· Private foundation
Belcan 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.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| May We Help | $5,000 |
| Get WiT IT | $3,000 |
| University of Wisconsin-Platteville Foundation | $3,000 |
| Robotics Institute of Maine | $2,500 |
| University of Kentucky | $2,000 |
| Girl Scouts of Connecticut | $1,500 |
| Willington Board of Education | $1,500 |
| East Granby Board of Education | $1,500 |
| Loxahatchee River Environmental Control District | $1,000 |
| Newtons Attic | $1,000 |
| Society of Women Engineers | $1,000 |
| County of Maricopa Gilbert Public Schools | $1,000 |
| University of Kentucky - Agency and Instrumentality of the Commonwealth of | $500 |
| Rockford MakerSpace Inc FLYT 2290 | $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 (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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
6 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. 6 of the 14 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.
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Belcan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Belcan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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How do I get to Belcan Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Belcan 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.
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