· Private foundation
Nancy & Joachim Bechtle 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $358k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $387k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $100,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY | $95,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO OPERA | $75,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPHY ADVISORS | $66,667 |
| STINSON BEACH FIRE PROTECTION DISTRIC | $50,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS | $35,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $27,500 |
| INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORY ART | $20,000 |
| UCSF FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FINE ARTS MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | $20,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO FREE CLINIC | $20,000 |
| CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $15,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
41 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SFSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART4× · 2022–2025 · $570k · revenue +14%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY5× · 2021–2025 · $255k · revenue +2%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC3× · 2021–2025 · $140k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- DADETAILS ARE VOLUMINOUS & AVAILABLE AT B STRAUSS ASSOC LTDone grant, 2020 · $1.1M
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +4%- NMNevada Museum of Artone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To connect all people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature, and advance conservation action.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
The Organizations primary impact is to preserve and enhance San Franciscos unique architectural and cultural identity.
Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…
Gardens of golden gate park connects people to plants, the planet, and each other. the gardens offer educational and experiential programs for visitors and actively manages the living collections.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…
The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is Donner Summit Avalanche Dogs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
56 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 92 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SUGAR BOWL SKI TEAM & ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds DONNER SUMMIT AVALANCHE DOGS ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds Nevada Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOR-SITE Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO HOST COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Mimi and Peter Haas Fund · Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation · The Rock Foundation · Swig Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Koret Foundation · Tahoe Community 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 Nancy & Joachim Bechtle 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
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.
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