Oregon · Private foundation
Bob Fessler Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $134k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Bob Fessler Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 | $122k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $160k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $148k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $107k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $81k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $91k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $67k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $79k | 64% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Abbey Foundation of Oregon | $141,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Mount Angel Abbey | $115,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Silverton Health Foundation | $82,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Catholic Youth Organization | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Holy Family Academy | $31,160 | 4 | 2% |
| Fr Bernard Youth Center Inc | $27,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Oregon State University Foundation | $24,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Chesterton Academy of the Rogue Valley | $22,500 | 2 | 6% |
| Sonshine Ministries International | $14,700 | 2 | 4% |
| Mt Angel Chamber of Commerce | $13,200 | 7 | 11% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($285k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bob Fessler Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 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.
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How this is measured
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About Bob Fessler Family Foundation
- How much does Bob Fessler Family Foundation give?
- Bob Fessler Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $133,980 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bob Fessler Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (39%), Education (15%), Health (12%).
- Who are Bob Fessler Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Abbey Foundation of Oregon ($141k), Mount Angel Abbey ($115k), Silverton Health Foundation ($83k).
- Does Bob Fessler Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bob Fessler Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bob Fessler Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Salem Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation, Gelco Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Bob Fessler Family Foundation based?
- Bob Fessler Family Foundation is based in OR.
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