Oregon · Private foundation
Bechen Family 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.
- $352k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $240,650
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 23
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Bechen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $341k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $287k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $742k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $592k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $586k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $555k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portland Art Museum | $1,096,650 | 6 | 1% |
| Oregon Episcopal School | $1,073,555 | 6 | n/a |
| High Desert Museum | $146,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Victory Academy Inc | $116,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Sierra Schools Foundation | $75,000 | 4 | 54% |
| Metropolitan Family Service | $50,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Childrens Literacy Project Formerly Known as BeUndivided | $50,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Oregon Adaptive Sports | $42,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Friends of the Children | $41,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Portland Parks Foundation | $37,000 | 4 | 3% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($208k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bechen Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Oregon Community Foundation · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Onpoint Community Credit Union · The Autzen Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Wheeler Foundation · The Holzman Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust
How this is measured
About Bechen Family Foundation
- How much does Bechen Family Foundation give?
- Bechen Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $351,805 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Bechen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (61%), Arts & Culture (29%), Health (4%).
- Who are Bechen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Portland Art Museum ($1.1M), Oregon Episcopal School ($1.1M), High Desert Museum ($146k).
- Does Bechen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bechen Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bechen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund, The Oregon Community Foundation, Juan Young Trust.
- Where is Bechen Family Foundation based?
- Bechen Family Foundation is based in OR.
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