How much does BCM Foundation give?

BCM Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $3,198,975 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 40 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does BCM Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (21%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Arts & Culture (15%).

Who are BCM Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Interfaith Food Center ($1.2M), Los Angeles Regional Food Bank ($925k), Whittier Public Library Foundation ($653k).

Does BCM Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does BCM Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as BCM Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rose Hills Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.

Foundation Dossiers

California · Private foundation

BCM Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 40
Grants FY2024: 38
Organizations funded FY2023: 11%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $40,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $946,950
Organizations funded a year: 34 to 40; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $55M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations BCM Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthScience & TechAnimalsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	40	$3.2M	18%
FY2023	38	$2.9M	11%
FY2022	34	$3.2M	3%
FY2021	40	$2.8M	50%
FY2020	34	$2.4M	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Youth Development$3.1MFood & Nutrition$2.4MArts & Culture$2.2MCommunity Improvement$2.0MEducation$1.6MHealth$870kHuman Services$695kCrime & Legal$650kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Interfaith Food Center	$1,229,000	5	27%
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank	$925,000	5	0%
Whittier Public Library Foundation	$652,500	2	42%
Casa of Los Angeles	$500,000	5	2%
United Peace Officers Against Crime	$450,000	4	66%
The Library Foundation of Los Angeles	$425,000	4	1%
The Natural History Museum Santa Maria California	$360,000	5	n/a
United Friends of the Children	$350,000	3	2%
Rancho Los Amigos Foundation Inc	$290,000	3	12%
Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation	$285,000	4	4%

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All grantees of BCM Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Interfaith Food Center	$1,229,000	5	27%
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank	$925,000	5	0%
Whittier Public Library Foundation	$652,500	2	42%
Casa of Los Angeles	$500,000	5	2%
United Peace Officers Against Crime	$450,000	4	66%
The Library Foundation of Los Angeles	$425,000	4	1%
The Natural History Museum Santa Maria California	$360,000	5	n/a
United Friends of the Children	$350,000	3	2%
Rancho Los Amigos Foundation Inc	$290,000	3	12%
Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation	$285,000	4	4%
Kidspace a Participatory Museum	$275,000	4	3%
World Youth Clubs Inc	$255,000	5	6%
Boys and Girls Club of Whittier Inc	$250,000	1	6%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California	$220,000	5	0%
Helpline Youth Counseling Inc	$200,000	3	1%
Puente Learning Center	$195,000	5	1%
Food Finders Inc	$185,000	5	0%
The Whole Child - Mental Health & Housing Services	$175,000	2	0%
A Place Called Home	$155,000	5	1%
Whittier Historical Society	$147,000	3	54%
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society Inc	$140,000	5	1%
Los Angeles Music and Art School	$125,000	5	3%
The Ryman-Carroll Foundation	$120,000	5	3%
Chorale Bel Canto	$118,105	5	34%
SPIRITT Family Services	$105,000	3	0%
Mount Saint Mary's University	$100,000	4	0%
Friends of the Childrens Museum	$100,000	2	16%
Los Angeles Repertory Theater	$100,000	5	100%
Education Through Music	$95,000	4	n/a
Griffith Observatory Foundation	$80,000	4	1%
Whittier Regional Symphony	$80,000	2	63%
Shoes That Fit	$75,000	4	1%
Jovenes Inc	$75,000	2	1%
Whittier Area Literacy Council	$74,938	3	53%
Foodbank of Southern California	$70,000	3	0%
A Noise Within	$70,000	5	0%
Inner-City Arts	$60,000	3	1%
Southern California Grantmakers	$60,000	1	1%
Social & Emotional Wellness Initiative	$50,000	1	14%
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation	$50,000	1	0%
California Aquatic Therapy & Wellness Center Inc	$40,000	2	2%
Making the Right Connections Inc	$40,000	3	6%
Greater Los Angeles Zoological Association	$30,000	1	0%
California School of the Arts - San Gabriel Valley Foundation	$30,000	1	4%
Al Wooten Jr Youth Center	$25,000	1	2%
Children's Burn Foundation	$25,000	1	1%
Ground Education	$15,000	1	2%
South Coast Botanic Garden Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Boys & Girls Club of San Marcos	$10,000	1	0%
Rio Hondo College Foundation	$9,000	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.0M), not named here.

BCM Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 48.

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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.

The Rose Hills FoundationCA37.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Green Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Employees Community Fund of Boeing California Inc · Sempra Foundation · Stern Sidney Memorial Tuw

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About BCM Foundation

How much does BCM Foundation give?: BCM Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $3,198,975 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 40 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does BCM Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (21%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Arts & Culture (15%).
Who are BCM Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Interfaith Food Center ($1.2M), Los Angeles Regional Food Bank ($925k), Whittier Public Library Foundation ($653k).
Does BCM Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does BCM Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as BCM Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rose Hills Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.
Where is BCM Foundation based?: BCM Foundation is based in CA.