California · Nonprofit
BEHRING GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
BEHRING GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,828,417 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($15,190,106). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $35M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $0
What Behring Global Educational Foundation does
Mission
The foundation is dedicated to providing leadership, oversight, partnership development, and coordination of worldwide wheelchair deliveries as well as supporting various education, health, food and museum programs around the world. The foundation is leading an international effort to create awareness of the needs and abilities of people with physical disabilities, to promote the joy of giving, create global friendship, and to deliver a wheelchair to every child, teen, and adult in the world who needs but cannot afford one.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
During 2022, the foundation delivered 27,899 wheelchairs to needy individuals worldwide.
$3,416,348 spentof which $2,869,825 as grants38% of program spendingThe blackhawk museums merged with global educational foundation as of january 1, 2015. The museum is located in danville, california. The museums include an automotive museum, established to ensure that significant automotive treasures would be exhibited for public enjoyment and educational enrichment. There is also a museum housing the spirit of the old west exhibit, which presents both native american and american settlers way of life. Other exhibits opened in 2017 were into china, west lives on and art of africa. The preservation of culture and environment are intergal to this exhibit. It includes art, fine craftsmanship, symbolic decorations, an extensive collection of masks, musical instruments and much more...
$2,696,027 spentof which $64,245 as grants$648,403 earned by the program30% of program spendingDuring 2022, the foundation participated in preparing and setting up world animal exhibitions in china and united states museums to promote education, environmental protection, and ensure harmonious coexistence between human beings and animals.
$1,659,335 spentof which $802,231 as grants19% of program spendingOther program services 4: the blackhawk museums merged with global educational foundation as of january 1, 2015. The museum is located in danville, california. The museums include an automotive museum, established to ensure that significant automotive treasures would be exhibited for public enjoyment and educational enrichment. There is also a museum housing the spirit of the old west exhibit, which presents both native american and american settlers way of life. Other exhibits opened in 2017 were into china, west lives on and art of africa. The preservation of culture and environment are intergal to this exhibit. It includes art, fine craftsmanship, symbolic decorations, an extensive collection of masks, musical instruments and much more...
$1,113,571 spentof which $1,108,212 as grants13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,885,281.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $225M to $0 (−100%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $34k → $104k.
12 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BEHRING GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BEHRING GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BEHRING GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 100% · 2019 96% · 2020 70% · 2021 34% · 2022 44% · 2023 43% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of BEHRING GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
98% of BEHRING GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $317k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like BEHRING GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
22%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Part of a family of 11 related entities
- Lmw Classic Cars LLC · disregarded
- Patricia R Behring Foundation · exempt
- Blackhawk Collection Investments LLC · partnership
- Blackhawk Services · corp_trust
- The Blackhawk Collection · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BEHRING GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- BEHRING GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,828,417 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($15,190,106). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BEHRING GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $15,828,417 in grants to BEHRING GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEHRING GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $15,190,106 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEHRING GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2020–2022), and the filings of 17 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing