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The Jack & Deborah Becker Foundation at a glance

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The Jack & Deborah 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.

$95k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$118kEducation$110kReligion$75kHealth$46kCivil Rights$20kArts & Culture$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kFood & Nutrition$1k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$300k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BECKER-GALLANT CHARITABLE FUND$40,000
MARJORIE BECKER AND PETER BURACK CHARITABLE FUND$40,000
BET TORAH$10,000
NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL$5,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 26% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $5k → 10%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $4k → 10%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%BECKER-GALLANT CHARITABLE FUND: $40k → 9%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%BARNARD COLLEGE: $4k → 17%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $3k → 10%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%BECKER-GALLANT CHARITABLE FUND: $18k → 9%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%BET TORAH: $10k → 9%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%BET TORAH: $10k → 9%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%BET TORAH: $10k → 9%BET TORAH: $10k → 9%BET TORAH: $10k → 9%BET TORAH: $9k → 9%NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL: $5k → 9%NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL: $5k → 9%NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL: $5k → 9%NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL: $5k → 9%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $4k → 17%NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL: $5k → 9%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3k → 17%NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL: $5k → 9%NYU LANGONE HEALTH: $4k → 17%NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL: $5k → 9%THE DALTON SCHOOL: $4k → 17%NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL: $5k → 9%MARJORIE BECKER AND PETER BURACK CHARITABLE FUND: $40k → 9%BET TORAH: $4k → 9%MARJORIE BECKER AND PETER BURACK CHARITABLE FUND: $18k → 9%BET TORAH: $3k → 9%HORACE GREELEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $7k → 9%BET TORAH: $3k → 9%HORACE GREELEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $6k → 9%HORACE GREELEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5k → 9%HORACE GREELEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $3k → 9%HORACE GREELEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $3k → 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$309k · 11 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
9

Total granted

$309k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+16%

Still filing today

64%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • NW
    NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +94%
  • HG
    HORACE GREELEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    6× · 2017–2022 · $25k · revenue +71%
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    6× · 2018–2023 · $20k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +86%
  • DS
    DALTON SCHOOLS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +16%
  • NL
    NYU LANGONE HEALTH
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
7
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
8
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
9
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
12
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brown University; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

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 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BET TORAH: $67,800 · OtherBET TORAHMARJORIE BECKER AND PETER BURACK CHARITABLE FUND: $57,500 · OtherMARJORIE BECKER AND PETER BURACK CHARITABLE FUNDBECKER-GALLANT CHARITABLE FUND: $57,500 · OtherBECKER-GALLANT CHARITABLE FUNDJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA: $7,000 · Other+5 more: $5,900 · OtherHORACE GREELEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $25,300 · EducationHORACE GREELEY SCHOLARSH…Trustees of Tufts College: $19,500 · EducationTrustees of Tufts Colleg…BARNARD COLLEGE: $11,500 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGECOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $11,000 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVERSITYTrustees of Dartmouth College: $11,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth Co…DALTON SCHOOLS INC: $3,500 · EducationNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $42,500 · HealthNORTHERN WES…BROWN UNIVERSITY: $28,500 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $20,000 · Civil RightsMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $6,728 · Arts & CultureJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyHILLSIDE FOOD OUTREACH INC: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$195,700Education$81,800Health$42,500Community Improvement$28,500Civil Rights$20,000Arts & Culture$8,728Philanthropy$3,000Food & Nutrition$1,000

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 budgetNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $42,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $28,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHORACE GREELEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $25,300 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $19,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $6,728 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSIDE FOOD OUTREACH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HORACE GREELEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds DALTON SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLSIDE FOOD OUTREACH INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Jack & Deborah Becker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jack & Deborah Becker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Jack & Deborah Becker Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Jack & Deborah Becker 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 22 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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