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Behring Global Educational Foundation

The foundation is dedicated to providing leadership, oversight, partnership development, and coordination of worldwide wheelchair deliveries as well as supporting various education, health, food and museum programs around the world.

$4.8M
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Food & Nutrition$550kArts & Culture$350kInternational$233kHealth$100kEnvironment$100kAnimals$50kHousing & Shelter$25k
02FY2022 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $1,007,963, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,844,513 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,836,550 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+2 grants · $800k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA$500,000
NATIONAL HISTORY DAY$300,000
Banovich Wildscapes Foundatio$100,000
SHEPHERDS OF WILDLIFE SOCIETY$50,000
SHEPARDS GATE$25,000
AFRICAN CHILDRENS SCHOOLS$17,838
YOURS HUMANLY$10,000
GIFT OF LIFE$5,125
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MEALS OF WHEELS DIABLO: $25k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Grants abroad, by region: $3.4M on the FY2022 return

Schedule F, as filed: 25 regions, $713k to organizations and $2.7M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

China$1.3M · 38% · 2 grants · 13446 people

Stated purpose: PROGRAM: EDUCATION · PROGRAM: MUSEUMS · PROVIDE WHEELCHAIRS TO THE DISABLED

North America (Canada and Mexico)$624k · 19% · 4080 people

Stated purpose: PROVIDE WHEELCHAIRS TO THE DISABLED

Peru$217k · 6% · 1240 people

Stated purpose: PROVIDE WHEELCHAIRS TO THE DISABLED

Panama$157k · 5% · 1230 people

Stated purpose: PROVIDE WHEELCHAIRS TO THE DISABLED

Uganda$99k · 3% · 783 people

Stated purpose: PROVIDE WHEELCHAIRS TO THE DISABLED

Romania$96k · 3% · 490 people

Stated purpose: PROVIDE WHEELCHAIRS TO THE DISABLED

Ukraine$84k · 2% · 250 people

Stated purpose: PROVIDE WHEELCHAIRS TO THE DISABLED

Honduras$83k · 2% · 520 people

Stated purpose: PROVIDE WHEELCHAIRS TO THE DISABLED

Costa Rica$75k · 2% · 480 people

Stated purpose: PROVIDE WHEELCHAIRS TO THE DISABLED

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 25% of Behring Global Educational Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Behring Global Educational Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 25% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 3 repeat orgs$333k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +224% since the first grant, against +118% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
2

Total granted

$1.1M
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+224%
+118%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $208k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
EducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO
    2× · 2020–2022 · $525k · revenue +55%
  • NH
    National History Day Inc
    2× · 2020–2022 · $350k · revenue +224%
  • WE
    WORLD EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $200k

Funded once

  • JM
    JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +118%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +96%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
World Health Foundation
—
2
Willow Hill Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Nature Sacred
Philanthropy
4
The Shepherds Way
Philanthropy
5
Awh Foundation co Robert W Gillett
—
6
New Heart World Ministries
Religion
7
Hearts of Goodness Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Children of Light
Education
9
Garden of Peace
Religion
10
Sonoma Botanical Garden
—
11
Good Shepherds Foundation
—
12
World Ranch Horse Association
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yellowstone Quake Inc; the most unlike its peers is Willow View Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $525,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANONational History Day Inc: $350,000 · EducationNational History Day Inc+1 more: $10,000 · EducationWORLD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherWORLD EDUCATION FO…Shepherds Gate: $25,000 · OtherShepherds Gate+1 more: $5,125 · OtherBANOVICH WILDSCAPES FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyBANOVICH …African Childrens Schools: $17,838 · PhilanthropyAfrican C…JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthShepherds of Wildlife Society: $50,000 · AnimalsMEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION: $25,000 · Human Services
Food & Nutrition$525,000Education$360,000Other$230,125Philanthropy$117,838Health$100,000Animals$50,000Human Services$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $525,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNational History Day Inc: $350,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetShepherds of Wildlife Society: $50,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetShepherds Gate: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAfrican Childrens Schools: $17,838 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetYours Humanly: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE GIFT OF LIFE INC: $5,125 over 1y, 8.8% of budget
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.

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.

Behring Global Educat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Behring Global Educational Foundation Formerly World Education FoundationCA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Behring Global Educational Foundation Formerly World Education Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Behring Global Educational Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Behring Global Educational Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • National History Day Inc: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Behring Global Educational Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Behring Global Educational Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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