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Bedrossian Foundation

Vancouver, WA · EIN 83-6927111. Reported 64 grants totalling $879,878 to 22 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$12,550median grant
$879,878granted, 2021-2024
22organizations funded
88%of grantees funded again the next year
$4,901,360assets, 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. Bedrossian Foundation 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 $12,550. Half of everything it gave fell between $12,550 and $13,700; the smallest was $12,408 and the largest $31,100. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$10,000 - $25,000
63 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
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
Oregon Health & Science University FoundationPortland, OR$69,758442024
Cdm Caregiving ServicesVancouver, WA$54,208442024
Children's CenterVancouver, WA$54,208442024
First Presbyterian ChurchVancouver, WA$54,208442024
Fish of VancouverVancouver, WA$54,208442024
Impact NwPortland, OR$54,208442024
Meals on Wheels PeoplePortland, OR$54,208442024
Nw Association for Blind AthletesVancouver, WA$54,208442024
Research to Prevent BlindnessPhiladelphia, PA$54,208442024
Rotary Foundation of VancouverVancouver, WA$54,208442024
The Corporation of Haverford CollegeHaverford, PA$54,208442024
Temple University-Katz School of MedicinePhiladelphia, PA$41,658332023
YWCA of Clark CountyVancouver, WA$41,658332023
Salvation Army Vancouver CorpsVancouver, WA$27,958222022
Share Inc Attndiane Mcwithey DirVancouver, WA$27,958222022
Doernbecher Children's Hospital FoundationPortland, OR$26,250222024
Share Inc Attnamy ReynoldsdirectorVancouver, WA$26,250222024
The Salvation Army - Vancouver Corps Attn Estates Managerpo Box 9219 - 111Seattle, WA$26,250222024
Free Clinic of Southwest Washington Attn Pam KnepperVancouver, WA$12,550112024
Temple University-Katz School of MedicineNew York, NY$12,550112024
YWCA of Clark County Attn Vanessa Yarie CooVancouver, WA$12,550112024
Free Clinic of Southwest WashingtonVancouver, WA$12,408112021

18 of 22 (82%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 88%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 25 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
15 grants
Education
5 grants
Food & Nutrition
4 grants
Health Care
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202116$198,528$12,408
202215$248,800$15,550
202316$219,200$13,700
202417$213,350$12,550

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. 58% of this one's giving went to organizations in Washington. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Washington
$513K
Oregon
$204K
Pennsylvania
$150K
New York
$13K

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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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc11 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc9 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program8 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc7 shared recipientsThe Firstenburg Foundation7 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $12,550. 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 Washington.
  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 Bedrossian Foundation'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: 900 Washington Street Suite 900, Vancouver, WA, 98660. 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 83-6927111 · 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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