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Richard & Sandy Beckert Foundation

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.

$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kHealth$2kFood & Nutrition$700Religion$700Philanthropy$500Youth Development$450Human Services$425Other$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200
Median grant
4
States reached
$53k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RINGGOLD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$2,500
THE CAMERON HEYWARD FOUNDATION$225
BEST OF THE BATCH FOUNDATION$225
ALPHA PSI OF CHI PSI EDUCATION$200
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION GREATER$200
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$150
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$150
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$150
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK$100
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY PROJECT$75
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 (FY22–22, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MOM CTR: $100 → 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12k · 11 repeat orgs$1k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
4

Total granted

$12k
$800

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+8%

Still filing today

55%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
Public Safety & DisasterEducationHealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • RV
    RINGGOLD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +44%
  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    3× · 2022–2024 · $700 · revenue +28%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $650 · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • SR
    SCOTTISH RITE FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2023 · $500
  • MC
    MOM CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $100 · revenue +8%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $100
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.

1
Dallas College Foundation Inc

Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.

Education
2
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
3
North Carolina State University Alumni Association Inc

The nc state alumni association engages alumni and friends through programs and services that foster pride and enhance a lifelong connection to nc state university ("nc state").

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4
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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5
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
6
University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that raises and manages private funds for the benefit of UNLV. Our mission is to increase philanthropic support for the university, grow its endowment for…

Education
7
Denver Bar Foundation

The foundation was formed for the purpose of, but not limited to, financial support for the denver bar association's metro volunteer lawyers program. the metro volunteer lawyers program provides pro-bono civil legal services to individuals…

Crime & Legal
8
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
9
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
10
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
11
American Association of University Women Inc

Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.

Education
12
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dallas Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Ringgold Volunteer Fire Department. 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

11 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. 11 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NOTRE DAME OF DALLAS SCHOOLS INC: $4,725 · OtherNOTRE DAME OF DALLAS SCHOOLS INCALPHA PSI OF CHI PSI EDUCATION: $700 · OtherALPHA PSI OF CHI PSI EDUCATIONNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $700 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION GREATER: $700 · OtherALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION GREATERAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $525 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYSCOTTISH RITE FOR CHILDREN: $500 · OtherSCOTTISH RITE FOR CHILDREN+4 more: $625 · Other+4 moreRINGGOLD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $2,900 · Public Safety & DisasterRINGGOLD VOLUNTEER FIRE…THE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyBest of the Batch Foundation: $225 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $650 · EducationAmerican Heart Association Inc: $425 · HealthNATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $400 · Civil RightsTHE CAMERON HEYWARD FOUNDATION INC: $225 · Youth DevelopmentMOM CENTER: $100 · Human Services
Other$8,475Public Safety & Disaster$2,900Philanthropy$725Education$650Health$425Civil Rights$400Youth Development$225Human Services$100

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 budgetRINGGOLD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $2,900 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $425 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBest of the Batch Foundation: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMERON HEYWARD FOUNDATION INC: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BIRTHDAY PARTY PROJECT: $225 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOM CENTER: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSISTERCARE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Blackbaud Giving FundSC10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Richard & Sandy Beckert Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard & Sandy Beckert Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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