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Beanstalk Foundation

To promote acts of generosity within our communities by supporting everyday heroes, called leaders, with funding, education and administrative support.

$90k
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
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 2022.

Crime & Legal$178kCivil Rights$50kEmployment$25kHousing & Shelter$16kEducation$16kHealth$13kPhilanthropy$6kHuman Services$5k
02FY2022 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $32,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $90,364 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $58,364 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Home Trust of Ouray County$16,000
Onward A Legacy Foundation$10,000
United Way of Eagle River$6,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Hour Children: $5k → 13%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.
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 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
Urban Outreach Denver

Urban Outreach Denver exists to connect people to God and to a community of support by caring for both short-term and long-term needs in the areas of food, clothing, shlter, medical care, education and job preparation.

Human Services
2
Elevated Community Development Corporation

Training and jobs for exoffenders

Employment
3
Huerfano County Economic Development Inc

Promotion of economic development, support local business, provide housing and business support, collaboration of government programs

Community Improvement
4
Bayaud Enterprises Inc

Bayaud enterprises was founded in 1969 to alleviate barriers to self-sufficiency for adults living with mental health, intellectual and physical disabilities. soon after, bayaud expanded services to single adults who are rebuilding from…

Employment
5
Valley Life for All

Creating access to resources by connecting opportunities for people of all disabilities, their families and communities, from Aspen to Parachute.

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6
Flatirons Habitat for Humanity Community Development Inc

The Organization was formed to develop and provide permanent, affordable housing for low-income families and individuals in the Boulder Valley School District RE-2 and Broomfield County.

Housing & Shelter
7
Colorado Access Foundation
Health
8
Project Return Inc

People who have just been released from prison are typically stigmatized, overlooked, and pigeonholed by society. when they walk into project return, they discover that here they are valued, heard, and encouraged. while reduction of…

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9
Bryant Homes Inc

Transitional Living Services for ex-offe

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10
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…

Crime & Legal
11
Roots Colorado Inc

Cultivate intentional workspaces for the neurodivergent population to gain meaningful, integrated and equitable employment

Employment
12
Innovated Opportunity

Community reentry

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hour Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Home Trust of Ouray County. 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc: $178,400 · Crime & LegalBreakthrough Alliance of Colorado IncCOLORADO CROSS DISABILITY COALITION: $50,000 · OtherCOLORADO CROSS DISABIL…Courageous Women Fearless Liv: $12,672 · OtherCourageous Women Fearl…BELAY ENTERPRISES INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementBELAY ENT…Home Trust of Ouray County: $16,000 · Housing & ShelterONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF EAGLE RIVER VALLEY: $6,000 · PhilanthropyACADEMY OF URBAN LEARNING: $5,766 · Youth DevelopmentHOUR CHILDREN INC: $5,475 · Human Services
Crime & Legal$178,400Other$62,672Community Improvement$25,000Housing & Shelter$16,000Education$10,000Philanthropy$6,000Youth Development$5,766Human Services$5,475

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBreakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc: $178,400 over 2y, 34% of budgetCOLORADO CROSS DISABILITY COALITION: $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetBELAY ENTERPRISES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHome Trust of Ouray County: $16,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetONWARD A LEGACY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAGLE RIVER VALLEY: $6,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHOUR CHILDREN INC: $5,475 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Mile High United Way IncCO14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mile High United Way Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Beanstalk Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Beanstalk Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Beanstalk Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Beanstalk 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $114k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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