California · Private foundation
Bourns Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $77k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,754
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $58k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Bourns Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k 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 | 8 | $77k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $428k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $300k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $209k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $219k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $226k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $107k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside Community Services Foundation | $1,020,000 | 6 | 86% |
| California Baptist University | $111,433 | 3 | 0% |
| Uc Riverside Foundation | $104,691 | 3 | 0% |
| Pepperdine University | $72,529 | 1 | 0% |
| University of California Irvine Foundation | $50,675 | 1 | 0% |
| Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health | $50,665 | 1 | 0% |
| Riverside Community College District Foundation | $25,000 | 3 | 1% |
| La Sierra University | $21,204 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Redlands | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Science and Technology Educ Partnership | $15,000 | 1 | 9% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside Community Services Foundation | $1,020,000 | 6 | 86% |
| California Baptist University | $111,433 | 3 | 0% |
| Uc Riverside Foundation | $104,691 | 3 | 0% |
| Pepperdine University | $72,529 | 1 | 0% |
| University of California Irvine Foundation | $50,675 | 1 | 0% |
| Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health | $50,665 | 1 | 0% |
| Riverside Community College District Foundation | $25,000 | 3 | 1% |
| La Sierra University | $21,204 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Redlands | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Science and Technology Educ Partnership | $15,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Redla Riverside | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Riverside STEM Academy Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oak Valley College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Riverside City Firefighters Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Tom Wathen Center | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($55k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bourns Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 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.
Open a dossier: Inland Empire Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Bourns Foundation
- How much does Bourns Foundation give?
- Bourns Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $76,773 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bourns Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (65%), Education (29%), Health (3%).
- Who are Bourns Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Riverside Community Services Foundation ($1.0M), California Baptist University ($111k), Uc Riverside Foundation ($105k).
- Does Bourns Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bourns Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bourns Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Inland Empire Community Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Bourns Foundation based?
- Bourns Foundation is based in CA.
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