Minnesota · Nonprofit
BAME FOUNDATION
BAME FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,735 to it, the largest being THE OAKFISH FOUNDATION ($75,302). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BAME FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Constellation Fundshared funderslocal
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio match
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $14k → $19k.
From the IRS filings of BAME FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BAME FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 72% · 2022 61% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of BAME FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 368 organizations that share them.
- The Constellation Fundshared funderslocalMN · backs 28 organizations that share your funders · funds 41 organizations near you
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sheltering Arms Foundationshared funderslocalMN · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 65 organizations near you
- Cargill Foundationshared funderslocalMN · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · funds 54 organizations near you
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Youredjian Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anchorage Alumni Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Boule Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Galadjian Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anderson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Elsa Miller Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BAME FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BAME FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BAME FOUNDATION?
- BAME FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,735 to it, the largest being THE OAKFISH FOUNDATION ($75,302). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BAME FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $93,735 in grants to BAME FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BAME FOUNDATION?
- THE OAKFISH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,302 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BAME FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing