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Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$97k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2026
16
Organizations funded FY2025
13%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 20
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
1
Total assets, FY2026
$1.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 13% of the organizations Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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
FY2026still arriving15$97k20%
FY202516$92k13%
FY202415$87k13%
FY202314$80k14%
FY202220$93k10%
FY202117$83k24%
FY202017$84k41%
FY201918$84k39%
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.

Human Services$135kEducation$134kArts & Culture$130kCommunity Improvement$120kFood & Nutrition$98kHealth$90kPublic Safety & Disaster$28kYouth Development$28kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 18 grantees
All grantees of Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Blue Mountain Action Council$97,500100%
Fort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society$40,000101%
Trilogy Recovery Community$40,00092%
Christian Aid Center$30,0004n/a
Lillie Rice Center$22,00061%
United Way of the Blue Mountains$18,50040%
Junior Achievement of Washington$12,50050%
Walla Walla Symphony Society Inc$10,00040%
Community Council$10,0001n/a
Walla Walla Summer Theater Group$10,0001n/a
Childrens Museum of Walla Walla$6,00018%
Helpline$5,00011%
Childrens Home Society of Washington$5,00020%
Hope Street$5,00013%
Little Theatre of Walla Walla$5,00012%
Valley Residential Services$4,00020%
Carnegie Picture Lab$2,00021%
Walla Walla Public Schools$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($537k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBlue Mountain Action Council: $97,500 over 10y, 0.3% of budgetFort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society: $40,000 over 10y, 1.3% of budgetTrilogy Recovery Community: $40,000 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetLillie Rice Center: $22,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetUnited Way of the Blue Mountains: $18,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJunior Achievement of Washington: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWalla Walla Symphony Society Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetChildrens Museum of Walla Walla: $6,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetHelpline: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetChildrens Home Society of Washington: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHope Street: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetLittle Theatre of Walla Walla: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetValley Residential Services: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Picture Lab: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% 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 14.

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.

Blue Mountain Community FoundationWA41× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Mountain Community Foundation · Mary Garner Esary Trust · Clara and Art Bald Trust · Sherwood Trust · Estate of Joseph L Stubblefield · Yancey P Winans Testamentary Trust · George T Welch Testamentary Trust · United Way of the Blue Mountains · The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation · Artsfund · Wells Charitable Trust · Patterson Charitable Foundation

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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How do I get to Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation

How much does Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation give?
Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $97,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Human Services (16%), Education (15%), Arts & Culture (15%).
Who are Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Blue Mountain Action Council ($98k), Fort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society ($40k), Trilogy Recovery Community ($40k).
Does Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Mountain Community Foundation, Mary Garner Esary Trust, Clara and Art Bald Trust.
Where is Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation based?
Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation is based in WA.

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 50 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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