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The Henry E Becker and Pauline S Becker Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$7.8MRecreation & Sports$1.9MYouth Development$1.6MAnimals$1.5MEnvironment$1.2MFood & Nutrition$693kArts & Culture$656kPhilanthropy$480kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
TEEN COURT$100,000
LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY$100,000
MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS$100,000
SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 +164%
  • 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 -18%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS
    one grant, 2021 · $118k
  • FF
    Foundation for Morristown Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +46%
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.

04Its field

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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Marine Sanctuary Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFLORIDA OCEAN ALLIANCE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 64% 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 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 budgetChildren First Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBig Waters Land Trust Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEnvironmental Conservancy of North Port Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 20% 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
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Henry E Becker and Pauline S Becker Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Henry E Becker and Pauline S Becker Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 220%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 59 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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