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Bourns Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$77k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$1.0MEducation$449kHealth$51kYouth Development$22kScience & Tech$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kCivil Rights$3k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$58k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAVALRY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$25,754
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP$15,000
RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION$10,000
LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY$5,142
RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION$5,000
RIVERSIDE STEM ACADEMY FOUNDATION$5,000
OAK VALLEY COLLEGE$5,000
RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION$3,877
THE UC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LUCILLE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $51k → 8%MARINERS ELEMENTARY PTA: $2k → 10%LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER REDLANDS-RIVERSIDE: $5k → 14%PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $73k → 14%UC IRVINE FOUNDATION: $51k → 10%LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY: $6k → 11%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER REDLANDS-RIVERSIDE: $2k → 14%CAVALRY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $26k → 14%LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%OAK VALLEY COLLEGE: $5k → 14%CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $51k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $5k → 14%CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $51k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $5k → 14%CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $5k → 14%CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $5k → 14%RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $214k → 11%RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $213k → 11%RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $200k → 11%RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $200k → 11%RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $169k → 11%THE UC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDAT: $10k → 11%RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%INLAND EMPIRE WATERKEEPER: $3k → 11%UC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION: $92k → 11%THE UC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%COMPUTER SCIENCE YOUTH OF ORGANIZATION: $2k → 11%MARTIN LUTHER KING HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 11%THE TOM WATHEN CENTER: $1k → 11%ROGO MINISTRIES: $10k → 11%RIVERSIDE STEM ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS RIVERSIDE COUNTY: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 8 repeat orgs$252k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$1.3M
$201k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
0%

Still filing today

88%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsHealthPublic Safety & DisasterScience & TechPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RC
    RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +394% · 86% of their budget
  • CB
    CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2024 · $111k · revenue +51%
  • RC
    RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2025 · $25k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • PU
    PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $73k · revenue +7%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $51k · revenue +84%
  • LP
    LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH
    one grant, 2024 · $51k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
2
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
3
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
4
Associated Students University of California Riverside

To serve as the student government body at the university of california, riverside.

Education
5
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
6
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
7
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
8
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
9
Saint Mary's College of California

Saint mary's college of california invites you to passionately embrace knowledge, the challenges of scholarship, and the capacity to make lasting change in the world. the foundation for this is our mission. to probe deeply the mystery of…

Education
10
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
11
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
12
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc Riverside Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Tom Wathen Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
6/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $1,020,000 · Recreation & SportsRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATIONCALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $111,433 · EducationCALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSIT…UC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION: $104,691 · EducationUC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATIONPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $72,529 · EducationPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $50,675 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRV…La Sierra University: $21,204 · EducationLa Sierra UniversityUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $20,000 · Education+2 more: $10,000 · EducationCAVALRY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $25,754 · OtherRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherROGO MINISTRIES: $10,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER REDLA RIVERSIDE: $7,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS RIVERSIDE COUNTY: $5,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CA IE COUNCIL: $5,000 · OtherMARTIN LUTHER KING HIGH SCHOOL: $3,000 · Other+3 more: $6,000 · OtherLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $50,665 · HealthScience and Technology Educ Partnership: $15,000 · Science & TechRIVERSIDE CITY FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Public Safety & DisasterThe Tom Wathen Center: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Recreation & Sports$1,020,000Education$390,532Other$86,754Health$50,665Science & Tech$15,000Public Safety & Disaster$2,000Philanthropy$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $1,020,000 over 6y, 86% of budgetCALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $111,433 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION: $104,691 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $72,529 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $50,675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $50,665 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLa Sierra University: $21,204 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetScience and Technology Educ Partnership: $15,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER REDLA RIVERSIDE: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOAK VALLEY COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRIVERSIDE CITY FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Tom Wathen Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Inland Empire Communi…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Inland Empire Community FoundationCA17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bourns Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bourns Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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    The regranting layer
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    The endowment market
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    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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