· Private foundation
Bean Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEFFERSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 509J | $102,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| DARLENE URBACH MEMORIAL YOUTH FUND | $33,200 |
| ST CHARLES FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| MOSAIC MEDICAL | $10,000 |
| MAC TRUST | $7,500 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY YOUNG LIFE | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| AIRSHOW OF THE CASCADES | $5,000 |
| HIGH DESERT COMMUNITY THEATRE GUILD | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of your 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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 6 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k 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
- MCMOSAIC COMMUNITY HEALTH3× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +39%
- JCJEFFERSON COUNTY FAITH BASED NETWORK3× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +12%
- WSWARM SPRINGS COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM3× · 2017–2019 · $7k · revenue ×13
Funded once
- COCENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $410k
- JCJEFFERSON COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATone grant, 2020 · $25k
- CPCULVER PARK TRUSTone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
To provide a balanced diet and food to the needy in Josephine County, Oregon.
To provide transportation, meals and other social services to senior citizens in the communities of jefferson county, oregon.
Saving the heritage of jefferson county,
To preserve the area's history and to teach the public about the area's culture, heritage, and history
Provide food to those in need.
Provide food assistance to low income families
Education about Josephine County history and preservation of historical artifacts.
The mission of the museum is to chronicle, protect, preserve, and educate to strengthen the historic culture of jefferson.
Community food pantry
Food bank - provide food to those in need.
Providing nutritious food to low income families and individuals in south clatsop county
The mission of the Cave Junction Farmers Market is to support our local community of farmers and families by providing a vibrant marketplace for all to gather around in support of healthy food, meaningful arts and continuing education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madras Community Food Pantry and the most unlike its peers is Perfect Balance Usa Perfect Balance Usa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 58 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 MOSAIC COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY FAITH BASED NETWORK ↗
- Who funds St Charles Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WARM SPRINGS COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM ↗
- Who funds MADRAS COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PERFECT BALANCE USA Perfect Balance USA ↗
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: The Roundhouse Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Bean Foundation Inc 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.
- Warm Springs Community Action Team — 28% of income from government
- Mosaic Community Health — 8% 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.
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