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Becker 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Becker Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Becker Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $616k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2020
- Under $10k10 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $203k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $390k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDSHIP ARK | $200,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $100,000 |
| JUVENILE DIABETES RESEACH FOUNDATIO | $90,000 |
| CAMP COURAGEOUS | $30,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY | $30,000 |
| CAMP HERTKO HOLLOW | $25,000 |
| CHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH | $25,000 |
| HARVEST VINEYARD CHURCH | $20,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| MATTHEW HOUSE | $15,000 |
| CRU FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| YSS | $10,000 |
| WINGS OF REFUGE | $10,000 |
| FOOD AT FIRST | $10,000 |
| VARIETY | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–21, $158k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2020, 13 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- FAFRIENDSHIP ARK INC4× · 2017–2020 · $405k · revenue +183%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES4× · 2017–2020 · $255k · revenue +120%
- UWUNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY INC4× · 2017–2020 · $110k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- CICENTRAL IOWA FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAone grant, 2018 · $50k
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +1%- GIGILBERT IOWA FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $5k
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 iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.
Raising funds and marshaling resources within our collective networks to serve those in need throughout our community.
To support bethany lutheran home of council bluffs, ia in carrying out its mission.
The iowa sports foundation (isf) mission is to provide sports, recreation, health and wellness opportunities for iowans of all abilities.
Uniting and strengthening the voice for public health in iowa.
Building iowa's values by recognizing and responding to significantchanges in iowa - those that fundamentally affect families and communities.
The iowa hospital association reimagines health care in iowa for life changing outcomes. as the voice and principal advocate for iowa's hospitals, iha provides strategic leadership, resources, and support to ensure its members can…
To provide a continuum of care that includes safe, supportive, person driven residential treatment options to individuals with mental illness and/or disabilities improving quality of life and enhancing self-sufficiency to support the…
Promoting, for the benefit and education of the general public, the preservation and interpretation of the history of the state of iowa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/a Greater Des Moines Community Fdn and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Oxbow. 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 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 60 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP ARK INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds CAMP HERTKO HOLLOW INC ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds INFORMED CHOICE OF IOWA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GILBERT EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds FOOD AT FIRST ↗
- Who funds MARTHAS HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds MARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEAT CANCER TODAY INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC SCHOOLS BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds AMES HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GILBERT SHOOTING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GILBERT ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB ↗
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: Underwood Family Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Burke Family Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · 3 Sister Non-Profit Inc 3 Sisters Non-Profit · Robert V & Shirley V Dahl Foundation · South Story Bank Charitable Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Family 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.
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.