Minnesota · Private foundation
Bend Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $362k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $136,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 32
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Bend Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 4 | $362k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $742k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $819k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $582k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $368k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $352k | 78% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $409k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $304k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Desert Museum | $680,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Oregon State University Foundation | $510,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Art in Public Places Inc | $326,500 | 4 | 50% |
| Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc Dba - the Environmental Center | $166,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Partners in Care | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Bend Science Station | $100,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Bethlehem Inn | $100,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Central Oregon Community College Foundation | $59,900 | 7 | 1% |
| Cascade School of Music | $54,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Tower Theatre Foundation Inc | $53,650 | 2 | 3% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bend Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 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: The Roundhouse Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Anjulicia Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · United Way of Deschutes County · St Charles Health System Inc · Helen M Clabough Charitable Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About Bend Foundation
- How much does Bend Foundation give?
- Bend Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $361,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Bend Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Education (18%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
- Who are Bend Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: High Desert Museum ($680k), Oregon State University Foundation ($510k), Art in Public Places Inc ($327k).
- Does Bend Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bend Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bend Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Roundhouse Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation, Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund.
- Where is Bend Foundation based?
- Bend Foundation is based in MN.
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