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Beal Family 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.

$6.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Science & Tech$6.0MSocial Science$4.0MEducation$3.0MArts & Culture$1.2MHealth$1.0MPhilanthropy$64kRecreation & Sports$38kPublic Benefit$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $250k+2 grants · $6.0M
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$41k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE$4,000,000
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$2,000,000
SHED NYC INC$25,000
WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION$20,000
MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION$10,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$6,000
SOCCER UNITY PROJECT$2,500
BOSTON LGBTQ MUSEUM OF ART HISTORY$2,500
LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE$2,500
CATHOLIC CHARITIES BOSTON$2,500
WILAHMENAS PLACE INC$2,500
PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION$2,000
URBAN LEAGUE OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS$2,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MATTAPAN$2,000
GIRL'S LEAP$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $2k → 17%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $2k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.7M · 12 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
17

Total granted

$5.7M
$252k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+57%

Still filing today

58%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

  • CA
    CONCORD ACADEMY
    5× · 2018–2022 · $3.0M · revenue +17%
  • TI
    TEAM IMPACT INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +181%
  • UC
    UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEW YORK CITY INC
    2× · 2018–2022 · $20k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $86k · revenue +58%
  • CT
    CREATIVE TIME INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -5%
  • TF
    TEAM FIRSTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +298%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
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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3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
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
5
Manhattanville University

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

Education
6
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
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
10
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Impact Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr21%24%10–20yr20%26%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr12%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr21%11%10–20yr20%1%20–35yr13%1%35–55yr12%87%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
12%
5,952/50,439

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.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 51 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
21/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College — $6,000,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeCONCORD ACADEMY — $3,000,000 · EducationCONCORD ACADEMY+4 more — $44,500 · EducationBENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE — $4,000,000 · OtherBENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTENEW YORK - PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL — $910,000 · OtherNEW YORK - PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITALIndividual grant recipient — $600,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+25 more — $126,600 · OtherSHED NYC INC — $1,050,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $86,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $55,500 · Arts & CultureTEAM IMPACT INC — $75,000 · PhilanthropyENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $6,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $4,000 · PhilanthropyChildren's Hospital Corporation — $25,000 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $20,000 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 · HealthTEAM FIRST — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsLEAP SELF-DEFENSE INC — $2,000 · Recreation & SportsWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION — $20,000 · Science & Tech
Education$9,044,500Other$5,636,600Arts & Culture$1,191,500Philanthropy$110,000Health$50,000Recreation & Sports$27,000Science & Tech$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $6,000,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD ACADEMY — $3,000,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetSHED NYC INC — $1,050,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $86,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM IMPACT INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCREATIVE TIME INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTEAM FIRST — $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPREP FOR PREP — $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON HARBOR NOW INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SPORTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JIMI GUBELLI FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetEXPLORING THE ARTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOCCER UNITY PROJECT INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGAVIN FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAP SELF-DEFENSE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF EASTERN MASSCHUSETTS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAPPIN FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOP ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFONTAINEBLEAU ASSOCIATIONS — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…Boston Charitable Tru…Arbella Insurance Fou…Combined Jewish Phila…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…
Boston Foundation IncMA21.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer 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 Beal Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
  • Boston Harbor Now Inc — 45% of income from government
  • Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp — 32% of income from government
  • Gavin Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Soccer Unity Project Inc — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Beal Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Beal Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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