Wisconsin · 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.
- $30k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2025
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 76
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $279k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Clarence and Pearl Becker Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 52 | $27k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 53 | $24k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $27k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 62 | $26k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 63 | $22k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 70 | $23k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 73 | $23k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 76 | $22k | 24% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milwaukee Public Museum Inc | $21,750 | 8 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $14,400 | 9 | 0% |
| University of California Berkeley Foundation | $7,750 | 8 | 0% |
| Children's Outing Association | $4,750 | 9 | 0% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $4,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $4,100 | 9 | 0% |
| American College of Bankruptcy Foundation | $3,750 | 8 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Inc | $3,375 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $3,255 | 9 | 0% |
| Puppies Behind Bars Inc | $3,236 | 9 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($70k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Clarence and Pearl Becker Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Clarence and Pearl Becker Charitable Foundation
- How much does Clarence and Pearl Becker Charitable Foundation give?
- Clarence and Pearl Becker Charitable Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $30,222 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 76 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Clarence and Pearl Becker Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Health (20%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are Clarence and Pearl Becker Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Milwaukee Public Museum Inc ($22k), Children's Hospital Los Angeles ($14k), University of California Berkeley Foundation ($8k).
- Does Clarence and Pearl Becker Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Clarence and Pearl Becker Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Clarence and Pearl Becker Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation.
- Where is Clarence and Pearl Becker Charitable Foundation based?
- Clarence and Pearl Becker Charitable Foundation is based in WI.
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