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Dr and Mrs Bernhard Boecker Foundation Charitable Trust

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.

$294k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$73k
Largest
01What you fund
0175% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Philanthropy$373kReligion$372kEnvironment$354kAnimals$30kArts & Culture$20kHousing & Shelter$20kFood & Nutrition$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $219k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARTLEY NATURE CENTER$72,938
DULUTH SUPERIOR AREA COMM FD$72,938
THE DEPOT FOUNDATION$72,938
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA$10,000
ALL FAITHS FOOD BK$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
DULUTH SUPERIOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$5,000
POODLE POOCH RESCUE$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HARTLEY NATURE CENTER: $88k → 15%ALL FAITHS FOOD BK: $10k → 9%POODLE POOCH RESCUE: $5k → 12%HARTLEY NATURE CENTER: $79k → 15%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SARASOTA: $10k → 9%POODLE POOCH RESCUE: $5k → 12%HARTLEY NATURE CENTER: $73k → 15%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SARASOTA: $10k → 9%HARTLEY NATURE CENTER: $66k → 15%HABITIT FOR HUMANITY: $10k → 9%HARTLEY NATURE CENTER: $49k → 15%THE CIRCUS CONSERVATORY: $15k → 9%THE DEPOT FOUNDATION: $88k → 15%THE CIRCUS CONSERVATORY: $10k → 9%DULUTH SUPERIOR AREA COMM FD: $87k → 15%THE CIRCUS CONSERVATORY: $5k → 9%DULUTH SUPERIOR AREA COMM FD: $86k → 15%THE CIRCUS CONSERVATORY: $5k → 9%THE DEPOT FOUNDATION: $79k → 15%COMMUNITY FD OF SARASOTA CTY INC: $19k → 9%DULUTH SUPERIOR AREA COMM FD: $78k → 15%MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $10k → 9%DULUTH SUPERIOR AREA COMM FD: $73k → 15%HUMANE SOCIETY OF SARASOTA CTY: $5k → 9%THE DEPOT FOUNDATION: $73k → 15%HUMANE SOC OF SARASOTA CTY: $5k → 9%THE DEPOT FOUNDATION: $66k → 15%HUMANE SOC OF SARASOTA CTY: $5k → 9%THE DEPOT FOUNDATION: $49k → 15%HUMANE SOCIETY OF SARASOTA CTY: $5k → 9%DULUTH SUPERIOR AREA COMM FD: $49k → 15%VENICE ART CENTER: $5k → 9%DULUTH SUPERIOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 15%MOTE MARINE LAB: $25k → 9%DULUTH SUPERIOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 15%MOTE MARINE LAB: $25k → 9%MOTE MARINE LAB: $25k → 9%MOTE MARINE LAB: $25k → 9%MOTE MARINE LAB: $25k → 9%VAN WEZEL FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 9 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 7 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

9
3

Total granted

$1.3M
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%
+47%

Still filing today

56%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • DS
    DULUTH SUPERIOR AREA COMM FD
    5× · 2021–2025 · $372k
  • HN
    HARTLEY NATURE CENTER
    5× · 2021–2025 · $354k · revenue -40%
  • TD
    THE DEPOT FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $354k · revenue -43%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FD OF SARASOTA CTY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $19k
  • SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -36%
  • VA
    VENICE ART CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +47%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Heart Gallery of Sarasota
2
The Fine Arts Society of Sarasota Inc

To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.

3
Dunedin Fine Art Center

The mission at the Dunedin Fine Art Center is to enrich lives through educational experiences in the visual arts. The vision is to make the Dunedin Fine Art Center a leading visual art center providing unparalleled educational, cultural &…

Arts & Culture
4
Art Center Sarasota Inc

To provide sarasota with opportunities for creative expression and art appreciation through art education, exhibitions and cultural programs.

Arts & Culture
5
Creative Kids Srq
Arts & Culture
6
Sarasota City Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
7
Cultural Hub of Nw Florida Inc

A thriving art community creates a more prosperous and resilient community overall. We view resiliency as a top priority for our community as Panama City and the surrounding areas work to recover from Hurricane Michael in 2018. We believe…

Arts & Culture
8
Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts Foundation

The mission of the suffolk center for cultural arts is to "cultivate, promote, and provide access to the creative arts for all residents and visitors through programs, education, and outreach.". we value the need for artistic expression…

Arts & Culture
9
Hayward Arts Council

The hayward arts council hac embraces all forms of the arts in the hayward ca region serving both artists and patrons. hac maintains five galleries in hayward and sponsors shows for members and non-members and emerging and professional…

10
Frabel Art Foundation Inc

Exhibits to educate the public on glass art

11
Bayarts

The mission of bayarts is to provide a welcoming lakeside environment to stimulate, encourage and support professional and aspiring artists of all ages through collaboration, education and exhibition.

12
Hernando County Fine Arts Council

Encouraging, promoting & supporting all

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sarasota Performing Arts Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Depot Foundation. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DULUTH SUPERIOR AREA COMM FD — $372,297 · OtherDULUTH SUPERIOR AREA COMM FDTHE DEPOT FOUNDATION — $354,295 · OtherTHE DEPOT FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $125,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $35,000 · Other+6 more — $73,535 · Other+6 moreHARTLEY NATURE CENTER — $354,295 · EnvironmentHARTLEY NATURE CENTERHumane Society of Sarasota County Inc — $20,000 · AnimalsDULUTH SUPERIOR SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIO — $10,000 · Arts & CultureVENICE ART CENTER — $5,000 · Arts & CultureALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$960,127Environment$354,295Animals$20,000Arts & Culture$15,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHARTLEY NATURE CENTER — $354,295 over 5y, 15% of budgetTHE DEPOT FOUNDATION — $354,295 over 5y, 11% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Sarasota Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHumane Society of Sarasota County Inc — $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDULUTH SUPERIOR SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIO — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVENICE ART CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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 HARTLEY NATURE CENTER
  • Who funds THE DEPOT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Habitat for Humanity Sarasota Inc
  • Who funds Humane Society of Sarasota County Inc
  • Who funds DULUTH SUPERIOR SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIO
  • Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds VENICE ART CENTER

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Dr and Mrs Bernhard Boecker Foundation Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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