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Bert B Malough 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.

$11k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$500
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,250
Organizations funded a year
9 to 13
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$207k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Bert B Malough Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$11k23%
FY202412$8k8%
FY202313$7k15%
FY20229$5k33%
FY202110$16kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$8kReligion$8kScience & Tech$6kEducation$6kPublic Benefit$1kPhilanthropy$1kHuman Services$775Public Safety & Disaster$500Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
California Science Center Foundation$6,00040%
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles$4,10020%
The John Thomas Dye School$1,40050%
Harvard-Westlake School$1,40050%
Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge$1,35040%
Chapman University$1,05010%
California Masonic Foundation$1,04240%
Benjamin Franklin Elementary Foundation$1,00020%
Presbyterian Church$6002n/a
The Salvation Army$5001n/a
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All grantees of Bert B Malough Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
California Science Center Foundation$6,00040%
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles$4,10020%
The John Thomas Dye School$1,40050%
Harvard-Westlake School$1,40050%
Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge$1,35040%
Chapman University$1,05010%
California Masonic Foundation$1,04240%
Benjamin Franklin Elementary Foundation$1,00020%
Presbyterian Church$6002n/a
The Salvation Army$5001n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$50010%
The Natural History Museum Santa Maria California$37440%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($28k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bert B Malough Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCalifornia Science Center Foundation: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCenter Theatre Group of Los Angeles: $4,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe John Thomas Dye School: $1,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHarvard-Westlake School: $1,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFreedoms Foundation at Valley Forge: $1,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChapman University: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Masonic Foundation: $1,042 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBenjamin Franklin Elementary Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Natural History Museum Santa Maria California: $374 over 4y, 0.3% of budget

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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 10.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Bert B Malough Foundation

How much does Bert B Malough Foundation give?
Bert B Malough Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $11,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 13 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Bert B Malough Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (17%), Religion (16%), Science & Tech (13%).
Who are Bert B Malough Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: California Science Center Foundation ($6k), Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles ($4k), The John Thomas Dye School ($1k).
Does Bert B Malough Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bert B Malough 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 Bert B Malough Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Bert B Malough Foundation based?
Bert B Malough Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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