California · Private foundation
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $29M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 294
- Grants FY2025
- 164
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $26,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,681,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 166
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 35
- Total assets, FY2025
- $775M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 156 | $25M | 24% |
| FY2024 | 164 | $23M | 36% |
| FY2023 | 106 | $30M | 42% |
| FY2022 | 166 | $29M | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $31M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $27M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $21M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $26M | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor College of Medicine | $1,950,000 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Michigan | $1,754,000 | 3 | 26% |
| University of California San Francisco | $1,632,849 | 2 | n/a |
| California Institute of Technology | $1,474,703 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Utah | $1,456,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $1,439,649 | 3 | 0% |
| University of California Santa Barbara | $1,399,485 | 2 | n/a |
| Kids at Science | $1,200,000 | 4 | 100% |
| University of Washington | $1,173,165 | 3 | n/a |
| University of Chicago | $1,160,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 199 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 110 recipients with no EIN on record ($203M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 161 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · O L Halsell Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Kavli Foundation · Louise B Wallace Foundation 19702 · The Rayonier Advanced Materials Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation with peer funders
About Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
- How much does Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation give?
- Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation reported 294 grants totaling $29,456,470 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 166 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (76%), Education (15%), Health (8%).
- Who are Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Baylor College of Medicine ($1.9M), University of Michigan ($1.8M), University of California San Francisco ($1.6M).
- Does Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Community Foundation Boulder County, O L Halsell Foundation.
- Where is Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation based?
- Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation is based in CA.
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