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Robert and Joan Behlman Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Robert and Joan Behlman Family 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.

$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$500
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$11kEducation$4kReligion$3kArts & Culture$1kHuman Services$1k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$34k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHOENIX RESCUE MISSION$500
EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$500
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$500
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$500
VERDE CARES INC$500
GREAT OAKS ACADEMY$400
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 (FY17–19, $850) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $350 → 11%COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $250 → 11%COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $250 → 11%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18k · 8 repeat orgs$1k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +140% since the first grant, against -72% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$18k
$250

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+140%
-72%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Center
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +94%
  • PG
    PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +26%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +392%

Funded once

  • MA
    MED ACCESS INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2023 · $250 · revenue -72%
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
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
2
Flagstaff Medical Center

Improving health, healing people.

Health
3
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
4
Mount Sinai Community Foundation

To improve the health of the community it serves by ensuring the availability of medical, surgical, and primary care physicians and advanced practice providers and high quality healthcare services.

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5
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
6
United States Veterans Initiative

The successful transition of military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.

Human Services
7
Gwinnett Medical Group Inc

Gwinnett medical group, inc., (gmgi),was formed for the purpose of establishing and operating certain hospital based and clinical outreach physician services with our service community. gmgi employs specialty physicians that serve patients…

—
8
Emanate Health Hospice

Our mission is to help people keep well in body, mind, and spirit by providing quality health care services in a safe, compassionate environment.

Human Services
9
Usc Arcadia Hospital Foundation

Mission statement the mission of usc arcadia hospital foundation educates and inspires the community to generously support quality medical care at usc arcadia hospital.

Health
10
Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation

To provide with compassion and dedication superior quality health care and rehabilitation for adults and to directly or indirectly coordinate arrangements and provision for comprehensive health care and social support services to frail…

Health
11
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
12
The Administrators in Medicine Foundation
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Gospel Mission; the most unlike its peers is Med Access International. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH: $4,875 · OtherFISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCHEISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $2,100 · OtherEISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONEisenhower Medical Center: $2,900 · HealthEisenhower Medical Cent…VerdeCares Inc: $500 · HealthVerdeCares IncALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & R…MED ACCESS INTERNATIONAL: $250 · HealthMED ACCESS INTERNATIONA…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,600 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL…GREAT OAKS ACADEMY: $1,200 · EducationGREAT OAKS ACADEMYPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $2,600 · ReligionPHOENIX GOSPEL…NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,350 · Arts & CultureCOACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $850 · Human Services
Other$6,975Health$4,150Education$3,800Religion$2,600Arts & Culture$1,350Human Services$850

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $2,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $2,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT OAKS ACADEMY: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVerdeCares Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMED ACCESS INTERNATIONAL: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert and Joan Behlman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert and Joan Behlman Family 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 11 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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