California · Private foundation
The Bilger 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.
- $298k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $61k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations The Bilger Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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 | 9 | $298k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $415k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $435k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $900k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $1.3M | 39% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $424k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $505k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $562k | 44% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Visions Foundation | $1,207,163 | 2 | 7% |
| Skirball Cultural Center | $850,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Israel Emergency Alliance | $675,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Bet Tzedek | $423,750 | 9 | 1% |
| The Rape Foundation | $215,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Milken Institute | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Urban Gateways | $95,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Rett Syndrome Research Trust Inc | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Friends of Elnet | $80,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The reThink Israel Initiative Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bilger 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: California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Liberty Hill Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Bilger Foundation
- How much does The Bilger Foundation give?
- The Bilger Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $297,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bilger Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (38%), International (16%), Crime & Legal (11%).
- Who are The Bilger Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Creative Visions Foundation ($1.2M), Skirball Cultural Center ($850k), Israel Emergency Alliance ($675k).
- Does The Bilger Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bilger 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 Bilger Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Weingart Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.
- Where is The Bilger Foundation based?
- The Bilger Foundation is based in CA.
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