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The Henry E Becker and Pauline S Becker Charitable 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.

$7.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.

Health$3.1MHuman Services$2.9MCommunity Improvement$1.7MYouth Development$1.6MScience & Tech$1.2MFood & Nutrition$575kArts & Culture$546kEnvironment$478kInternational$410kOther$5.3M
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $300k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+6 grants · $5.0M
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAY PARK CONSERVANCY$1,483,000
EASTER SEALS SOUTHWEST FLORIDA$1,075,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SW FLORIDA$1,000,000
KESSLER FOUNDATION$650,000
DOLPHIN BIOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE$386,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES$381,000
SARASOTA AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL COALITION$201,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$200,000
SARASOTA YOUTH SAILING$145,000
SAFE PLACE & RAPE CRISIS CENTER (SPARCC)$125,000
HISTORIC SOCIETY OF FLORIDA$110,000
FLORIDA VETERANS FOR COMMON SENSE$100,000
BIG WATERS LAND TRUST$100,000
SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$100,000
FLORIDA OCEAN ALLIANCE$100,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, 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.

area typical 10%SHELTER BOX USA: $100k → 10%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $650k → 4%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $640k → 4%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $600k → 4%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $550k → 4%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $80k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $80k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $75k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $75k → 10%RESURRECTION HOUSE: $25k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 29 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
12

Total granted

$16M
$776k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
0%

Still filing today

79%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsInternationalOther

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

  • TB
    The Bay Park Conservancy Inc
    2× · 2022–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +555%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +133%
  • DB
    DOLPHIN BIOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $966k · revenue +131% · 44% of their budget

Funded once

  • SC
    SUNCOAST COMMUNITIES BLOOD BANK INC DBA SUNCOAST BLOOD CENTERS
    one grant, 2021 · $130k · revenue -12%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS
    one grant, 2021 · $118k
  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS
    one grant, 2024 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Suncoast Partnership to End Homelessness

Lead agency in the community for providers of homeless/prevention services in manatee/sarasota. responsible to plan strategies with community partners, assist with grants, educate the public, advocate with local leadership, administer the…

Human Services
2
The Florida Aquarium Inc

The Florida Aquarium's mission focuses on our Shared Purpose of a commitment to save marine wildlife, with a Vision to be Florida's leading conservation-based Aquarium. It accomplishes this mission through hosting over 1 million visitors…

Animals
3
Conservation Florida Inc

Conservation florida's mission is to permanently protect florida's water, wildlife, and wild places - the places that make florida home.

Environment
4
Sea to Shore Alliance

Research, education and conservation work to improve the health & productivity of coastal envirmonments for endangered species & human livlihoods that depend on them.

—
5
Florida State Parks Foundation Inc

Florida state parks foundation preserves, protects, sustains and grows florida state parks.

Recreation & Sports
6
Mote Marine Laboratory Inc

The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…

—
7
Captains for Clean Water Inc

To advance education, awareness, and scientifically supported solutions to restore and protect marine ecosystems and our way of life for future generations.

Environment
8
The Everglades Trust Inc

To preserve america's everglades and florida bay as natural resources.

—
9
Symbioseas

Marine research

Science & Tech
10
Suncoast Humane Societyinc

Our mission is to encourage, honor and support the human-animal bond in the suncoast region of florida. our vision is to celebrate a community whose pets are safe and loved. suncoast humane society provides sheltering, prevention and…

Animals
11
Realtor Association of Sarasota and Manatee Inc

The mission of the realtor association of sarasota and manatee is to advance members' professionalism through delivery of education and resources, and to advocate for real estate in the communities served.

—
12
Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful

To promote a culture of environmental stewardship through volunteer and educational opportunities.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Marine Sanctuary Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Minorities in Shark Sciences 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 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr15%31%35–55yr14%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr15%23%35–55yr14%30%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/46
the rest of the field
12%
2,513/20,564

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.

04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 59 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
23/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SW FLORIDA — $2,100,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SW FLORIDATEEN COURT — $330,000 · OtherCONSERVATION FOUNDATION GULF COAST — $300,000 · OtherSARASOTA AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL COALITION INC — $501,000 · OtherSARASOTA AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL COALITIO…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $250,000 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION INC — $342,000 · OtherTHRONE OF GRACE MINISTRIES INC — $260,000 · OtherSARASOTA YOUTH SAILING INC — $245,000 · Other+32 more — $2,423,500 · Other+32 moreEaster Seals Southwest Florida Inc — $2,075,000 · HealthEaster Seals Southw…SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 · HealthSARASOTA MEMORIAL H…Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — $210,000 · HealthSafe Place and Rape…PINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION INC — $190,000 · HealthPINES OF SARASOTA F…SUNCOAST COMMUNITIES BLOOD BANK INC DBA SUNCOAST BLOOD CENTERS — $130,000 · Health+2 more — $150,000 · HealthKessler Foundation Inc — $2,440,000 · Human ServicesKessler Foundation…Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — $310,000 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Guide…SHELTERBOX USA INC — $100,000 · Human Services+2 more — $55,000 · Human ServicesThe Bay Park Conservancy Inc — $1,683,000 · Community ImprovementThe Bay Pa…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC — $1,501,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND …Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentDOLPHIN BIOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $966,000 · Science & TechFLORIDA OCEAN ALLIANCE INC — $200,000 · Science & TechALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC — $375,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC — $200,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$6,751,500Health$3,055,000Human Services$2,905,000Community Improvement$1,683,000Youth Development$1,561,000Science & Tech$1,166,000Food & Nutrition$575,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKessler Foundation Inc — $2,440,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetEaster Seals Southwest Florida Inc — $2,075,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetThe Bay Park Conservancy Inc — $1,683,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC — $1,501,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetDOLPHIN BIOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $966,000 over 6y, 44% of budgetSARASOTA AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL COALITION INC — $501,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC — $375,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION INC — $342,000 over 4y, 43% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc — $310,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHRONE OF GRACE MINISTRIES INC — $260,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSARASOTA YOUTH SAILING INC — $245,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSafe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — $210,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSUNCOAST WATERKEEPER INC — $200,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetFLORIDA OCEAN ALLIANCE INC — $200,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION INC — $190,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetAgape Flights Inc — $160,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetSUNCOAST COMMUNITIES BLOOD BANK INC DBA SUNCOAST BLOOD CENTERS — $130,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBig Waters Land Trust Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEnvironmental Conservancy of North Port Inc — $100,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetChildren First Inc — $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSARASOTA BAY WATCH INC — $78,000 over 1y, 81% of budgetNATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStreets of Paradise Inc — $65,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc — $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMANA-SOTA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetEMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC — $45,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetRESURRECTION HOUSE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Gulf Coast Community …Manatee Community Fou…The Louis and Gloria …William G and Marie S…Charles & Margery Bar…Mote Scientific Found…Msc Foundation IncSeidman Family Founda…The Tillie Jennie & H…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Harry Sudakoff Founda…
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL47.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Mote Scientific Foundation Inc Pratt · Msc Foundation Inc · Seidman Family Foundation · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Harry Sudakoff 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 Henry E Becker and Pauline S Becker Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 220%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Children First Inc — 100% of income from government
  • National Marine Sanctuary Foundation — 88% of income from government
  • Kessler Foundation Inc — 54% of income from government
  • Selah Freedom Inc — 53% of income from government
  • Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc — 12% of income from government
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Meals On Wheels Plus of Manatee Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children — 0% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
22get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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How do I get to The Henry E Becker and Pauline S Becker Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Henry E Becker and Pauline S Becker Charitable Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 59 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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