Iowa · Private foundation
Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $375,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 39
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- 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, 33% of the organizations Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k 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 | 38 | $2.7M | 37% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $2.4M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $2.4M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $2.5M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $2.2M | 49% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $2.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 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 | $2,284,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Palmer College Foundation | $1,335,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa | $465,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Figge Art Museum | $460,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Common Chord | $395,000 | 2 | 44% |
| Putnam Museum and Science Center | $325,000 | 4 | 4% |
| City of Bettendorf | $301,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Hand in Hand | $268,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois Inc | $250,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Childserve Foundation Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 63 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 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: Scott County Regional Authority · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Hubbell-Waterman Fndn · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc · United Way Quad Cities · Rauch Family Foundation I Inc · The Rock Island Community Foundation · Mary Iva Gittins Knouse Tr Uw · Moline Foundation · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust
- How much does Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust give?
- Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust reported 39 grants totaling $2,729,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 39 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Arts & Culture (17%), Education (15%).
- Who are Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Young Men's Christian Association of the Iowa Mississippi Valley ($2.3M), Palmer College Foundation ($1.3M), Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa ($465k).
- Does Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Scott County Regional Authority, Quad Cities Community Foundation, Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust.
- Where is Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust based?
- Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust is based in IA.
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