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Beard Foundation Inc at a glance

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Beard Foundation Inc

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.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$120kArts & Culture$72kAnimals$37kHealth$36kInternational$16kSocial Science$3kPhilanthropy$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$400
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$55k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART$15,000
THE FLORIDA AQUARIUM$10,000
CARDIOSTART INTERNATIONAL$5,000
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA: $1k → 12%FL COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC ED: $1k → 13%LABRADOR RETRIEVER RESCUE: $1k → 13%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 13%FL COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC ED: $1k → 13%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $11k → 13%FL COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC ED: $1k → 13%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $11k → 13%TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART: $23k → 13%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $11k → 13%TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART: $20k → 13%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $11k → 13%TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART: $15k → 13%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 13%THE FLORIDA AQUARIUM: $10k → 13%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 13%TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 13%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 13%THE FLORIDA AQUARIUM: $10k → 13%GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 13%THE FLORIDA AQUARIUM: $5k → 13%THE FLORIDA AQUARIUM: $5k → 13%THE FLORIDA AQUARIUM: $5k → 13%TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER: $2k → 13%TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 13%SOWGF: $1k → 13%THE FLORIDA AQUARIUM: $500 → 13%PEPIN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%CARDIOSTART INTERNATIONAL: $6k → 13%CARDIOSTART INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 13%CARDIOSTART INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 13%THE GOLD SHIELD FOUNDATION: $200 → 13%THE GOLD SHIELD FOUNDATION: $200 → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDAT: $25k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDAT: $10k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDAT: $10k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%MOFFIT CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $250 → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$279k · 8 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +132% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$279k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+132%
+39%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthAnimalsSocial ScienceOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +116%
  • TM
    TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $69k · revenue +797%
  • University of South Florida Foundation Inc
    4× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +132%

Funded once

  • TT
    THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +39%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • S
    SOWGF
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
Tampa Museum of Art Foundation Inc

Maintain and raise funds for the benefit of the tampa museum of art, inc.

Arts & Culture
2
The Florida State University Foundation Inc

The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…

Education
3
University of Miami
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4
Usf Research Foundation Inc

To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.

Education
5
Florida Education and Arts Trust
Philanthropy
6
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
7
Florida Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc

Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.

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8
Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc

To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…

Education
9
Florida Research Center for Agricultural Sustainability Inc
Philanthropy
10
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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11
The Everglades Foundation Inc

The mission of the foundation is to restore and protect america's everglades through its three programmatic pillars: science, advocacy and education. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
12
Florida Polytechnic University Foundation Inc

Established to help sustain the mission of florida polytechnic university to educate students emphasizing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (stem) in an innovative, technology-rich, and interdisciplinary learning environment.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tampa General Hospital Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pepin Family 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 14 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $73,770 · EducationGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INCUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc: $46,000 · EducationUniversity of South Florida Foundation IncTAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC: $68,800 · Arts & CultureTAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $35,660 · HealthTAMPA GENERAL …The Florida Aquarium Inc: $35,500 · AnimalsThe Florida Aq…CARDIOSTART INTERNATIONAL INC: $16,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyFLORIDA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION INC: $3,000 · Social ScienceIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherSOWGF: $1,000 · OtherGOLD SHIELD FOUNDATION INC: $400 · OtherMOFFIT CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $250 · OtherTHE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER: $2,000 · Environment
Education$119,770Arts & Culture$69,800Health$35,660Animals$35,500Philanthropy$16,500Social Science$3,000Other$2,650Environment$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $73,770 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC: $68,800 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc: $46,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $35,660 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetThe Florida Aquarium Inc: $35,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCARDIOSTART INTERNATIONAL INC: $16,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFLORIDA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEPIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGOLD SHIELD FOUNDATION INC: $400 over 2y, 0.3% 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.

Borrell Family Founda…Thomas A & Mary S Jam…The Saunders Foundati…Frank E Duckwall Foun…Lightning FoundationPublix Super Markets …Raymond James Charita…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Borrell Family Foundation IncFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Borrell Family Foundation Inc · Thomas A & Mary S James Foundation · The Saunders Foundation · Frank E Duckwall Foundation · Lightning Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Beard Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Beard Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Tampa Museum of Art Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Florida Aquarium Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 14 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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