Massachusetts · Private foundation
Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $166k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 90
- Grants FY2025
- 86
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $28,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 86 to 101
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 88 | $165k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 86 | $148k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 96 | $162k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 88 | $185k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 97 | $268k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 93 | $182k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 97 | $187k | 12% |
| FY2018 | 101 | $206k | 19% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Mountain Club | $83,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Maine Coast Heritage Trust | $76,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc | $64,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Williams College | $57,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc | $47,420 | 9 | 0% |
| Conservation Law Foundation Inc | $43,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Concord Academy | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| New England Conservatory of Music | $31,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Home for Little Wanderers Inc | $31,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Peabody Essex Museum Inc | $25,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 104 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 79 recipients with no EIN on record ($833k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee
- How much does Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee give?
- Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee reported 90 grants totaling $165,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 86 and 101 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (20%), Education (18%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Appalachian Mountain Club ($83k), Maine Coast Heritage Trust ($76k), Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc ($64k).
- Does Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee 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 Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Fidelity Foundation.
- Where is Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee based?
- Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee is based in MA.
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