How much does Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation give?

Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation reported 79 grants totaling $2,000,625 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 80 and 108 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Human Services (12%), Religion (10%).

Who are Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: St Marys Academy ($945k), Lasalle Catholic College Preparatory Inc ($453k), Catholic Charities ($425k).

Does Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation, Juan Young Trust.

Where is Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation based?

Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation is based in OR.

Foundation Dossiers

Oregon · Private foundation

Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 79
Grants FY2025: 81
Organizations funded FY2024: 16%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $140,000
Organizations funded a year: 80 to 108; FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 6
Total assets, FY2025: $39M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentReligionPhilanthropyOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	79	$2.0M	6%
FY2024	81	$1.7M	16%
FY2023	80	$1.8M	9%
FY2022	90	$1.9M	22%
FY2021	97	$1.7M	10%
FY2020	103	$1.6M	14%
FY2019	108	$1.8M	n/a

97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$6.1MHuman Services$1.5MReligion$1.2MHealth$918kFood & Nutrition$825kHousing & Shelter$755kYouth Development$480kInternational$214kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
St Marys Academy	$945,115	7	n/a
Lasalle Catholic College Preparatory Inc	$452,600	7	n/a
Catholic Charities	$425,000	7	n/a
St Andrew Nativity School	$403,750	7	n/a
De la Salle North Catholic High School	$377,750	7	n/a
Blanchet House of Hospitality	$350,400	7	2%
Oregon Food Bank	$340,000	7	0%
Project Lemonade Inc	$267,900	7	9%
Rose Haven Cic	$252,500	7	2%
Northwest Childrens Outreach	$250,000	7	2%

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All grantees of Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
St Marys Academy	$945,115	7	n/a
Lasalle Catholic College Preparatory Inc	$452,600	7	n/a
Catholic Charities	$425,000	7	n/a
St Andrew Nativity School	$403,750	7	n/a
De la Salle North Catholic High School	$377,750	7	n/a
Blanchet House of Hospitality	$350,400	7	2%
Oregon Food Bank	$340,000	7	0%
Project Lemonade Inc	$267,900	7	9%
Rose Haven Cic	$252,500	7	2%
Northwest Childrens Outreach	$250,000	7	2%
Society of St Vincent de Paul of Portland Oregon	$225,000	3	1%
Oregon Community Warehouse Inc	$210,000	7	1%
Parker Bounds Johnson Foundation	$208,955	6	24%
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College	$175,000	3	0%
Mariposa DR Foundation	$168,000	7	4%
Northwest Pilot Project	$145,000	7	1%
Corporation of Gonzaga University	$142,000	4	0%
Store to Door	$130,000	7	2%
Portland Rescue Mission	$130,000	5	n/a
Holy Redeemer Catholic School	$117,000	7	n/a
Catholic Youth Organization	$115,000	5	2%
Meals on Wheels People Inc	$115,000	7	0%
Children's Cancer Association	$110,300	7	1%
Macdonald Center	$100,000	7	0%
Raphael House of Portland	$95,000	7	0%
Serenity Lane Health Services	$95,000	5	1%
The Northwest Catholic Counseling Center	$95,000	7	1%
Tarahumara Childrens Hospital Fund	$95,000	7	12%
Texas Christian University	$84,500	4	0%
Regis St Mary Catholic School	$80,000	4	n/a
Edison High School	$70,000	7	0%
Whittier College	$67,000	3	0%
University of Portland	$65,000	2	0%
Our Lady of Lourdes	$55,000	3	n/a
Mother & Child Education Center	$47,000	7	3%
Central City Concern	$45,000	7	0%
St Rose School	$45,000	5	n/a
Lewis & Clark College	$42,600	5	0%
Transition Projects Inc	$40,000	7	0%
Safety Compass	$36,500	2	1%
Casa Franciscana Outreach	$35,150	7	n/a
The Haitian Project Inc	$35,000	7	0%
Northwest Family Services	$35,000	7	0%
University of Washington	$35,000	1	n/a
Harrington Health Clinic	$35,000	2	n/a
Big Brothers Big Sisters Columbia Northw	$32,500	6	1%
Casa for Children Inc	$32,000	7	0%
New Narrative	$30,370	7	0%
LArche Portland	$30,000	7	0%
Catholic Broadcasting Northwest Inc dba Mater Dei Radio	$30,000	2	2%
Janus Youth Programs Inc	$30,000	6	0%
Union Gospel Mission	$29,000	7	n/a
Wheel to Walk Foundation	$27,000	6	3%
Quadriplegics United Against Dependency Inc	$25,000	4	0%
Grace Bible Church Maui	$25,000	1	n/a
Sacred Heart Catholic School	$25,000	1	n/a
Casa Teresa Inc	$24,000	1	1%
St Mary's Home	$20,000	4	0%
Lifeworks Nw	$20,000	2	0%
Lift Urban Portland	$20,000	2	1%
St Anthonys School	$20,000	2	n/a
Schoolhouse Supplies Inc	$17,000	3	0%
Nami Multnomah	$16,000	7	0%
The Portland Playhouse	$15,500	6	0%
The Park Academy	$15,000	3	0%
Music Workshop	$15,000	2	4%
ALS Northwest	$15,000	3	1%
Providence Children's Health Foundation	$15,000	1	1%
Dress for Success Oregon	$15,000	3	1%
Gearhart Volunteer Fire Department	$13,000	5	2%
Sisters of the Road Inc	$12,500	3	0%
Angels Landing Foundation	$12,000	3	n/a
KNOM Radio Mission Inc	$12,000	3	0%
Setpath	$10,000	1	1%
St Patrick Catholic Church	$10,000	2	n/a
Hannah Grace Hannah Grace Family	$10,000	1	8%
St Andre Bessette Catholic Church Portland Oregon	$10,000	1	n/a
Oregon Symphony Association	$10,000	1	0%
Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest	$9,500	4	0%
Jesuit High School	$9,300	2	n/a
Fora Health Inc	$7,500	3	0%
Fr Bernard Youth Center Inc	$7,000	4	1%
Assistance League of Corvallis Inc	$7,000	2	2%
Northwest Kidney Kids Inc	$6,000	4	1%
Medical Teams International	$6,000	2	0%
Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc	$6,000	2	0%
The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization	$5,000	1	0%
Youth Empowerment Project Pnw	$5,000	1	3%
Oregon Trail of Hope	$5,000	1	0%
Project Never Again	$5,000	1	n/a
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention	$3,175	1	0%
Northwest Association for Blind Athletes	$3,000	2	0%
Nami Southwest Washington	$2,500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 84 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.5M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 71.

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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.

OCF Joseph E Weston Public FoundationOR96.6× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Juan Young Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Clark Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · The Holzman Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Wheeler Foundation · The Reser Family 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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About Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation

How much does Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation give?: Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation reported 79 grants totaling $2,000,625 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 80 and 108 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Human Services (12%), Religion (10%).
Who are Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: St Marys Academy ($945k), Lasalle Catholic College Preparatory Inc ($453k), Catholic Charities ($425k).
Does Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation, Juan Young Trust.
Where is Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation based?: Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation is based in OR.