California · Nonprofit
BHFA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
BHFA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,500 to it, the largest being RJA FOUNDATION ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BHFA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,771 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,771 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Wynn Resorts Foundationshared funders
- Kobor Family Foundationportfolio match
- The Donald T Sterling Charitable Foundationportfolio 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.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
86% of BHFA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $10k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BHFA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC’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
BHFA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
96% of BHFA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
- Wynn Resorts Foundationshared fundersNV · backs 27 organizations that share your funders
- Kobor Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Donald T Sterling Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Montecito Firefighters Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Firefighters Charities Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wm Craig and Teneen L Dobbs Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Louis P Ciminelli Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Waterhouse Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Desantis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Will and Bailee Byler Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tigger Stavola Foundationportfolio 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 BHFA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Beverly Hills Firemen's Relief Fund · exempt
- Beverly Hills Fire Association Medical Benefit Plan · exempt
- Beverly Hills Firemens Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BHFA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: 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 BHFA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC?
- BHFA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,500 to it, the largest being RJA FOUNDATION ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BHFA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $73,500 in grants to BHFA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BHFA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC?
- RJA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BHFA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 4funders 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