· Private foundation
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k80 grants · $209k
- $10k–50k110 grants · $2.7M
- $50k–250k92 grants · $12M
- $250k+12 grants · $16M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BECKMAN INSTITUTE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $3,681,000 |
| CALTECH BECKMAN INSTITUTE | $3,681,000 |
| STANFORD BECKMAN CENTER | $2,564,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $1,923,000 |
| UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| UCI BECKMAN LASER INSTITUTE AND MEDICAL CLINIC | $641,000 |
| RESEARCH CORPORATION FOR SCIENCE ADVANCEMENT | $600,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON | $334,585 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $326,685 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $310,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN | $310,000 |
| KIDS AT SCIENCE | $300,000 |
| BECKMAN INSTITUTE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $240,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $211,392 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $166,978 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
165 repeat relationships — 119 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BCBaylor College of Medicine4× · 2022–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +19%
- UOUniversity of Michigan3× · 2022–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +92% · 26% of their budget
- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY2× · 2022–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +15%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $6.1M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3.1M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2.0M
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sculpted Light in the Brain Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
185 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 185 of the 324 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds KIDS AT SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
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.
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
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 Arnold and Mabel Beckman 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Sussex County Habitat for Humanity — 23% of income from government
- Marine Biological Laboratory — 20% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- Reed Institute — 1% of income from government
- Emmanuel College — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Family Support Services of North Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Amelia Island Museum of History Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.