California · Private foundation
Bertha Russ Lytel Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $754k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $13,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $303,100
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Bertha Russ Lytel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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 | 19 | $754k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $768k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $790k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $719k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $726k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $780k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $725k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $677k | 27% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ferndale Museum Inc | $229,955 | 8 | 33% |
| Ld O'Rourke Foundation Inc | $171,512 | 3 | 15% |
| Hospice of Humboldt Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Ferndale Repertory Theatre | $124,000 | 6 | 17% |
| Lost Coast Camp | $112,500 | 8 | 12% |
| St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Humboldt County Fair Association | $91,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Food for People Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ferndale Cemetery Association | $65,000 | 4 | 48% |
| Ferndale Community Chest | $52,500 | 9 | 71% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bertha Russ Lytel Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation · Humboldt Area Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bertha Russ Lytel Foundation
- How much does Bertha Russ Lytel Foundation give?
- Bertha Russ Lytel Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $754,482 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bertha Russ Lytel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (19%), Health (10%), Education (9%).
- Who are Bertha Russ Lytel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ferndale Museum Inc ($230k), Ld O'Rourke Foundation Inc ($172k), Hospice of Humboldt Inc ($150k).
- Does Bertha Russ Lytel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bertha Russ Lytel Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bertha Russ Lytel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation, Humboldt Area Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Bertha Russ Lytel Foundation based?
- Bertha Russ Lytel Foundation is based in CA.
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