· Private foundation
The Besche Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Marys School Bryantown | $1,500 |
| WETA | $1,000 |
| Center for a Healthy MD | $700 |
| Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens | $150 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 39% of The Besche Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 30% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 15%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KCKIDNEY CANCER COALITION KIDNEYCAN2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue ×13
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $6k · revenue +25%
- GWGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2019–2025 · $2k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- BBEATKCORGone grant, 2018 · $5k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +23%
- SMSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +9%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 KIDNEY CANCER COALITION KIDNEYCAN ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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- Who funds SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR A HEALTHY MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDENS ↗
- Who funds SUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Besche Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Besche Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Center for a Healthy Maryland Inc: 7% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Suburban Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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