Skip to content
Beck Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Beck Family Charitable Foundation

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.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$79kHealth$40kScience & Tech$34kFood & Nutrition$32kInternational$18kCommunity Improvement$12kAnimals$8kEnvironment$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,325
Median grant
6
States reached
$251k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY USA$8,850
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION$6,638
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC$5,850
THE I FUND$2,325
BREAD OF THE MIGHTY FOODBANK$2,325
THE FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION$2,212
HANDS-ON-GAINESVILLE$2,000
GRACE MARKETPLACE$2,000
PIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,200
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHARITY WATER: $2k → 17%THE ARC OF ALACHUA COUNTY: $6k → 19%THE ARC OF ALACHUA COUNTY: $5k → 19%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
PA
CA
AZ
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$210k · 14 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
17

Total granted

$210k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
0%

Still filing today

57%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
HealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentEducationScience & TechOther
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

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $67k · revenue +75%
  • EF
    Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +24%
  • TZ
    THE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +178%

Funded once

  • BO
    BEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -11%
  • NI
    NumFOCUS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +65%
  • FC
    FISHER CENTER FOR
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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
Florida International University Research Foundation Inc

The fiu research foundation provides means by which discoveries, inventions, processes, and work products of faculty, staff and students of the university may be patented, developed, applied and utilized in order that the results of such…

Science & Tech
2
Florida International University Foundation Inc

To encourage, solicit, receive and administer gifts and bequests of property and funds for scientific, educational and charitable purposes, all for the advancement of florida international university and its objectives (see schedule o for…

Education
3
Usf Research Foundation Inc

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

Education
4
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
5
Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy
6
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,…

—
7
Bioflorida Inc

From concept to consumer, bioflorida is the premier source for supporting the florida life sciences industry. we provide comprehensive resources and advocacy, while fostering a thriving community that leads in innovation and groundbreaking…

—
8
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
9
The Florida Aquarium Inc

The Florida Aquarium's mission focuses on our Shared Purpose of a commitment to save marine wildlife, with a Vision to be Florida's leading conservation-based Aquarium. It accomplishes this mission through hosting over 1 million visitors…

Animals
10
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
11
University of Florida Leadership and Education Foundation Inc

The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively to receive, hold, invest, and administer property and to make expenditures to or for the benefit of the university of florida. more specifically, the foundation is organized to…

Public Benefit
12
The Arc Tampa Bay Foundation Inc

To secure the financial future of services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities served by the arc tampa bay, inc. (continued on schedule o)this mission is accomplished through a comprehensive plan of building…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc; the most unlike its peers is Charity Global 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

21 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. 21 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $20,238 · OtherElectronic Frontier Foundation IncTHE I FUND: $18,075 · OtherTHE I FUNDBREAD OF THE MIGHTY FOOD BANK INC: $18,025 · OtherBREAD OF THE MIGHTY FOOD BANK INCUNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY USA: $12,975 · OtherUNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY USAHANDS ON GAINESVILLE INC: $8,000 · OtherHANDS ON GAINESVILLE INCHARMONY VET CARE: $5,310 · Other+16 more: $32,899 · Other+16 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $67,250 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOU…THE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $18,312 · HealthTHE ZACHARY …BEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING: $6,000 · HealthBEADS OF COU…Ronald McDonald House Global: $2,560 · HealthRonald McDon…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,031 · HealthFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $13,825 · Food & NutritionGreen Book of Tampa Bay Inc: $9,700 · Community ImprovementLake Street Council: $2,750 · Community ImprovementTHE ARC OF ALACHUA COUNTY INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesNumFOCUS INC: $5,500 · Science & Tech
Other$115,522Education$67,250Health$27,903Food & Nutrition$13,825Community Improvement$12,450Human Services$12,000Science & Tech$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $67,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $20,238 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $18,312 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBREAD OF THE MIGHTY FOOD BANK INC: $18,025 over 8y, 12% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $13,825 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF ALACHUA COUNTY INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNumFOCUS INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLake Street Council: $2,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $2,560 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFlorida Native Plant Society Inc: $1,875 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE RIVERS LEGAL SERVICES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,031 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Strays Inc: $1,031 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.

United Way of North C…Community Foundation …Pinellas Community Fo…Community Foundation …The Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of North Central Florida IncFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of North Central Florida Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Florida · Pinellas Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Beck Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Beck Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Florida Humanities Council Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Alachua Conservation Trust Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Beck Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Beck Family Charitable 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 33 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Beck Family’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home