How much does Beck Family Foundation give?

Beck Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $463,590 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Beck Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (49%), Health (10%), International (8%).

Who are Beck Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Discovery Center of Ohio ($838k), The Christ Hospital Foundation ($460k), New Africa Fund Inc ($200k).

Does Beck Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Beck Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Beck Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Cincinnati, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Columbus Foundation.

Where is Beck Family Foundation based?

Beck Family Foundation is based in OH.

Beck Family Foundation

Beck Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Beck Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$464k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$3.6MHealth$700kInternational$570kPhilanthropy$454kEducation$358kFood & Nutrition$130kHousing & Shelter$106kScience & Tech$80kOther$0

02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k15 grants · $35k
$10k–50k4 grants · $83k
$50k–250k5 grants · $346k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NEW AFRICA FUND	$100,000
TEMPLE BETH EL	$91,790
JEWISH FOUNDATION	$54,000
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION	$50,000
TEMPLE KOL AMI	$50,000
VALLEY TEMPLE	$36,000
TENDER MERCIES	$26,500
HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION	$10,000
CLASSIC LEARJET FOUNDATION	$10,000
27 SANDWICHES INC	$7,500
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY	$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES	$5,000
CINCINNATI CANCER ADVISORS	$5,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND	$3,600
BELOS CAVALOS (CHARITABLE EQUINE EXPERIENTIAL ORGANIZATION)	$2,500

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.8M · 36 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.8M

$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

+6%

Still filing today

56%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

NA
NEW AFRICA FUND INC
2× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue ×82
BC
BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
6× · 2017–2022 · $27k · revenue +4%
DK
DONNA KLEIN JEWISH ACADEMY INC
3× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +127%

Funded once

TR
THE RABBI AARON D PANKEN MEMORIAL FUND
one grant, 2019 · $500k
TC
The Christ Hospital Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $460k · revenue +192%
M2
Matthew 25 Ministries Inc
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -6%

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.

Just Capital Foundation Inc

Just capital's mission is to build a more just economy that works for all americans by helping companies improve how they serve all their stakeholders - workers, customers, communities, the environment, and shareholders - as defined by the…

Social Science

The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health

The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

The foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for parkinson's disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with parkinson's today.

Health

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health

Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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Jaeb Center for Health Research Foundation Inc

Our mission is to expand scientific knowledge and improve public health by designing and conducting world-class clinical trials and epidemiologic research.

Unclassified

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health

Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—

Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Jarc Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Wayne Barton Study Center 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

57 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. 57 of the 100 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

55/57

Grantees still filing

34/57

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$6,090,114Health$508,250International$256,655Philanthropy$185,200Arts & Culture$153,200Education$75,000Human Services$65,750

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

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.

Jewish Federation of CincinnatiOH13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Cincinnati · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Beck Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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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