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Beck Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$226k
Granted FY2019
69
Grants FY2019
16
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$2.4MInternational$307kHuman Services$95kHealth$78kPhilanthropy$70kEducation$67kHousing & Shelter$51kCommunity Improvement$25kOther$0
02FY2019 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k65 grants · $163k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
$2,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUTHERAN CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES$20,000
HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUND$16,500
WOMEN'S CARE CLINIC$16,500
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY$10,000
MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE$8,000
BROOKSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH$8,000
KOKOMO RESCUE MISSION$7,000
FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES$7,000
NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN CHURCH$7,000
PURDUE UNIVERSITY$6,000
INDIANA FAMILY INSTITUTE$5,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
HOPE FAMILY CARE CENTER$5,000
TRUTH AT WORK$5,000
FAMILY LIFE TODAY$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SHELTERING WINGS: $1k → 5%MISSION GUATEMALA: $1k → 10%LUTHERAN CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 16%SALEM 4 YOUTH: $500 → 12%SHELTERING WINGS: $1k → 5%MISSION GUATEMALA: $1k → 10%WHITES RESIDENTIAL & FAMILY SERVICE: $2k → 12%KOKOMO RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 15%LUTHERAN CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 16%SALEM 4 YOUTH: $500 → 12%SHELTERING WINGS: $1k → 5%KOKOMO RESCUE MISSION: $7k → 15%LUTHERAN CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 16%SALEM 4 YOUTH: $500 → 12%KOKOMO RESCUE MISSION: $7k → 15%TURNING POINT SOC: $250 → 15%HEART CHANGE MINISTRIES INC: $500 → 16%PREVAIL: $2k → 5%WHEELER MISSION: $6k → 16%WHEELER MISSION: $6k → 16%WHEELER MISSION: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$792k · 46 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2019, 5 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
20

Total granted

$792k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+6%

Still filing today

46%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Human ServicesReligionInternationalHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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

  • LF
    LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $268k · revenue +164%
  • LC
    LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF IN/KY INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +73%
  • KR
    KOKOMO RESCUE MISSION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $24k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • FC
    FAITH CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • WR
    WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +214%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Feed the Hunger Inc

Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.

2
Freedom in Christ Ministries

To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.

Religion
3
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion
4
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
5
International Commission Inc

Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.

Religion
6
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.

International
7
But God Ministries

Sharing the love of jesus christ by building sustainable communities around the world and providing medical care to low-income households in the united states. the organization is currently building two sustainable communities in haiti and…

International
8
Child Hope International

We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.

Arts & Culture
9
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
10
The Wellspring Group

Wellspring provides a discipleship model for individuals and churches to engage as a part of their overall spiritual development. this is done through retreat and small group experiences and through equipping churches and organizations to…

Religion
11
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

12
Reaching International

Reaching the marketplace with the gospel of the kingdom of god through local/regional gatherings with business leaders, small business alliance groups and multigenerational mentoring programs for businesses.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is White's Residential & Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Health CentersCancer Support OrganizationsYouth Development CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Senior Support ServicesHomeless Services & ShelterUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Animal Rescue and AdoptionFood Pantries & AssistanceChild and Family ServicesDevelopmental Disabilities …Christian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr13%7%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr14%27%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr23%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr13%1%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr14%56%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr23%19%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/62
the rest of the field
10%
4,323/41,933

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.

04the grantee network

50 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 94 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
41/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LEGACY FUND HAMILTON CO — $68,129 · OtherLEGACY FUND HAMILTON COWOMEN'S CARE CLINIC — $31,500 · OtherWOMEN'S CARE CLINICIndividual grant recipient — $25,374 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUND — $23,500 · OtherHAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDFOCUS ON THE FAMILY — $20,000 · OtherMOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE — $19,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $18,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY — $18,000 · OtherLUTHERWOOD — $15,000 · OtherFAMILY LIFE TODAY — $15,000 · Other+47 more — $160,400 · Other+47 moreLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC — $268,000 · InternationalLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INCFREEDOM INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES — $24,000 · InternationalFREEDOM INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES+4 more — $13,000 · InternationalLUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF IN/KY INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN CH…KOKOMO RESCUE MISSION INC — $24,000 · Human ServicesKOKOMO RESC…WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $17,000 · Human ServicesWHEELER MIS…+8 more — $12,750 · Human Services+8 moreTRUTH AT WORK INC — $15,000 · ReligionNARROW GATE HORSE RANCH INCORPORATED — $7,500 · ReligionFinishline Ministries Inc — $3,000 · ReligionCross America Inc — $2,500 · Religion+4 more — $3,500 · ReligionHOPE FAMILY CARE CENTER — $7,000 · HealthRIVERVIEW HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC D/B/A RIVERVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION — $6,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $5,750 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Health+1 more — $500 · HealthBRIDGES OUTREACH INC — $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $4,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TIPTON COUNTY — $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentMilk and Honey Outreach Ministries Inc — $4,500 · EducationPATRICK HENRY COLLEGE — $3,500 · EducationSTUDENTS FUND OF HOPE — $1,500 · Education
Other$414,403International$305,000Human Services$93,750Religion$31,500Health$21,250Youth Development$16,500Education$9,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC — $268,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF IN/KY INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKOKOMO RESCUE MISSION INC — $24,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFREEDOM INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES — $24,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC — $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRUTH AT WORK INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFARMHOUSE FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGES OUTREACH INC — $8,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHOPE FAMILY CARE CENTER — $7,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetRIVERVIEW HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC D/B/A RIVERVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSELF-HELP INTERNATIONAL — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $5,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMilk and Honey Outreach Ministries Inc — $4,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TIPTON COUNTY — $4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPATRICK HENRY COLLEGE — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFinishline Ministries Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSHELTERING WINGS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCross America Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMission Guatemala Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE'S RESIDENTIAL & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSALEM CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNADEGE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSEED PROGRAMS INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJANUS DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROWING HOPE GLOBALLY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOD BEHIND BARS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana State Fair Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBUCKINGHAM FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA FAMILY FOR EVERY ORPHAN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAGAPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING RESOURCES — $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEART CHANGE MINISTRIES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCELEBRATE LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT - SYSTEMS OF CARE — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC
  • Who funds LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF IN/KY INC
  • Who funds KOKOMO RESCUE MISSION INC
  • Who funds FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES
  • Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds TRUTH AT WORK INC
  • Who funds FARMHOUSE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BRIDGES OUTREACH INC
  • Who funds NARROW GATE HORSE RANCH INCORPORATED
  • Who funds HOPE FAMILY CARE CENTER
  • Who funds RIVERVIEW HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC D/B/A RIVERVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SELF-HELP INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds INDIANA FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS
  • Who funds COMPASS ROSE ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES

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.

Hamilton County Community Foundation IncIN19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Samerian Foundation Inc · Word & Deed Foundation of IMMI Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Community Foundation of Howard County · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Indiana Youth Institute Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc

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 Beck Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Beck Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Beck Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 94 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $681k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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