· Private foundation
The Behr Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
54% of The Behr Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Northern Il, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Behr Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $54k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k10 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC | $11,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH-EL | $10,700 |
| ANDERSON JAPANESE GARDENS | $10,000 |
| ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM | $5,100 |
| MARSH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| MIAMI CITY BALLET | $3,000 |
| PILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING AR | $2,000 |
| LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| THE WICK THEATRE & COSTUME MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| PIONEER CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES | $500 |
| GOLD COAST DOWN SYNDROME | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BRBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $121k · revenue +44%
- AGANDERSON GARDENS7× · 2018–2024 · $72k · revenue +74%
- TPTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC3× · 2018–2023 · $13k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- KCKRAVIS CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTSone grant, 2017 · $3k
- PGPILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL (JOAN STONECIPHER EDUCATIONAL FUND)one grant, 2017 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
We deliver a healthcare experience that consistently exceeds patients' expectations through exceptional people - our people are our foundation. we employ trusted, dedicated professionals who serve with compassion, empathy and respect.…
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
The foundation was established to promote, by donation, loan or otherwise, educational programs, scientific research, treatment facilities, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, housing centers, human services programs and other charitable…
The parkinson council is the premier local organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with parkinson's, their care partners, and families. we invest in research, education, and programs provided by world-renowned…
The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
To improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.
The mission of burnett medical center is to provide compassionate, comprehensive, community healthcare that exceeds our customer's expectations. our mission, as well as our vision and values, serves as a guideline for daily decision making…
The bakken museum inspires a passion for innovation by exploring the potential for science, technology, and the humanities to make the world a better place.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rosecrance Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gold Coast Down Syndrome Org Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON GARDENS ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Northern IL ↗
- Who funds PILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOLD COAST DOWN SYNDROME ORG INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Wick Theatre & Costume Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD DANCE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds BAINBRIDGE ISLAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Pioneer Center for Human Services ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · Community Foundation of Northern IL · The Ben Harding Family Foundation · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Sjostrom & Sons Foundation · Amended and Restated Brubaker Charitable Trust · Blazer Foundation · United Way of Rock River Valley · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Behr Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.