California · Private foundation
Bartman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $550k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 72
- Grants FY2025
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 64 to 81
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Bartman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 68 | $498k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 64 | $456k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 67 | $468k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 65 | $454k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 64 | $454k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 81 | $478k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 74 | $449k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 74 | $432k | 11% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Library Foundation of Los Angeles | $495,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Prostate Cancer Foundation | $220,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Concern Foundation | $180,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The V Foundation | $172,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Homeboy Industries | $164,500 | 9 | 0% |
| California Institute of the Arts | $125,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $124,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Semper Fi & America's Fund | $115,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $106,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Remote Area Medical | $100,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 85 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($841k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bartman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 81 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Sempra Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Bartman Foundation
- How much does Bartman Foundation give?
- Bartman Foundation reported 72 grants totaling $550,105 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 64 and 81 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bartman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (32%), Education (22%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Bartman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Library Foundation of Los Angeles ($495k), Prostate Cancer Foundation ($220k), Concern Foundation ($180k).
- Does Bartman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bartman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bartman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Weingart Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles.
- Where is Bartman Foundation based?
- Bartman Foundation is based in CA.
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