Managed the Far East Bank Foundation’s Scholarship and Sagip-Talino (OFW dependents scholarships) projects with the merger of BPI and Far East Bank and Trust Company.

2002  
Held the "Art for Heart" auction of artworks, proceeds of which were used for Foundation projects.

2003  
Engaged in a volunteer-build with the Habitat for Humanity Philippines. Gathered almost 100 volunteers to help construct the first Habitat medium-rise building in Taguig.
• Along with BPI employee volunteers, joined for the first time the commemoration of the International Coastal Cleanup Day with a cleanup drive along Roxas Boulevard, Manila.

2004
Launched its employee volunteer program branded as BP “I”  Volunteer.
• Together with the Ayala Group of Companies and in partnership with Habitat Philippines, adopted the Makaturing Neighborhood Association in Mandaluyong City for a comprehensive community development program.  Provided the seed money for the community’s micro businesses.
• Worked with BPI interest clubs in providing employee-volunteers for a one-day seminar/training in sports and skills for dependents of BPI.
• Conducted the first financial and credit literacy program dubbed as “Show Me, Teach Me, SME-Empowering Entrepreneurs.
• Raised funds from BPI employees and mobilized employee-volunteers for relief efforts for the victims of the successive typhoons in Nueva Vizcaya and Quezon. 

2005
Sealed a five-year partnership with the Department of Science and Technology for the scaled-up delivery of the BPI-DOST Science Awards.
• Won Gold Quill Awards on the following: Award of Excellence for the production of the book Infanta-Passage to the Pacific; and Awards of Merit for “Show Me, Teach Me, SME-Empowering Entrepreneurs”, BP”I” Volunteer-Bank’s Employee Volunteerism,  “Solid Waste Management Among the Youth”-BPI Save Mother Earth Club
• Partnered with Manila Water Company in a tree-planting project at the Wawa Watershed, Montalban, Rizal. About 90 volunteers were mobilized.
• BPIFI spun off from BPI Corporate Communications but remained to be under the Office of the BPI President. Created a new organization independent from BPI Corporate Communications.

2006
Forged a two-year partnership with the Ateneo Development Studies for the capacity- building program of microfinance institutions, which includes staff training and strengthening of  organization’s operations.
• Engaged the Rural Bankers Associations of the Philippines (RBAP) as partner to provide microfinance operations training for rural bank officers and staff, and deliver enhancements to
their microfinance information systems through the Microenterprise Access to Banking Services (MABS) program. MABS is a joint project of RBAP and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
• Organized and oversaw the  “1 + 55: Perspectives on Corporate Art Patronage,”  BPI’s 155th anniversary exhibit with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila (the first joint exhibit of BSP with a private bank).