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Nancy & Joachim Bechtle Foundation at a glance

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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.

$796k
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.4MEducation$162kEnvironment$143kHealth$116kPublic Safety & Disaster$106kPhilanthropy$70kRecreation & Sports$70kHousing & Shelter$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $358k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $387k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%RICHARD DE LONE SPECIAL HOUSING PROJECT: $10k → 9%NESTED INTEGRAL COACHING CONSTELLATION: $250 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $18k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $8k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 41 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
41

Total granted

$2.1M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+29%

Still filing today

76%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k 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
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
    4× · 2022–2025 · $570k · revenue +14%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $255k · revenue +2%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $140k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • DA
    DETAILS ARE VOLUMINOUS & AVAILABLE AT B STRAUSS ASSOC LTD
    one grant, 2020 · $1.1M
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +4%
  • NM
    Nevada Museum of Art
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Sonoma Botanical Garden
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2
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
4
San Francisco Zoological Society

To connect all people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature, and advance conservation action.

Animals
5
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
6
San Francisco Architectural Heritage

The Organizations primary impact is to preserve and enhance San Franciscos unique architectural and cultural identity.

Arts & Culture
7
Balboa Park Conservancy

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…

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8
San Francisco Botanical Garden Society At Strybing Arboretum

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.

Environment
9
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

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…

Education
10
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

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…

Arts & Culture
11
San Francisco Film Society

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…

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12
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco; 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.
04the grantee network

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
33/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DETAILS ARE VOLUMINOUS & AVAILABLE AT B STRAUSS ASSOC LTD: $1,095,838 · OtherDETAILS ARE VOLUMINOUS & AVAILABLE AT B STRAUSS ASSO…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPHY ADVISORS: $66,667 · OtherFINE ARTS MUSEUM: $60,000 · Other+52 more: $432,925 · Other+52 moreSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $570,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ARTSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $255,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONYSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $200,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATIONSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $57,500 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $145,100 · Arts & Culture+15 moreSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $140,000 · EducationSAN FRANCISC…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKIN…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $70,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…SUGAR BOWL SKI TEAM & ACADEMY: $50,000 · EducationSUGAR BOWL S…CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $50,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA C…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $92,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA WATCH: $7,000 · EnvironmentGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $5,000 · Environment+3 more: $6,300 · EnvironmentAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $45,000 · Human ServicesCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $40,000 · Human ServicesPrader-Willi Homes of California: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $250 · Human ServicesCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND: $50,000 · Food & NutritionDONNER SUMMIT AVALANCHE DOGS: $32,000 · Public Safety & Disaster+1 more: $1,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$1,655,430Arts & Culture$1,227,600Education$410,000Environment$110,300Human Services$95,250Food & Nutrition$50,000Public Safety & Disaster$33,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $570,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $255,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $140,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $92,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $57,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUGAR BOWL SKI TEAM & ACADEMY: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FREE CLINIC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDONNER SUMMIT AVALANCHE DOGS: $32,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN FRANCISCO: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNevada Museum of Art: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOR-SITE Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO HOST COMMITTEE: $12,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPrader-Willi Homes of California: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA WATCH: $7,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST: $3,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY MOUNTAIN CENTER INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPOINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPoint Reyes National Seashore Association: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAccess Institute for Psychological Services: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOLINAS MUSEUM: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLA COCINA: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTINSON BEACH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTINSON BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD & ROSES PRESENTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAHOE FOREST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LITQUAKE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWEETWATER MUSIC HALL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS ↗
  • 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 SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds FOR-SITE Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO HOST COMMITTEE ↗

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.

Marin Community Found…Jewish Community Fede…The San Francisco Fou…The Bessemer Giving F…Silicon Valley Commun…Mimi and Peter Haas F…Tahoe Truckee Communi…The Rock FoundationSwig FoundationEast Bay Community Fo…Koret FoundationTahoe Community Found…
Marin Community FoundationCA38.9× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Nancy & Joachim Bechtle Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nancy & Joachim Bechtle Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Nancy & Joachim Bechtle Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Nancy & Joachim Bechtle Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 92 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home