Bid Foundation
San Diego, CA · EIN 33-0795270. Reported 22 grants totalling $628,134 to 22 organizations across tax years 2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Bid Foundation, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S31) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 22 distinct organizations, with 7% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $34,347. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $35,839; the smallest was $7,500 and the largest $42,554. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Beach Community Development Corp | San Diego, CA | $42,554 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| La Jolla Village Merchants Association Inc | La Jolla, CA | $40,404 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hillcrest Business Improvement Association | San Diego, CA | $40,192 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| El Cajon Boulevard Business Improvement Association | San Diego, CA | $37,573 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Downtown San Diego Partnership | San Diego, CA | $36,451 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| East Village Association Inc | San Diego, CA | $35,839 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Little Italy Association of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $35,678 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Adams Avenue Business Association Inc | San Diego, CA | $35,245 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Park Organization of Businesses Inc | San Diego, CA | $35,024 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| College Area Economic Development Corporation | San Diego, CA | $34,675 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| City Heights Community Development Corporation | San Diego, CA | $34,624 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| County of San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce | San Diego, CA | $34,071 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mission Hills B I D | San Diego, CA | $33,774 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Old Town San Diego Chamber of Commerce | San Diego, CA | $33,630 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gaslamp Quarter Association Inc | San Diego, CA | $32,967 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ocean Beach Merchants Association Inc | San Diego, CA | $32,933 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| All for Logan | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mckinley School Foundation of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| South Park Business Group Inc | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of La Jolla Elementary Inc | La Jolla, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Thomas Jefferson Elementary | San Diego, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Walter Munk Foundation for the Oceans | La Jolla, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 13 of 22 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $34,347 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Bid Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 10 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 12 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 4704 College Ave, San Diego, CA, 92115.
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