The Bamford Foundation
EIN 91-1504193 · files IRS 990-PF
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 461 grants · $9.2m
Who it funds most
85 of its 146 grantees were funded in more than one year.
The Bamford Foundation's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 40 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990PF Part VIII, tax year 2024, filing 202521919349100117
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
A year with no bar has no grants on file yet: its returns may not be loaded. It is not a year without giving.
Its returns8 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | IRS 990-PF | 202611779349100106 | IRS batch file |
| 2024 | IRS 990-PF | 202521919349100117 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS 990-PF | 202403119349102060 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS 990-PF | 202410829349100136 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS 990-PF | 202332899349101753 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS 990-PF | 202202899349100705 | IRS batch file |
| 2019 | IRS 990-PF | 202132229349101013 | IRS batch file |
| 2017 | IRS 990-PF | 201922599349100537 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
The Bamford Foundation made 841 grants across 2017–2025, totalling $16.1m as filed.
- Grants
- 841
- Total, as filed
- $16.1m
- Years
- 2017–2025
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION (UW-TACOMA) | 7 | $1.4m |
| GREENTRIKE | 6 | $1.0m |
| YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES | 6 | $588.3k |
| MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | 6 | $520.5k |
| FOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT MUSEUM | 7 | $484.6k |
| GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | 6 | $415.0k |
| ASIA PACIFIC CULTURAL CENTER | 7 | $340.2k |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND | 7 | $330.8k |
| UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY | 5 | $321.5k |
| TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE | 7 | $317.8k |
| FOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS | 4 | $299.4k |
| FIRST 5 FUNDAMENTALS | 6 | $256.3k |
| SAFE STREETS CAMPAIGN | 5 | $246.7k |
| DEGREES OF CHANGE | 6 | $239.7k |
| GREATER METRO PARKS FOUNDATION | 5 | $208.8k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 85 | $1.7m |
| 2019 | 107 | $3.1m |
| 2020 | 119 | $3.5m |
| 2021 | 140 | $2.5m |
| 2022 | 95 | $2.0m |
| 2023 | 3 | $35.0k |
| 2024 | 154 | $1.5m |
| 2025 | 138 | $1.7m |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-911504193. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified