California · Private foundation
Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $5.4M
- Granted FY2021
- 106
- Grants FY2021
- 99
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2021
Read this first · the figures below need context
59% of Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 34 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust named its own grantees at scale: 81 organizations, $5M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2021
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2021
- $940,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 99
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2021
- 12
- Total assets, FY2021
- $157M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 32% of the organizations Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $621k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 99 | $4.0M | 32% |
| FY2020 | 82 | $3.1M | 29% |
| FY2019 | 79 | $3.0M | 51% |
| FY2018 | 65 | $1.9M | 57% |
| FY2017 | 39 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Elnet | $1,460,655 | 6 | 5% |
| Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc | $695,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc | $625,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Israel on Campus Coalition Inc | $530,000 | 5 | 2% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $525,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ | $479,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco Marin & Peninsula | $411,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Opendor Media Inc | $410,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Jerusalem Foundation Inc | $359,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Israel Emergency Alliance | $352,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 162 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 143 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Newton D & Rochelle F Becker Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Koret Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Milstein Family Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Marcus Foundation Inc · Fjc · Goodman Family Supporting Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
How this is measured
Compare Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust with peer funders
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About Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust
- How much does Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust give?
- Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust reported 106 grants totaling $5,384,708 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 99 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (44%), International (22%), Religion (6%).
- Who are Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Friends of Elnet ($1.5M), Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ($695k), Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc ($625k).
- Does Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Newton D & Rochelle F Becker Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Koret Foundation.
- Where is Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust based?
- Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust is based in CA.
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