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Form 990-PFTax year 2024EIN 84-1741277

Bakala Foundation USA

A private foundation in Greenville, SC. Its return for tax year 2024 lists 1 grant and $100,000 paid in grants.

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Tax year 2024 (period ending Dec 31, 2024), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Accepts applications

The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.

Contact
Grants Administration Committee Bak
355 S Main Street Suite 904
Greenville, SC 29601
(864) 242-8204
Form and materials
Applicants for scholarship awards shall be required to submit such application forms and supporting materials as the foundation may deem appropriate. The scholarship application, in addition to completion of the form itself, requests the applicant obtain one letter of recommendation, which will speak to the applicant's academic achievements and performance, to be sent directly to the foundation. The applicant is also required to submit an essay (limited to 500 words) detailing the applicant's intention to leverage the scholarship award to attend a top academic institution.
Deadlines
None
Restrictions
The size and number of scholarship award(s) are determined on a case-by-case basis by the foundation.
Contact
Iva Baranova
355 S Main Street Suite 904
Greenville, SC 29601
(864) 242-8204
Form and materials
The grant application requests a proposal summary detailing why the applicant is requesting grant funds, as well as a narrative of the work of the applicant organization. The application also requests a current expense budget for the applicant's project(s) and all sources of income toward the project. After the foundation preliminarily approves the grant, the foundation will enter in to a writen agreement with the grantee that specifies in detail the charitable purposes of the grant.
Deadlines
None
Restrictions
The grant agreement requires grantees to repay any portion of the amount granted which is not used for the purposes of the grant or distribution.

Assets and giving by year

5 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2024

    $100,000

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $14,970,741

  • Tax year 2023

    $1,900,000

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $11,024,892

  • Tax year 2022

    $3,000,000

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $8,273,946

  • Tax year 2021

    $3,100,000

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $11,495,680

  • Tax year 2020

    $2,600,000

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $15,636,177

Grants paid in 2024

1 grant, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Givedirectly IncNew York, NY

    General support

    $100,000

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Human services1 grant $100,000100% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. New York1 grant $100,000

Officers, directors and trustees

5 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Marshall WinnPRESIDENT/DIRECTOR Hours 5Pay $0
  • Iva BaranovaSECRETARY/TREASURER/DIRECTOR Hours 5Pay $0
  • William KeenDIRECTOR Hours 1Pay $0
  • Eleanor W NordholmDIRECTOR Hours 1Pay $0
  • John R WigingtonDIRECTOR Hours 1Pay $0

The return

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