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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.
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k25 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k52 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k27 grants · $2.5M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND | $940,000 |
| ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY COUNCIL | $700,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $240,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ELNET | $233,658 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES | $225,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $150,000 |
| ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION | $125,000 |
| HONEST REPORTING | $125,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $100,000 |
| ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE | $100,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO | $90,400 |
| 18DOORS | $90,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO | $85,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER (IDC) | $80,000 |
| UNITED NATIONS WATCH - USA | $75,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $887k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
116 repeat relationships — 78 still active in FY2021, 38 since wound down; 58 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF ELNET6× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +77%
- FFFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $695k · revenue +147%
- MEMIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $625k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF EUROPEAN LEADERSHIP NETWORKone grant, 2018 · $100k
- JCJewish Community Relations Council San Franciscoone grant, 2020 · $75k
- CFCommittee for Accuracy in Middle Eastone grant, 2020 · $75k
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 jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Common Ground Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
162 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. 162 of the 238 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds OPENDOR MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITHFAMILYCOM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FAIRVOTE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH LEARNINGWORKS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds HONESTREPORTINGCOM INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VENTURE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ART OVER HATE COLLECTIVE INC F/K/N ARTISTS 4 ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds THE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds ONETABLE INC ↗
- Who funds SIXPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS WATCH - USA ↗
- Who funds ISSUE ONE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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: 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
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 Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Pacific University — 2% of income from government
- The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc — 1% 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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