· Private foundation
Be Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTEMPO | $40,000 |
| MARK TWAIN LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| THE EDDY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| GEORGETOWN VILLAGE RESTORATION | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF REDDING | $5,000 |
| SOCIAL VENTURES PARTNERS INC | $5,000 |
| SPREADMUSICNOW INC | $2,127 |
| CTDATA COLLABORATIVE | $1,000 |
| CONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC (CT MIRROR) | $300 |
| REDDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA | $50 |
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 (FY17–20, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 24% of Be Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- SISPREADMUSICNOW INC6× · 2018–2024 · $323k · revenue +9% · 94% of their budget
- CRCONNECTICUT RISE NETWORK INC2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue +29%
- TCTHE CARVER INC4× · 2017–2020 · $48k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- FCFAIRFIED COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION COLLECTIVE IMPACT OPPORTUNITY FUNDone grant, 2021 · $85k
- DKDOMUS KIDS INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -2%
- PFPARTNERS FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIPINCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +94%
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.
Readyct works to advance academic excellence and career-connected learning for all public school students in connecticut through collaboration with business, civic, and education leaders.
Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.
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 peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Seeks to ensure that every student in america graduates from (continued on schedule o) high school with the literacy skills necessary for success in college and career. ldc is a teacher-created instructional design system that transforms…
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
The organization has its mission as an alliance that mobilizes community resources to provide opportunities and services that foster educational success for all greenwich public schools students.
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
Thetford academy is an independent school community with a public purpose. our mission is to celebrate the unique worth of all students, nurture their strengths, and challenge them to fulfill their potential.
Connecticut humanities champions the enduring value of public humanities in our lives and civil society. through grant funding and capacity building, cth strives to ensure the public humanities will continue to inspire storytelling,…
The Avery Coonley School elevates high-achieving and gifted learners through immersion in a mutually talented community where intellect, curiosity, and creativity are enhanced by optimal challenge.
To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Achieve Hartford Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chapman Hyperlocal Media Inc. 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.
23 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. 23 of the 45 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
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 SPREADMUSICNOW INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RISE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds GOULD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds INTEMPO ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOMUS KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARVER INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIPINC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDDY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW POND FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF REDDING EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds Redding Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds CTDATA COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Chapman Hyperlocal Media Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NORWALK ART SPACE INC ↗
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Travelers Foundation · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Grace Jones Richardson Testamentary Trust C/O Piedmont Trust Co · Newman's Own Foundation · Ritter Family Foundation · Lone Pine Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · Dalio Foundation Inc
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 Be 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Ctdata Collaborative — 35% of income from government
- Connecticut Council for Philanthropy — 24% of income from government
- The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
- United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc — 11% of income from government
- Domus Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
- Partners for Educational Leadershipinc — 2% of income from government
- Intempo Organization Inc — 2% of income from government
- Connecticut Rise Network Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Norwalk Art Space Inc — 1% 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.