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Hans and Michele Becherer 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.

$91k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$235kInternational$115kHealth$68kHuman Services$60kAnimals$45kReligion$40kHousing & Shelter$40kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOOD SHEPHERD CATHOLIC SCHOOL$15,000
TUNNELS TO TOWERS$10,000
ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL$10,000
HILDEGARD HOUSE$10,000
DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$10,000
JUDI'S HOUSE$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
RIVERMONT COLLEGIATE$5,000
TEAM RUBICON$5,000
REVEL$500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TEAM RUBICON: $20k → 14%TUNNELS TO TOWERS: $10k → 11%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $20k → 17%RIVERMONT COLLEGIATE: $10k → 12%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $15k → 17%JUDI'S HOUSE: $10k → 8%ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL: $10k → 15%HILDEGARD HOUSE: $10k → 15%TEAM RUBICON: $10k → 14%TUNNELS TO TOWERS: $10k → 11%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $10k → 17%RIVERMONT COLLEGIATE: $10k → 12%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $10k → 17%JUDI'S HOUSE: $10k → 8%ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL: $10k → 15%HILDEGARD HOUSE: $10k → 15%TEAM RUBICON: $10k → 14%TUNNELS TO TOWERS: $10k → 11%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $10k → 17%RIVERMONT COLLEGIATE: $10k → 12%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $10k → 17%ST MARY'S ACADEMY: $10k → 8%ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL: $10k → 15%HILDEGARD HOUSE: $10k → 15%TEAM RUBICON: $10k → 14%TUNNELS TO TOWERS: $10k → 11%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $10k → 17%JUDI'S HOUSE: $10k → 8%ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL: $10k → 15%HILDEGARD HOUSE: $10k → 15%TEAM RUBICON: $10k → 14%TUNNELS TO TOWERS: $10k → 11%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $10k → 17%JUDI'S HOUSE: $10k → 8%DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $10k → 12%ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL: $10k → 15%TUNNELS TO TOWERS: $10k → 11%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $10k → 17%JUDI'S HOUSE: $10k → 8%DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $10k → 12%JUDI'S HOUSE: $10k → 8%DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $10k → 12%GOOD SHEPHERD CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $15k → 12%GOOD SHEPHERD CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $15k → 12%GOOD SHEPHERD CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $15k → 12%GOOD SHEPHERD CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $15k → 12%GOOD SHEPHERD CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $15k → 12%GOOD SHEPHERD CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $15k → 12%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$603k · 12 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
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Total granted

$603k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+27%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyInternationalAnimalsOther

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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +78%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +392%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • VICTORY GARDEN INITIATIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +27%

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.

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Vitalant

Unite blood and biologics donors, talent, and innovation to save and improve lives.

Health
2
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
3
The Riverwoods Group

The mission of the riverwoods group (trwg) is to plan, coordinate, implement & further the missions of the riverwoods company at exeter new hampshire (rwe), birch hill terrace (bh) dba riverwoods manchester (rwm), riverwoods durham (rwd),…

Human Services
4
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
5
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
6
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
7
Reid Hospital & Health Care Services Inc

Our mission: to lead our communities to well-being, one person at a time. this mission is carried out by serving the people of a multi-county service area in reference to their current and future needs for health care services. our major…

Health
8
Corus International Inc

TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…

Human Services
9
American Geophysical Union

Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…

Science & Tech
10
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Inc

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

11
Denver Botanic Gardens Inc

The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.

Environment
12
Hilbert College

Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Victory Garden Initiative Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GOOD SHEPHERD CATHOLIC SCHOOL — $90,000 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERD CATHOLIC SCHOOLST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOL — $50,000 · OtherST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOLST MARY'S ACADEMY — $40,000 · OtherST MARY'S ACADEMYHildegard House Incorporated — $40,000 · OtherHildegard House Incorporated+2 more — $7,500 · OtherSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $60,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TU…RIVERMONT COLLEGIATE — $35,000 · EducationRIVERMONT COLLEGI…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $65,000 · HealthST JUDE CHIL…TEAM RUBICON INC — $65,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTEAM RUBICON…JUDI'S HOUSE INC — $60,000 · PhilanthropyJUDI'S HOUS…+1 more — $500 · PhilanthropyMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $50,000 · InternationalMEDECINS …DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $45,000 · Animals
Other$227,500Education$95,000Health$65,000Public Safety & Disaster$65,000Philanthropy$60,500International$50,000Animals$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC — $65,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHildegard House Incorporated — $40,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetRIVERMONT COLLEGIATE — $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVICTORY GARDEN INITIATIVE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetREVEL — $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC
  • Who funds JUDI'S HOUSE INC
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE
  • Who funds Hildegard House Incorporated
  • Who funds RIVERMONT COLLEGIATE
  • Who funds VICTORY GARDEN INITIATIVE INC
  • Who funds REVEL
  • Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Hans and Michele Becherer Family 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 14 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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