· Private foundation
B E C K Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VALLEY FREE CHURCH | $11,000 |
| ABOVE AND BEYOND CANCER | $5,000 |
| B2 THE WORLD | $2,004 |
| INNERVISIONS HEALTH CARE | $2,000 |
| CRU MINISTRIES | $1,800 |
| INTERNATIONAL MESSENGERS | $1,200 |
| MAGNOLIA BIBLE CHURCH | $750 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $641 |
| SINGLE PARENT PROVISION | $500 |
| SELF HELP INTERNATIONAL | $500 |
| STRANDS OF STRENGTH | $500 |
| CALVERY CHAPEL CHINO HILLS | $108 |
| DMACC EDUCATION | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| BLACK WOMEN FOR HEALTHY LIVING | $50 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 90% of B E C K Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 72% of the giving stays in IA; by stated purpose, 7%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- THTHE HUMAN CHOICE OF IOWA5× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +69%
- IMInternational Messengers6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +32%
- SOSTRANDS OF STRENGTH INC5× · 2021–2025 · $2k · revenue +46%
Funded once
GLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +18%- LFLighthouse Family Retreat Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250 · revenue +47%
- ESEAST SIDE FAMILY CLINICone grant, 2024 · $250
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.
Connecting families affected by childhood cancer by providing opportunities that encourage relationships and strengthen community.
Biblical support of single moms. To encourage and support single moms to thrive and not just survive.
Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.
Provide humanitarian aid and christian discipleship.
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE HUMAN CHOICE OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds International Messengers ↗
- Who funds ABOVE AND BEYOND CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds STRANDS OF STRENGTH INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds SELF-HELP INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SINGLE PARENT PROVISION ↗
- Who funds Lighthouse Family Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Des Moines Refugee Support ↗
- Who funds ELLIPSIS INC ↗
- Who funds DMACC FOUNDATION ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Mary K and Daniel M Kelly Family Foundation C/O Dan Kelly · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · R & R Realty Group Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization B E C K Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from B E C K Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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