· Private foundation
Clarence and Pearl Becker Charitable 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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES | $2,500 |
| JEWISH MUSEUM MILWAUKEE | $2,500 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $2,100 |
| LEWY BODY DEMENTIA ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $1,000 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES | $750 |
| MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION | $600 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $600 |
| COA YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTERS | $550 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $541 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESS | $500 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE - NATIONAL | $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 (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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 +45% for the ones you funded once.
98 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $654 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
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC8× · 2018–2025 · $22k · revenue +7%- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles9× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +78%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +189%
Funded once
- CSCOLUMBIA ST MARY'S FOUNDATION - CANCER CENTERone grant, 2019 · $5k
- STSCHOOLS THAT CAN INCone grant, 2017 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Litvaksig Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
106 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 106 of the 163 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 MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF BANKRUPTCY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH GEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RUACH INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BET TZEDEK ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Anon Charitable Trust · Green Bay Packers Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Francie Luke Silverman Foundation Under the F Silverman Charitable Tr · Gardner Foundation
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 Clarence and Pearl Becker Charitable 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- National Fallen Firefighters Foundation — 24% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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