California · Private foundation
Ben H and Gladys Arkelian Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $137k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $32,975
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Ben H and Gladys Arkelian Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 25 | $137k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $130k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $115k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $112k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $104k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $121k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $138k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $139k | 34% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bethany Services Inc | $161,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Valley Children's Hospital | $45,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Coyote Club | $40,000 | 8 | 23% |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Global Family Care Network Inc | $19,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Christian Youth Film Society Inc | $13,000 | 3 | 6% |
| The Cat People Inc | $8,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc | $7,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Bakersfield Crisis Pregnancy Center | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Child Guidance Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($749k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ben H and Gladys Arkelian 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.
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How this is measured
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About Ben H and Gladys Arkelian Foundation
- How much does Ben H and Gladys Arkelian Foundation give?
- Ben H and Gladys Arkelian Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $136,639 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ben H and Gladys Arkelian Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (15%), Youth Development (13%), Health (10%).
- Who are Ben H and Gladys Arkelian Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bethany Services Inc ($161k), Valley Children's Hospital ($45k), Coyote Club ($40k).
- Does Ben H and Gladys Arkelian Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ben H and Gladys Arkelian Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ben H and Gladys Arkelian Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Harry and Ethel West Foundation, Kern Community Foundation, The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation.
- Where is Ben H and Gladys Arkelian Foundation based?
- Ben H and Gladys Arkelian Foundation is based in CA.
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