Iowa · Private foundation
Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,564
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,015,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 43
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $48M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $448k 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 | 40 | $2.5M | 35% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $2.3M | 35% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $2.5M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $2.2M | 58% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $1.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Men's Christian Association of the Iowa Mississippi Valley | $1,066,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Palmer College Foundation | $965,000 | 3 | 1% |
| City of Bettendorf | $699,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Putnam Museum and Science Center | $598,300 | 4 | 6% |
| YWCA of the Quad Cities | $442,750 | 4 | 3% |
| Quad Cities Chamber Foundation - Iowa | $250,000 | 5 | 19% |
| Ballet Quad Cities | $215,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Davenport Community School District | $207,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Project Renewal of Davenport | $200,000 | 1 | 45% |
| Family Resources Inc | $184,640 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 55 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Quad Cities Community Foundation · Scott County Regional Authority · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc · Rauch Family Foundation I Inc · The Rock Island Community Foundation · Hubbell-Waterman Fndn · United Way Quad Cities · Moline Foundation · Grant & Virginia Brissman Foundation Nfp · Mary Iva Gittins Knouse Tr Uw
How this is measured
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About Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust
- How much does Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust give?
- Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust reported 41 grants totaling $2,522,514 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 43 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Arts & Culture (18%), Health (18%).
- Who are Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Young Men's Christian Association of the Iowa Mississippi Valley ($1.1M), Palmer College Foundation ($965k), City of Bettendorf ($699k).
- Does Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Quad Cities Community Foundation, Scott County Regional Authority, Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust based?
- Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust is based in IA.
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