· Private foundation
Bechtel Group Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $193k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST | $500,000 |
| Engineers Without Borders - USA | $450,000 |
| NCCER | $350,000 |
| DiscoverE | $300,000 |
| National Action Council for Minorities | $200,000 |
| AWS Foundation | $200,000 |
| Society of Women Engineers | $150,000 |
| Scholarship America Inc | $125,000 |
| National Society of Black Engineers | $125,000 |
| East Tennessee Foundation | $100,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity - INTL | $100,000 |
| Society of Hispanic Prof Engineers | $75,000 |
| Education For Employment | $50,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $50,000 |
| East Tennessee Foundation | $43,059 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
115 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 88 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- EWENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +49%
- JWJA WORLDWIDE INC4× · 2017–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +76%
- SOSOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS4× · 2021–2024 · $525k · revenue +44%
Funded once
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $2.2M · revenue -17%- AFAmerican Fdtn for Suicide Preventionone grant, 2023 · $910k
- ARAmerican Red Cross 3one grant, 2017 · $722k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Education and Research
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Widener University and the most unlike its peers is Education for Employment. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 67 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
132 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 132 of the 264 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JA WORLDWIDE INC ↗
- Who funds AWS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS ↗
- Who funds National Society of Black Engineers ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS- INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA HEALTH & WELFARE BENEFIT PLAN TRUST ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ↗
- Who funds United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BENTON & FRANKLIN COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER OF COMPASSION INC ↗
- Who funds HUTCHINSON COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Northrop Grumman Foundation · Verizon Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Western Union Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bechtel Group Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc — 1% of income from government
- Seton Hall University — 1% of income from government
- Oral Roberts University — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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