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Bieber Family Foundation

Denver, CO · EIN 41-1679484. Reported 243 grants totalling $1,836,329 to 112 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.

Notold the IRS it takes no unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$1,836,329granted, 2021-2024
112recipients, as named on its returns
44%of grantees funded again the next year
$22.0Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". Bieber Family Foundation checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement. A foundation can give a different answer on a later return, and this page is rebuilt when one is published. The rest of the page is its giving record: who it chose, and which of those make grants themselves.

Organizations it funds that make grants of their own

3 of the organizations Bieber Family Foundation funded make grants themselves, and it reported 5 grants totalling $489,329 to them. That is 33% of the $1,478,329 of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.

All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.

What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.

GrantmakerKindStateReceivedGrantsYearsLastOnly funds organizations it picks?
Donor Advised Charitable Giving Incgrantmaking organizationColorado$439,329112024Its form does not ask
Greater Twin Cities United Wayfederated giving programmeMinnesota$40,000222022Its form does not ask
The New Horizons Foundation Incgrantmaking organizationColorado$10,000222022Its form does not ask

A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $5,750; the smallest was $500 and the largest $439,329.

Under $1,000
7 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
81 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
99 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
47 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
DAFGIVING360Omaha, NE$439,329112024
Hammer ResidencesWayzata, MN$98,000332023
Alight Color Movement El SalvadorMinneapolis, MN$75,000332023
Minnesota Teen ChallengeMinneapolis, MN$62,500332023
Arc of MnSaint Paul, MN$45,000332023
Inner HeroMinneapolis, MN$44,000332023
Greater Twin Cities United WayMinneapolis, MN$40,000222022
Ace ScholarshipsDenver, CO$30,000332023
Aspen InstituteWashington, DC$30,000332023
Delasalle High SchoolMinneapolis, MN$30,000332023
Fraser Community ServicesMinneapolis, MN$30,000332023
Hope AcademyMinneapolis, MN$30,000332023
True FriendsAnnandale, MN$30,000332023
University of Colorado FoundationDenver, CO$30,000332023
Washburn Center for ChildrenMinneapolis, MN$30,000332023
Wayzata Community ChurchWayzata, MN$30,000332023
Heart and Hand CenterDenver, CO$25,000332023
Page Education FoundationMinneapolis, MN$25,000332023
Can-Do-CaninesNew Hope, MN$20,000332023
Center for the American ExperimentGolden Valley, MN$20,000222022
Pacer Center IncMinneapolis, MN$20,000332023
Folds of Honor FoundationWayzata, MN$17,000332023
Ascension SchoolMinneapolis, MN$15,000332023
Dunwoody College of TechnologyMinneapolis, MN$15,000332023
LifeworksEagan, MN$15,000332023
Lutheran Social ServicesMinneapolis, MN$15,000222022
Room to ReadSan Francisco, CA$15,000332023
Special OlympicsMinneapolis, MN$15,000332023
Wallin Education PartnersMinneapolis, MN$14,000332023
Metro Meals on WheelsMinneapolis, MN$13,000332023
Gillette Children's FoundationSaint Paul, MN$12,500332023
Greater Minneapolis Crisis NurseryMinneapolis, MN$12,500332023
Interfaith OutreachPlymouth, MN$12,500332023
Jeremiah ProgramMinneapolis, MN$12,500332023
Mount Olivet Rolling AcresChanhassen, MN$12,500332023
Opportunity PartnersMinnetonka, MN$12,500332023
Perspectives IncMinneapolis, MN$12,500332023
Summit Academy OicMinneapolis, MN$12,500332023
Homeward BoundMinneapolis, MN$12,000332023
PrismGolden Valley, MN$11,000222022
American Red CrossMinneapolis, MN$10,000222022
BridgingBloomington, MN$10,000222022
Children's Hospital & ClinicsSaint Paul, MN$10,000222022
Chrestomathy IncEden Prairie, MN$10,000112023
Cystic Fibrosis FoundationBethesda, MD$10,000222022
Feed My Starving ChildrenCoon Rapids, MN$10,000222022
Loaves & FishesMinneapolis, MN$10,000222022
Make a WishSaint Paul, MN$10,000222022
MatterSaint Louis Park, MN$10,000222022
Mca DenverDenver, CO$10,000222023
Miyamba Remedial Education for CameroonCoon Rapids, MN$10,000222022
New Horizons FoundationColorado Springs, CO$10,000222022
People Serving PeopleMinneapolis, MN$10,000222022
