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Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of BEARD FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST JOHN E BEARD TRUSTEE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k83 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $22,750 |
| WILLIAM COLLEGE ALUMNI FUND | $10,000 |
| CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB | $10,000 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $10,000 |
| PHILLPS ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| NO KID HUNGRY | $4,500 |
| PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM | $4,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $3,500 |
| HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS | $3,000 |
| SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES | $3,000 |
| BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $3,000 |
| CAMDEN CONFERENCE | $3,000 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FDN | $2,400 |
| WBUR | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
129 repeat relationships — 77 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 9 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Appalachian Mountain Club8× · 2017–2024 · $73k · revenue +32%
Maine Coast Heritage Trust7× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +106%- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC7× · 2017–2023 · $58k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +31%
- CMCOASTAL MAINE BOTANIC GARDENone grant, 2018 · $4k
- FPFIRST PARISH LINCOLNone grant, 2018 · $4k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
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.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
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…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations and the most unlike its peers is The Aflac Foundation 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.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
97 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. 97 of the 176 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 Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMDEN CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Stevenson Family Charitable Trust · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I · The Ausolus Trust · Richard K Lubin Family 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 Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee 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.
- New England Forestry Foundation Inc — 88% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp — 32% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Manomet Inc — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc — 11% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
- From the Top Inc — 6% of income from government
- Actors' Shakespeare Project — 6% of income from government
- Radius Ensemble Incorporated — 5% of income from government
- Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- Native Plant Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Boston Lyric Opera Company — 3% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- The Orion Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- A Far Cry Inc — 1% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fuller Craft Museum Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% 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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