· Private foundation
Becker Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $206k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ENDOWMENT | $205,750 |
| EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,500 |
| CORPUS CHRISTI CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ALZEHEIMER'S ASSOC OF COLORADO | $10,000 |
| LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIAT | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $4,000 |
| ANTIOCH COMMUNITY CHURCH | $3,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $1,900 |
| CITY OF STEAMBOAT SPRINGS COLORADO | $1,200 |
| BRECKENRIDGE OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENT | $1,000 |
| STEAMBOAT YOUTH HOCKEY | $800 |
| ALZHEIMERS SOCIETY | $750 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF STEAMBOAT | $400 |
| YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $400 |
| STEAMBOAT ADAPTIVE REC SPORTS | $400 |
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 (FY18–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 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
- TKThe Kansas University Endowment Association9× · 2017–2025 · $422k · revenue +93%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue +3%
- BOBreckenridge Outdoor Education Center6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- WEWILLIAMS EDUCATIONAL FUNDone grant, 2017 · $8k
- PDPHI DELTA THETA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
- LFLOVEPUP FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +126%
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.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Because of our love for God, we extend his mercy as we strive to empower and improve the lives of unsheltered adults in Pueblo, CO, through provisions of food, shelter and navigational support services.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
The vision of the csfc is to partner with the fire service and supplier partners across the state of colorado in their efforts to protect all of colorado's life and property from fire and other disasters. it is a dynamic organization,…
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
C.A.R.E's mission is practicing excellence in the animal care, education, and advocacy to connect pets to their people.
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.
The adaptive sports center enriches the lives of people with disabilities and other specific needs through exceptional outdoor adventures. the successful programs the asc provides are inclusive to families and friends, empower our…
The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…
Yampatika's mission is to inspire environmental stewardship through education. They fulfil that mission by developing environmental learning opportunities that serve the children and adults of Northwest Colorado.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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 33 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% 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 9% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 64 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
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 The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center ↗
- Who funds SKYLINE SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOVEPUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Paz De Cristo Community Center ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT-ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION TO EVERY NATION ↗
- Who funds Arizona Humane Society ↗
- Who funds K-LOVE & AIR1 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COURT SPORTS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA ↗
- Who funds MAGGIE'S PLACE 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: 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
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 Becker Charitable Trust 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.
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 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.