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Betlach Family Foundation at a glance

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Betlach 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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.3MEnvironment$696kHealth$79kInternational$22kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $72k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.3M
$40,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC BETLACH FUND$1,334,452
OCEANIC SOCIETY$50,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$40,000
SURFRIDER FOUNDATION$12,000
COMMONWEAL$10,000
SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE$10,000
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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMMONWEAL: $10k → 8%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$539k · 4 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +160% since the first grant, against +84% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$539k
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+160%
+84%

Still filing today

50%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • OS
    Oceanic Society Expeditions
    9× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue +160%
  • U
    UPWELL
    6× · 2018–2024 · $79k
  • WR
    WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $38k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • R
    RARE
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +14%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
5
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
6
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
7
Turtle Island Restoration Network

To mobilize people in local communities around the world to protect marine wildlife and the oceans and inland watersheds that sustain them.

Environment
8
Clean Reefs
Environment
9
California Wildlife Foundation

The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species

Animals
10
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
11
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
12
Ocean Alliance Project

Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western Rivers Conservancy; the most unlike its peers is Commonweal. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC BETLACH FUND: $1,334,452 · OtherDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC BETLACH FUNDOceanic Society Expeditions: $390,000 · OtherOceanic Society ExpeditionsTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $200,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYUPWELL: $79,080 · Other+5 more: $86,361 · OtherTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $32,000 · EnvironmentRARE: $15,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $10,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY: $7,500 · EnvironmentINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMONWEAL: $10,000 · Human ServicesTibet Fund Inc: $10,000 · International
Other$2,089,893Environment$64,500Philanthropy$12,000Human Services$10,000International$10,000

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 budgetOceanic Society Expeditions: $390,000 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $200,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRARE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMONWEAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTibet Fund Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKILAUEA POINT NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION: $3,861 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

  • Who funds Oceanic Society Expeditions ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RARE ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMONWEAL ↗
  • Who funds SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds Tibet Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds KILAUEA POINT NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Western Rivers Conservancy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Betlach Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Betlach Family 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 16 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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