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Riley & Susan Bechtel 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.

$6.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$600,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,000,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$68M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Riley & Susan Bechtel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23
Food & NutritionScience & TechHealthArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$6.5M67%
FY20233$2.7M33%
FY20224$917k50%
FY20212$700k50%
FY20201$100k100%
FY20182$2.1M0%
FY20172$2.1Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$8.1MFood & Nutrition$2.7MEducation$2.2MScience & Tech$2.2MPhilanthropy$1.4MArts & Culture$100k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Riley & Susan Bechtel Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of California San Francisco Foundation: $4,000,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $2,400,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetUc San Diego Foundation: $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetConvergent Research Inc: $2,000,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $1,250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Familial Hypercholesterolemia Foundation: $500,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation: $301,865 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSan Francisco Food Bank: $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Exploratorium: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCounterPulse: $100,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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How do I get to Riley & Susan Bechtel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Riley & Susan Bechtel 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.

About Riley & Susan Bechtel Foundation

How much does Riley & Susan Bechtel Foundation give?
Riley & Susan Bechtel Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $6,650,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Riley & Susan Bechtel Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (48%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Education (13%).
Who are Riley & Susan Bechtel Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of California San Francisco Foundation ($4.0M), Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ($2.4M), Uc San Diego Foundation ($2.0M).
Does Riley & Susan Bechtel Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Riley & Susan Bechtel Foundation 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.
Where is Riley & Susan Bechtel Foundation based?
Riley & Susan Bechtel Foundation is based in CA.

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 13 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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