California · Private foundation
The Charles A Becker Foundation
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.
- $33k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,519
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations The Charles A Becker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $33k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $106k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $49k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $96k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $201k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $195k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $82k | 56% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $154k | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco Conservatory of Music | $177,600 | 7 | 0% |
| Sojourn to the Past | $163,256 | 6 | 2% |
| Voice of Witness a Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation | $125,102 | 5 | 6% |
| 100cameras | $124,474 | 4 | 30% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of San Francisco | $72,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Slide Ranch | $25,350 | 1 | 1% |
| Boldly Me | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| School of the Madeleine | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Art To Change The World Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Employment Training | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco Conservatory of Music | $177,600 | 7 | 0% |
| Sojourn to the Past | $163,256 | 6 | 2% |
| Voice of Witness a Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation | $125,102 | 5 | 6% |
| 100cameras | $124,474 | 4 | 30% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of San Francisco | $72,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Slide Ranch | $25,350 | 1 | 1% |
| Boldly Me | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| School of the Madeleine | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Art To Change The World Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Employment Training | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Francisco Jazz Organization | $3,450 | 1 | 0% |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | $1,440 | 4 | 0% |
| Dove Lewis Emergency Animal Hospital Inc | $1,350 | 2 | 0% |
| OneSight | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Institute for Nonprofit News | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Youth in Arts | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Central Coast State Parks Association | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums | $358 | 2 | 0% |
| Tides Inc | $325 | 1 | 0% |
| San Francisco Zoological Society | $269 | 2 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Conservancy | $52 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($296k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Charles A Becker Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
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About The Charles A Becker Foundation
- How much does The Charles A Becker Foundation give?
- The Charles A Becker Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $33,374 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Charles A Becker Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Civil Rights (12%), Youth Development (12%).
- Who are The Charles A Becker Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: San Francisco Conservatory of Music ($178k), Sojourn to the Past ($163k), Voice of Witness a Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation ($125k).
- Does The Charles A Becker Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Charles A Becker 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 The Charles A Becker Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is The Charles A Becker Foundation based?
- The Charles A Becker Foundation is based in CA.
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