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Becker Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$256k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
18%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,900
Largest grant, FY2025
$205,750
Organizations funded a year
11 to 31
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$4.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Becker Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsAnimalsReligionFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$243k8%
FY202411$72k18%
FY202313$122k8%
FY202213$41k8%
FY202114$32k14%
FY202018$33k56%
FY201913$31k54%
FY201831$33k84%
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$521kHealth$59kRecreation & Sports$38kReligion$29kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kAnimals$6kPhilanthropy$4kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
IN
CA
CO
AZ
NM
KS
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Kansas University Endowment Association$422,36390%
Antioch Community Church$19,5006n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$8,00020%
Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center$6,00060%
Skyline Soccer Association$5,80070%
Lovepup Foundation$2,00011%
Steamboat Christian Center$2,0005n/a
Paz De Cristo Community Center$2,00010%
Commission to Every Nation$1,50020%
Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Inc$1,50060%
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Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($161k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Becker Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $422,363 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBreckenridge Outdoor Education Center: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSkyline Soccer Association: $5,800 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLovepup Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPaz De Cristo Community Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommission to Every Nation: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Inc: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Humane Society: $1,320 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetK-Love & Air1 Foundation: $1,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCourt Sports for Life Foundation: $1,050 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIntentional Life Media: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaggie's Place Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeed My Starving Children Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoutt County Humane Society: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Arizona Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPi Kappa Phi Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSelah: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGrand Futures Prevention Coalition: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoutt County Council on Aging Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartners in Routt County: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO21.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Yampa Valley Medical Center Foundation · United Way of the Yampa Valley · Anschutz Family Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Becker Charitable Trust

How much does Becker Charitable Trust give?
Becker Charitable Trust reported 16 grants totaling $256,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Becker Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (75%), Health (8%), Recreation & Sports (5%).
Who are Becker Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Kansas University Endowment Association ($422k), Antioch Community Church ($20k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($8k).
Does Becker Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Becker Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Becker Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Yampa Valley Medical Center Foundation, United Way of the Yampa Valley.
Where is Becker Charitable Trust based?
Becker Charitable Trust is based in CO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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