Ohio · Private foundation
Bfk Foundation Inc
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.
- $45k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 40
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $318k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Bfk Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 | 38 | $43k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $44k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $39k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $38k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $63k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $44k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $43k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $37k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green Energy Ohio | $18,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Licking Land Trust | $16,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Michigan Enviromental Council | $14,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Food Gatherers | $14,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish Social Service Agency | $14,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr | $13,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Freedom for Immigrants | $12,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Assoc | $11,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Indigenous Environmental Network | $10,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($69k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bfk Foundation Inc 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: Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · United States Energy Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Energy Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Clif Family Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Wallace Global Fund II · Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc
How this is measured
About Bfk Foundation Inc
- How much does Bfk Foundation Inc give?
- Bfk Foundation Inc reported 40 grants totaling $45,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bfk Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (32%), Civil Rights (14%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Bfk Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Green Energy Ohio ($18k), Licking Land Trust ($16k), Michigan Enviromental Council ($14k).
- Does Bfk Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bfk Foundation Inc 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 Bfk Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Impactassetsinc, Tides Foundation, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Bfk Foundation Inc based?
- Bfk Foundation Inc is based in OH.
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