California · Private foundation
Bley Stein 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.
- $701k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $120,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 31
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Bley Stein Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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 | 28 | $611k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $537k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $492k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $537k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $485k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $343k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anti-Defamation League | $435,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Jewish Committee | $275,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Skirball Cultural Center | $245,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra | $160,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $85,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chabad of Burbank | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Israel Emergency Alliance | $4,000 | 5 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anti-Defamation League | $435,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Jewish Committee | $275,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Skirball Cultural Center | $245,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra | $160,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $85,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chabad of Burbank | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Israel Emergency Alliance | $4,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Mission Inc | $4,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Midnight Mission | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Physicians Aid Association | $2,850 | 6 | 0% |
| Heal the Bay | $2,300 | 5 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Philharmonic Association | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous Inc | $1,750 | 5 | 0% |
| African Wildlife Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Museum Associates | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Sigma Alpha Mu Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra | $500 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bley Stein 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
About Bley Stein Foundation
- How much does Bley Stein Foundation give?
- Bley Stein Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $700,650 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Bley Stein Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (37%), Civil Rights (22%), Science & Tech (11%).
- Who are Bley Stein Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Anti-Defamation League ($435k), American Jewish Committee ($275k), Skirball Cultural Center ($245k).
- Does Bley Stein Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bley Stein 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 Bley Stein Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Bley Stein Foundation based?
- Bley Stein Foundation is based in CA.
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