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Beckett Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Beckett Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$350kHealth$60kCivil Rights$10kHuman Services$5k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hampden Sydney College$25,000
St Judes Children's Reaserch Hospital$25,000
The Tunnel to Tower Foundation$20,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%The Brookwood School: $20k → 10%The Tunnel to Tower Foundation: $20k → 11%St Judes Children's Reaserch Hospital: $25k → 17%Meredith College: $20k → 8%Lees McRae College: $30k → 21%Brookwood School: $20k → 20%Randolph Macon College: $20k → 5%Roanoke College: $25k → 8%Blue Ridge School: $15k → 8%Christchurch School: $10k → 9%Hampden Sydney College: $25k → 20%Fisher House Foundation: $5k → 8%The Tunnel to Tower Foundation: $5k → 11%St Judes Children's Reaserch Hospital: $20k → 17%Lees-McRae College: $25k → 21%Roanoke College: $20k → 8%Blue Ridge School: $10k → 8%Hampden-Sydney College: $25k → 20%St Judes Children's Reaserch Hospital: $10k → 17%Roanoke College: $20k → 8%Hampden Sydney College: $20k → 20%St Judes Children's Reaserch Hospital: $5k → 17%Hampden Sydney College: $15k → 20%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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$325k · 7 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$325k
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+19%

Still filing today

71%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

  • HC
    HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE
    4× · 2020–2025 · $85k · revenue +8%
  • LC
    LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +27%
  • TB
    THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $25k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • BROOKWOOD SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +7%
  • BS
    BROOKWOOD SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +19%
  • MEREDITH COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -2%
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
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Rollins College

Education and Public Service Mission: Rollins College educates students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, empowering graduates to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers. We are committed to liberal arts ethos and…

Education
4
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
5
Bosque School

To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.

Education
6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
8
Randolph College Inc

See detailed description of organization's primary mission provided on schedule o

Education
9
Rocky Mountain College

Rocky mountain college educates future leaders through liberal arts and professional programs that cultivate critical thinking, creative expression, ethical decision making, informed citizenship, and professional excellence.

Education
10
The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

Education
11
Bennett College

To offer women an education conducive to excellence in scholarly pursuits, preparation for leadership roles in the workplace, society, and the world, and life-long learning in a technologically advanced, complex global society.

Education
12
The Browning School

A college preparatory school for boys instilling the pursuit of academic excellence, a lifelong love of learning, the belief in the dignity of the individual, the development of personal integrity, and a responsibility to the broader…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Blue Ridge School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation. 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE: $85,000 · EducationHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGEROANOKE COLLEGE: $65,000 · EducationROANOKE COLLEGELEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC: $55,000 · EducationLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INCTHE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC: $25,000 · EducationTHE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INCSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONBROOKWOOD SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $20,000 · EducationBROOKWOOD SCHOOL INCORPORATEDBROOKWOOD SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · EducationBROOKWOOD SCHOOL INCMEREDITH COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationMEREDITH COLLEGERANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationRANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE+1 more: $5,000 · EducationSt Judes Children's Reaserch Hospital: $60,000 · OtherSt Judes Children's Re…Sheltering Arms Institute: $10,000 · OtherSheltering Arms Instit…Christchurch School: $10,000 · OtherChristchurch SchoolFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATIO…
Education$340,000Other$85,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROANOKE COLLEGE: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKWOOD SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKWOOD SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEREDITH COLLEGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChesapeake Academy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Beckett Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Beckett Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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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