Connecticut · 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.
- $98k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Be Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 10 | $98k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $177k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $249k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $502k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $446k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $697k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $255k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $416k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spreadmusicnow Inc | $323,427 | 6 | 94% |
| Connecticut Rise Network Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Gould Academy | $105,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Intempo Organization Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Domus Kids Inc | $49,500 | 1 | 1% |
| The Carver Inc | $47,782 | 4 | 1% |
| Partners for Educational Leadershipinc | $30,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Eddy School | $20,000 | 1 | 49% |
| The National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New Pond Farm Education Center Inc | $12,200 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Be Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 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: 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
How this is measured
About Be Foundation
- How much does Be Foundation give?
- Be Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $98,477 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Be Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (49%), Education (39%), Employment (6%).
- Who are Be Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Spreadmusicnow Inc ($323k), Connecticut Rise Network Inc ($200k), Gould Academy ($105k).
- Does Be Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Be Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Be Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund, New Canaan Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Be Foundation based?
- Be Foundation is based in CT.
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