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Beirne Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$45k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$115k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Beirne Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$45k33%
FY20232$15k0%
FY20223$20k0%
FY20217$30k14%
FY20205$21k20%
FY20196$39k50%
FY201820$48k65%
FY201712$21kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$99kEducation$45kArts & Culture$41kPhilanthropy$23kInternational$7kReligion$5kCommunity Improvement$5kCivil Rights$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
CA
DC
LA
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Memorial Hermann Foundation$98,70080%
Houston Grand Opera Association Inc$40,45050%
St Thomas High School$13,5003n/a
The Junior League of Houston Inc$5,00010%
Spring Hill College$3,50010%
Japan-America Society of Houston$1,50010%
St Mary's University$1,50010%
Strake Jesuit College Prep$1,0001n/a
Catholic Charities Inc$1,00010%
Rc Activities Inc$1,0001n/a
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All grantees of Beirne Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Memorial Hermann Foundation$98,70080%
Houston Grand Opera Association Inc$40,45050%
St Thomas High School$13,5003n/a
The Junior League of Houston Inc$5,00010%
Spring Hill College$3,50010%
Japan-America Society of Houston$1,50010%
St Mary's University$1,50010%
Strake Jesuit College Prep$1,0001n/a
Catholic Charities Inc$1,00010%
Rc Activities Inc$1,0001n/a
Meals on Wheels$7502n/a
Avda$50010%
Opus Bono Sacerdotii$50010%
Anti-Defamation League$50010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$10010%

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($70k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Beirne Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMemorial Hermann Foundation: $98,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $40,450 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Junior League of Houston Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpring Hill College: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJapan-America Society of Houston: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSt Mary's University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAvda: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpus Bono Sacerdotii: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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About Beirne Foundation

How much does Beirne Foundation give?
Beirne Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $45,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Beirne Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (41%), Education (19%), Arts & Culture (17%).
Who are Beirne Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Memorial Hermann Foundation ($99k), Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ($40k), St Thomas High School ($14k).
Does Beirne Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Beirne Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Beirne Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Strake Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation.
Where is Beirne Foundation based?
Beirne Foundation is based in TX.

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 31 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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