Texas · Private foundation
Bearden Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $135k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 31
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Bearden Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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 | 34 | $133k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $119k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $137k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $157k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $132k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $146k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $136k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camp For All Foundation | $80,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Razorback Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Bowdoin College | $33,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Dartmouth Inc | $24,138 | 4 | 5% |
| St Edwards University | $19,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Fort Smith Boys & Girls Clubs | $17,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Sam Houston State University | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Beloved and Beyond | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camp For All Foundation | $80,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Razorback Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Bowdoin College | $33,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Dartmouth Inc | $24,138 | 4 | 5% |
| St Edwards University | $19,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Fort Smith Boys & Girls Clubs | $17,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Sam Houston State University | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Beloved and Beyond | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Texas Apartment Association Education Foundation | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Houston | $10,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Lone Star College System | $9,693 | 3 | n/a |
| St Mary's University | $8,800 | 2 | 0% |
| South Africa Partners Inc | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Houston Apartment Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Beablake Foundation | $4,250 | 2 | 1% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Rocksprings Edwards County Volunteer Fire Department | $450 | 4 | 0% |
| Sutton County Health Foundation | $400 | 4 | 0% |
| Edward County Emergency Medical Service Inc | $400 | 2 | 0% |
| Rockport-Fulton Good Samarinc | $200 | 2 | 0% |
| Lamar Volunteer Fire Department Inc | $150 | 3 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($625k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bearden Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Bearden Foundation
- How much does Bearden Foundation give?
- Bearden Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $135,480 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 31 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Bearden Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (74%), Youth Development (9%), Recreation & Sports (7%).
- Who are Bearden Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Camp For All Foundation ($80k), Razorback Foundation Inc ($45k), Bowdoin College ($33k).
- Does Bearden Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bearden Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bearden Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Bearden Foundation based?
- Bearden Foundation is based in TX.
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