Skip to content
Susan & Charlie Bickerton Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0176% 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
02FY2022 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $15,116, the rows itemized in this filing. The $26,455 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $11,339 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$777
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hope Center - Extended$1,200
Hope Center - Gen Fund$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,200
Uzima Water Filters/SWOK$1,200
B Walker Ranch$1,200
Food Bank of CC$777
Restore Ministries$777
Schung Center$777
Agua Viva Ministries$777
Bay Area Crisis Nursery$777
Bay Area Rescue Mission$777
EPIC Ministries$777
Monument Crisis Center$777
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33k · 18 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
9

Total granted

$33k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+13%

Still filing today

39%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BA
    BAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $2k · revenue +36%
  • AV
    AGUA VIVA MINISTRIES
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1k · revenue +72%
  • WC
    WESTMONT COLLEGE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $977 · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • SN
    SF Night Ministry
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • HC
    Hope Center - Lobby
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • CC
    CRU - Curran/Danial & Margoc
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
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.

03Its 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
Salt With a Mission

Teach the ministry of christ

Religion
2
Fruitful Missions
Religion
3
Fruitful Vine Ministry

Pastoral care

Religion
4
Madera Rescue Mission Inc

The rescue mission provides services to the homeless population in madera county in california. it provides housing for men, women, and families on an emergency short-term basis. it also operates a rehabilitation program for men and women.

Human Services
5
Bread of Life Mission

Bringing hope, healing, and recovery to seattle's homeless through a christ-centered approach.

Human Services
6
Good News Rescue Mission

To bring Good News to the poor, homeless, or needy of Shasta County by sharing the love of God exemplified by the life and ministry of Jesus Christ, providing emergency subsistence services, and providing long term recovery services.

Human Services
7
Bread of Life Rescue Mission

To provide meals and shelter to the working poor and homeless in North San Diego County.

—
8
Life As Mission
Unclassified
9
Oasis Ministries
Religion
10
Rescue Mission Alliance

The rescue mission alliance's primary purpose is to establish and operate rescue missions to reach the less fortunate with the gospel of jesus christ and to assist in the feeding, clothing, and lodging of those who are destitute or…

Human Services
11
Butte Rescue Mission

The Butte Rescue Mission is transforming lives in Jesus's name, offering assistance to those facing homelessness by providing food, shelter and clothing to restore individuals and reunite families, empowering them to reintegrate into…

—
12
Union Rescue Mission

Union rescue mission embraces people with the compassion of christ. we assist people experiencing homelessness by providing a comprehensive array of emergency and long-term services to our guests, including: food, shelter, clothing,…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Area Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Epic Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 31 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)
8/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Hope Center - Gen Fund: $5,977 · OtherHope Center - Gen FundFood Bank of CC: $3,477 · OtherFood Bank of CCRestore Ministries: $3,177 · OtherRestore MinistriesHope Center - Extended: $2,754 · OtherHope Center - ExtendedSF Night Ministry: $2,400 · OtherSF Night MinistryBAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY: $1,854 · OtherEPIC Ministries: $1,854 · OtherHope Center - Lobby: $1,777 · OtherHope Center - Staff Love Offering: $1,554 · OtherUzima Water Filters/SWOK: $1,500 · OtherAGUA VIVA MINISTRIES: $1,377 · Other+14 more: $11,562 · Other+14 moreB WALKER RANCH: $2,400 · Human ServicesB WALKER RANCHBAY AREA RESCUE MISSION: $1,854 · Human ServicesBAY AREA RESCU…MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $1,854 · Human ServicesMONUMENT CRISI…WESTMONT COLLEGE: $977 · EducationALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $300 · HealthSHELTER INC: $200 · Housing & Shelter
Other$39,263Human Services$6,108Education$977Health$300Housing & Shelter$200

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 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
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.

  • Who funds B WALKER RANCH ↗
  • Who funds BAY AREA RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds BAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EPIC Ministries ↗
  • Who funds AGUA VIVA MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds RESTORE ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER INC ↗

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.

Amazonsmile Foundation
Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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.

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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Susan & Charlie Bickerton’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home