· Private foundation
Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k10 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WALLA WALLA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| WALLA WALLA SUMMER THEATER | $10,000 |
| EARLY LEARNING SPEECH AND LANGUAGE | $10,000 |
| WW COMMUNITY COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN AID CENTER | $5,000 |
| SONBRIDGE | $5,000 |
| WW CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LINCOLN HEALTH CENTER | $5,000 |
| POWER HOUSE THEATRE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE BLUE MOUNTAIN | $4,500 |
| CAMP FIRE OF WALLA WALLA | $2,500 |
| AKIN | $2,500 |
| FORT WALLA WALLA MUSEUM | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–26, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2026, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BMBLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL10× · 2017–2026 · $98k · revenue +141%
- FWFort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society10× · 2017–2026 · $40k · revenue +41%
- TRTrilogy Recovery Community9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $8k
- CMCHILDRENS MUSEUM OF WALLA WALLAone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +5%
- HHelplineone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -98%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to provide safe/secure low-barrier shelter and food to any adult in need in the Walla Walla region. Our hope is to build upon this foundation to stabilize people's lives while helping them to become self-sufficient. We do…
The Washington Museum Association was established to represent and serve museums of all types and sizes throughout Washington State
To promote the arts in wallowa county, oregon.
The mission and purpose of the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival (WWCMF) is to promote excellence in the performance of chamber music throughout the greater Walla Walla Valley area, to embody these qualities as members of a greater…
WCSC connects and empowers older adults to live happy, healthy, and engaged lives.
The walla walla valley chamber of commerce is a member-focused organization and community partner that fosters a sustainable, healthy and vibrant economic environment through business promotion, advocacy, education and services.
to provide compassionate care to patients in the final stages of life and support for their loved ones and caregivers.
To celebrate over 150 years of Walla Walla history and the Kirkman family saga through preservation, education, events and exhibits.
Strength in every struggle and hope in every heart.
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Fort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Trilogy Recovery Community ↗
- Who funds Lillie Rice Center ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Walla Walla Symphony Society Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA SUMMER THEATER GROUP ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF WALLA WALLA ↗
- Who funds Helpline ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds HOPE STREET ↗
- Who funds Little Theatre of Walla Walla ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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