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Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$29M
Granted FY2025still arriving
294
Grants FY2025still arriving
35
States reached
$3.7M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Science & Tech$192MEducation$38MHealth$21MRecreation & Sports$640kArts & Culture$535kYouth Development$284kEnvironment$271kPhilanthropy$173kOther$0
02FY2025 · 294 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k80 grants · $209k
  • $10k–50k110 grants · $2.7M
  • $50k–250k92 grants · $12M
  • $250k+12 grants · $16M
$26,000
Median grant
35
States reached
$775M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FULFILL: $200 → 6%FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF NORTH FLORIDA INC: $3k → 14%FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF NORTH FLORIDA INC: $3k → 14%FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF NORTH FLORIDA INC: $3k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $5k → 14%FIFTYFORWARD: $5k → 14%HUMAN OPTIONS INC: $10k → 10%INTERVAL HOUSE: $20k → 14%INTERVAL HOUSE: $10k → 14%CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $10k → 10%CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $10k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$217M · 165 repeat orgs$19M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

165
107

Total granted

$217M
$18M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+15%

Still filing today

55%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureAnimalsScience & TechHuman ServicesOther
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

  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +19%
  • UO
    University of Michigan
    3× · 2022–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +92% · 26% of their budget
  • KA
    KIDS AT SCIENCE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +9% · 100% of their budget

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $6.1M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $3.1M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $2.0M
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
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
2
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
3
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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4
The George Washington University

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…

Education
5
Manhattanville University

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

Education
6
Augustana College

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…

Education
7
University of the Pacific

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.

Education
8
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
9
Pacific University

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.

Education
10
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

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…

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11
Point Park University

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…

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc San Diego Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

185 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. 185 of the 324 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
182/185
Grantees still filing
119/185
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEE GRANT DETAILS ATTACHED: $129,434,667 · OtherSEE GRANT DETAILS ATTACHEDBECKMAN INSTITUTE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $15,003,780 · OtherBECKMAN INSTITUTE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISCALTECH BECKMAN INSTITUTE: $14,512,895 · OtherCALTECH BECKMAN INSTITUTESTANFORD BECKMAN CENTER: $9,829,520 · Other+119 more: $46,748,063 · Other+119 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $8,786,170 · EducationTHE BOARD OF T…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,450,837 · EducationMassachusetts …TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,989,076 · EducationTRUSTEES OF TH…Baylor College of Medicine: $1,950,000 · EducationBaylor College…CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1,474,703 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University: $1,439,649 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,385,000 · EducationKIDS AT SCIENCE: $1,200,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $1,160,000 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $1,140,000 · EducationCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,128,700 · Education+45 more: $7,465,066 · Education+45 moreFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $1,020,000 · HealthThe Broad Institute Inc: $724,000 · HealthMISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $250,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $152,123 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $150,000 · Health+4 more: $100,000 · HealthThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $450,000 · Science & TechCARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON: $96,247 · Science & TechSegerstrom Center for the Arts: $320,450 · Arts & CultureYosemite Climbing Association: $155,000 · Arts & CultureStory & Song Center for Arts & Culture: $27,500 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $21,500 · Arts & CultureJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC: $310,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University: $179,686 · Recreation & SportsGRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY: $255,200 · EnvironmentLABSTART INNOVATIONS INC: $15,000 · Environment
Other$215,528,925Education$31,569,201Health$2,396,123Science & Tech$546,247Arts & Culture$544,450Recreation & Sports$489,686Environment$270,200

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $8,786,170 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,450,837 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,989,076 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $1,950,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $1,754,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1,474,703 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $1,439,649 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,385,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS AT SCIENCE: $1,200,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $1,160,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $1,140,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $1,052,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $1,020,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $895,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $724,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $696,784 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $532,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $461,340 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $456,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $450,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $414,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $332,974 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSegerstrom Center for the Arts: $320,450 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC: $310,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY: $255,200 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetREED INSTITUTE: $252,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAD CHANGES: $207,500 over 4y, 19% of budgetORANGE COUNTY SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FAIR INC: $200,000 over 4y, 62% of budgetNorthwestern University: $179,686 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE: $156,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $156,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $156,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $156,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $156,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity University: $156,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYosemite Climbing Association: $155,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $153,777 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $152,123 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $148,979 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $130,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $107,000 over 2y, 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Orange County Communi…Community Foundation …O L Halsell FoundationJewish Community Foun…Edwards Lifesciences …Hca Healthcare Founda…The Kavli FoundationLouise B Wallace Foun…The Rayonier Advanced…The Ayco Charitable F…Sempra FoundationDorothy Cate and Thom…
Orange County Community FoundationCA22.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

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 324 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home