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Susan & Charlie Bickerton Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$26k
Granted FY2022
20
Itemized grants FY2022
20
Organizations funded FY2022
20%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$15k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$777
Largest grant, FY2022
$1,200
Organizations funded a year
19 to 21
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 20% of the organizations Susan & Charlie Bickerton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
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
FY202220$15k20%
FY202119$16k32%
FY202021$15kn/a
76% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Human Services$15kReligion$6kFood & Nutrition$3kEnvironment$2kHousing & Shelter$1kCommunity Improvement$400Education$200Health$200Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
B Walker Ranch$2,40022%
Bay Area Rescue Mission$1,85430%
Bay Area Crisis Nursery$1,85430%
Monument Crisis Center$1,85430%
EPIC Ministries$1,8543n/a
Agua Viva Ministries$1,37730%
The Salvation Army$1,0771n/a
Westmont College$97730%
Restore$7771n/a
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$30010%
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All grantees of Susan & Charlie Bickerton Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
B Walker Ranch$2,40022%
Bay Area Rescue Mission$1,85430%
Bay Area Crisis Nursery$1,85430%
Monument Crisis Center$1,85430%
EPIC Ministries$1,8543n/a
Agua Viva Ministries$1,37730%
The Salvation Army$1,0771n/a
Westmont College$97730%
Restore$7771n/a
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$30010%
Shelter Inc$20020%
The Salvation Army$2002n/a

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($32k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetB Walker Ranch: $2,400 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBay Area Rescue Mission: $1,854 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBay Area Crisis Nursery: $1,854 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMonument Crisis Center: $1,854 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAgua Viva Ministries: $1,377 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWestmont College: $977 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShelter Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% 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 8.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

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About Susan & Charlie Bickerton Foundation

How much does Susan & Charlie Bickerton Foundation give?
Susan & Charlie Bickerton Foundation reported 20 itemized grants totaling $15,116, out of $26,455 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Susan & Charlie Bickerton Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Human Services (7%), Religion (3%), Food & Nutrition (1%).
Who are Susan & Charlie Bickerton Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: B Walker Ranch ($2k), Bay Area Rescue Mission ($2k), Bay Area Crisis Nursery ($2k).
Does Susan & Charlie Bickerton Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Susan & Charlie Bickerton 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as Susan & Charlie Bickerton Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Susan & Charlie Bickerton Foundation based?
Susan & Charlie Bickerton Foundation is based in CO.

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 31 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports $29k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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