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The Becker Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.3M
Granted FY2017
15
Grants FY2017
5
States reached
$1.2M
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

92% of The Becker Family Foundation Inc’s FY2017 grant dollars went to Indian River Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2017 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

01What it funds
01FY2017 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k9 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $69k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.2M
$7,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,180,769
BRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL$28,900
NO LABELS FOUNDATION$10,000
RIVERSIDE THEATRE$10,000
VAIL HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
UNITED AGAINST POVERTY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
ST EDWARD'S SCHOOL$7,500
Individual grant recipient$6,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA$5,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$2,500
UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY$1,000
JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION$1,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$1,000
564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
02

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $3k → 14%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $1k → 17%NO LABELS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%RIVERSIDE THEATRE: $10k → 12%KITRM - KARLI INSTITUTE: $8k → 7%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $6k → 17%ST EDWARD'S SCHOOL: $8k → 12%564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%UNITED AGAINST POVERTY: $10k → 12%VERO BEACH ORCHESTRA: $6k → 12%UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY: $1k → 12%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 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
Island Hospital Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to raise funds to support island health and its commitment to community health in and around anacortes, washington.

Unclassified
2
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
3
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.

Health
4
United Way Foundation of Indian River County Inc

The united way foundation is solely focused on building a permanent endowment to forever support the work of united way of indian river county. longterm in scope, the foundation affords donors the opportunity to leave a legacy and extend…

Philanthropy
5
Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc

Together with our donors, we transform our region through bold and proactive philanthropy.

Philanthropy
6
Indiana University Health Jay Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
7
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
8
Riverside Park Conservancy Inc

The mission of the conservancy is to restore, maintain, and improve riverside park

Environment
9
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
10
Riverlife

Riverlife's mission is to create, activate, and celebrate pittsburgh's riverfronts, connecting people through exceptional places and experiences.

Environment
11
Uvmc Foundation

Enhance the patient and family experience at upper valley medical center by raising community support for programs and services which help build healthy communities.

Philanthropy
12
Vilar Performing Arts Center Inc

The purposes and objectives of the vilar performing arts center is to promote and develop awareness of and appreciation of the arts and to educate the general public about the arts through the ownership and operation of a theater by…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indian River Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The New Center. 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

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 15 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,180,769 · PhilanthropyINDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC+2 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyBRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL: $28,900 · OtherUNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $8,000 · OtherST EDWARD'S SCHOOL: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERA: $5,500 · OtherDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $2,500 · OtherRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthThe New Center: $10,000 · Civil RightsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$1,182,769Other$68,400Arts & Culture$11,000Health$10,000Civil Rights$10,000Recreation & Sports$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,180,769 over 1y, 10% of budgetRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Becker Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Becker Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • United Way of Indian River County Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report 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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Becker Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Becker Family Foundation Inc 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.

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 15 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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