Prager University FoundationSherman Oaks, CA$10,000222022
Reach for ResourcesMinnetonka, MN$10,000222022
Ronald Mcdonald House CharitiesChicago, IL$10,000222022
Salvation ArmyAlexandria, VA$10,000222022
Second HarvestBrooklyn Park, MN$10,000222022
The Food GroupMinneapolis, MN$10,000222022
Twin Cities Habitat for HumanitySaint Paul, MN$10,000222022
Union Gospel MissionSaint Paul, MN$10,000222022
YMCA of Metropolitan MinneapolisMinneapolis, MN$10,000222022
Alexander Dawson FoundationLas Vegas, NV$7,500332023
Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth CollegeHanover, NH$7,500332023
Clayton Contributes FundDenver, CO$7,500112022
Opportunity InternationalChicago, IL$7,500112021
Semester at SeaFort Collins, CO$7,500332023
Episcopal Group HomesWayzata, MN$7,000222022
Central Lakes College FundBrainerd, MN$6,000332023
Courage Kenny FoundationMinneapolis, MN$6,000222022
Sisters Rising WorldwideSaint Paul, MN$6,000222022
Alzheimer's AssociationMinneapolis, MN$5,000112022
Big Brothers & Big Sisters DenverEnglewood, CO$5,000112021
Colorado AcademyDenver, CO$5,000112021
Cristo Rey Jesuit High SchoolMinneapolis, MN$5,000222022
International FoundationFairfield, NJ$5,000112021
International Foundation (fellowship Foundation)Baltimore, MD$5,000112022
Los Cabos Children's FoundationEagan, MN$5,000112023
Animal Humane SocietyCoon Rapids, MN$4,000222022
Boy Scouts of AmericaIrving, TX$4,000222022
Bridge for YouthMinneapolis, MN$4,000222022
Confidence Learning CenterBrainerd, MN$4,000222022
Creede Repertory TheatreCreede, CO$4,000222022
Minnesota Public RadioSaint Paul, MN$4,000222022
TreehouseSeattle, WA$4,000222022
National Christian FoundationAlpharetta, GA$3,300112021
Challenge AspenAspen, CO$3,000222022
Edina Community FoundationEdina, MN$3,000222022
Humane Society of Boulder ValleyBoulder, CO$3,000332023
RiseSpring Lake Park, MN$3,000222022
Young LifeColorado Springs, CO$2,700222022
Autism Society of MnSaint Paul, MN$2,000222022
Camp WinnebagoRockford, IL$2,000112022
Christ for People With DisabilitiesAnoka, MN$2,000222022
Friends of EducationMinnetonka, MN$2,000112023
Historic DenverDenver, CO$2,000222023
Minnesota Prayer BreakfastMinneapolis, MN$2,000112022
Minnesotans Against TerrorismHopkins, MN$2,000222022
Operation Living HopeMinneapolis, MN$2,000222022
Peacemaker MinnesotaRoseville, MN$2,000222022
Twin Cities Public TelevisionSaint Paul, MN$2,000222022
WithallSaint Louis Park, MN$2,000222022
Kinship PartnersBrainerd, MN$1,500332023
Trashmaster's InternationalSnowmass Village, CO$1,500222022
Alpha NewsHopkins, MN$1,000112023
American Heart AssociationChamplin, MN$1,000112022
Escuela De GuadalupeDenver, CO$1,000112021
North Hennepin Community College (nhcc)Brooklyn Park, MN$1,000112021
Take Charge MinnesotaMinneapolis, MN$1,000112023
Upper Midwest Law CenterMinneapolis, MN$1,000112023
Speaking ProudlyMinneapolis, MN$500112021
The National Vietnam War MuseumWeatherford, TX$500112022

90 of 112 (80%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 44%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 145 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Education
41 grants
Human Services
27 grants
Arts & Culture
11 grants
Mental Health
8 grants
Youth Development
7 grants
Food & Nutrition
7 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
6 grants
Health Care
5 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202196$535,550$5,000
202297$542,450$5,000
202349$319,000$5,000
20241$439,329$439,329

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

61% of its giving went to organizations in Minnesota.

Minnesota
$1.1M
Nebraska
$439K
Colorado
$147K
District of Columbia
$30K
California
$25K
Illinois
$20K
Maryland
$15K
Virginia
$10K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc65 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund61 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc54 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust49 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program45 shared recipientsThe Minneapolis Foundation41 shared recipients

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Bieber Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 2700 E Cedar Avenue, Denver, CO, 80209. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.

EIN 41-1679484 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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