California · Private foundation
The Bales Family 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.
- $5k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Bales Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 5 | $5k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $3k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $8k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $7k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $12k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $40k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $49k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $17k | 63% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum | $52,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Frameworks Institute | $16,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Manhattan Beach Chamber of Commerce | $15,200 | 3 | 4% |
| Pitzer College | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mosaic Theater Company of DC | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Solstice Project Inc | $5,750 | 5 | 5% |
| Defy Ventures Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Childrens Center at Caltech | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mississippi Center for Justice | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Rosenwald Park Campaign | $3,500 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 24 grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($58k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bales Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Bales Family Foundation
- How much does The Bales Family Foundation give?
- The Bales Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $5,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bales Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (41%), Education (23%), Health (10%).
- Who are The Bales Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum ($53k), Frameworks Institute ($16k), Manhattan Beach Chamber of Commerce ($15k).
- Does The Bales Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bales Family 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 The Bales Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is The Bales Family Foundation based?
- The Bales Family Foundation is based in CA.
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