· 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Heal LA Foundation | $10,519 |
| Cal Poly Arts | $7,948 |
| San Francisco Conservatory of Music | $7,100 |
| Sojourn To the Past | $4,300 |
| Hearst Castle Foundation | $2,455 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Los Angeles Conservancy | $52 |
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 (FY17–21, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +37% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 15 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- STSOJOURN TO THE PAST6× · 2017–2025 · $163k · revenue ×14
- VOVOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION5× · 2017–2021 · $125k · revenue +1%
- 1100cameras4× · 2019–2022 · $124k · revenue +74% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- SRSLIDE RANCHone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -41%
- SOSCHOOL OF THE MADELEINEone grant, 2017 · $10k
- ATArt To Change The World Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +113%
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.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
The museum of sonoma county engages and inspires our diverse community with art and history exhibitions, collections, and public programs that are inclusive, educational, and relevant.
The sacramento zoo inspires appreciation, respect and a connection with wildlife and nature through education, recreation and conservation.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Conserving nature through science and discovery.
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 45 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 SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURN TO THE PAST ↗
- Who funds VOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds 100cameras ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds SLIDE RANCH ↗
- Who funds BOLDLY ME ↗
- Who funds Art To Change The World Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING ↗
- Who funds ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds DOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds OneSight ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS ↗
- Who funds Youth in Arts ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COAST STATE PARKS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds TIDES INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Charles A Becker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles A Becker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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