· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| WINGS OF REFUGE | $10,000 |
| FOOD AT FIRST | $10,000 |
| YSS | $10,000 |
| VARIETY | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +40% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEAT CANCER TODAY INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC SCHOOLS BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds AMES HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GILBERT SHOOTING CLUB INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Becker Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Becker Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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