Iowa · Private foundation
Bsl Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $56k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 41
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $139k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Bsl Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 33 | $55k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $61k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $64k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $67k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $50k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $66k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $72k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $75k | 21% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Puppy Jake Foundation | $31,250 | 9 | 1% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Freedomworks Foundation Inc | $22,500 | 2 | 0% |
| America's Family Coaches Inc | $18,500 | 9 | 2% |
| University of Jamestown | $14,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House | $13,150 | 9 | 0% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $12,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Food for the Poor Inc | $12,400 | 8 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $10,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Blank Park Zoo Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 52 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($310k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bsl Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · The Sherwood Foundation · R & R Realty Group Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Bsl Foundation
- How much does Bsl Foundation give?
- Bsl Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $56,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bsl Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (15%), Education (8%), Animals (7%).
- Who are Bsl Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Puppy Jake Foundation ($31k), Samaritan's Purse ($25k), Freedomworks Foundation Inc ($23k).
- Does Bsl Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bsl Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bsl Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation, The Lozier Foundation.
- Where is Bsl Foundation based?
- Bsl Foundation is based in IA.
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