The Big E Family Foundation
Yreka, CA · EIN 33-3395997. Reported 27 grants totalling $1,625,000 to 27 recipients across tax years 2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Big E Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $50,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $25,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $25,000 and the largest $500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairchild Medical Center Foundation | Yreka, CA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| 10TH District Junior Livestock Committee | Yreka, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Butte Valley Ambulance Service Inc | Dorris, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Butte Valley Fire Protection District | Macdoel, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| California Cattlewomen Heritage Foundation | Parkfield, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| California Deer Association - Mt Shasta Chapter | Mt Shasta, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Dorris Volunteer Fire Department | Dorris, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mt Shasta Race Association | Mt Shasta, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Nra Foundation Inc | Fairfax, VA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation - California Chapter | Pollock Pines, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Siskiyou Works - Butte Valley Cte Program | Yreka, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Sky Lakes Medical Center Foundation | Klamath Falls, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Timothy's House Orphanage Industries & Farms Inc | Wickenburg, AZ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Tulelake-Butte Valley Fair Friends | Yreka, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Washington State University Foundation - College of Veterinary Medicine | Pullman, WA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Weed High School Athletic Hall of Fame | Weed, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Wickenburg Elks Club #2160 | Wickenburg, AZ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Wonderful Weed Ca | Weed, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| American Legion Kellis-Draper Post 12 | Wickenburg, AZ | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| American Legion Post 8 - Klamath Falls | Klamath Falls, OR | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Cal Poly Humboldt Foundation (chasing Talons) | Arcadia, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Junction City Local Aid | Junction City, OR | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Madrone Hospice Inc | Yreka, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Miner Power Inc | Yreka, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mount Hermon Association Inc | Mount Hermon, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Stable Hands | Yreka, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Water Missions International | N Charlotte, SC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
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.
- 10TH District Junior Livestock Committee
EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES FOR CHILDREN PARTICIPATING IN THE FAIR AND ANNUAL LIVESTOCK AUCTION. - Mt Shasta Race Association
SUPPORT THE MT. SHASTA SKI TEAM
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 14 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.
Where its money goes
78% of its giving went to organizations in California. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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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: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $50,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Big E Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 1 return. 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: 205 Lane Street, Yreka, CA, 96097. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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