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Chris and Francesca Beale Private Foundation at a glance

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Chris and Francesca Beale Private 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.

$92k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$66k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.1MHealth$500kInternational$77kEnvironment$50kSocial Science$30kCivil Rights$10kReligion$1kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
$9,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER$65,900
PESTALOZZI US CHILDREN CHARITY INC$12,000
BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC$9,000
SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION$2,500
ALIMA USA INC$2,500
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS$500
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SAG HARBOR CINEMA INC: $6k → 7%MOMS FOR LIBERTY: $10k → 11%AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL SCREEN FOUNDATION INC: $1.0M → 13%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $12k → 17%AUSTIN FILM SOCIETY: $50k → 10%ABT FOUNDATION: $132k → 9%FOUR SYMBOLIC LODGES & CHAPTERS: $50k → 17%AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL SCREEN FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 13%THE FRICK COLLECTION: $9k → 17%AUSTIN FILM SOCIETY: $25k → 10%ABT FOUNDATION: $119k → 9%AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL SCREEN FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 13%ASIA SOCIETY: $4k → 17%AUSTIN FILM SOCIETY: $25k → 10%ABT FOUNDATION: $80k → 9%ASIA SOCIETY: $4k → 17%AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL: $25k → 10%ABT FOUNDATION: $66k → 9%THE ASIA SOCIETY: $3k → 17%THE ASIA SOCIETY: $3k → 17%FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER: $100k → 17%FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER: $97k → 17%THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER: $72k → 17%FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER: $66k → 17%FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER: $61k → 17%AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE: $164k → 17%THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER: $53k → 17%ABT FOUNDATION: $75k → 17%NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY: $6k → 17%AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE: $10k → 17%NY CITY BALLET: $6k → 17%ABT FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%NEW YORK CITY BALLET: $17k → 17%NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY: $5k → 17%BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $9k → 17%PESTALOZZI US CHILDREN CHARITY INC: $12k → 17%PESTALOZZI US CHILDREN'S CHARITY: $12k → 17%PESTALOZZI US CHILDREN'S CHARITY: $10k → 17%PESTALOZZI US CHILDREN'S CHARITY: $10k → 17%PESTALOZZI US CHILDREN'S CHARITY: $10k → 17%PESTALOZZI US CHILDREN'S CHARITY: $5k → 17%NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $20k → 17%NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $10k → 17%BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $4k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA: $13k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA INC: $9k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA: $9k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA INC: $9k → 17%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 97% of Chris and Francesca Beale Private Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Chris and Francesca Beale Private Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 11 repeat orgs$175k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
13

Total granted

$2.6M
$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
+21%

Still filing today

82%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BT
    BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $184k · revenue +10%
  • FS
    Film Society of Austin Inc
    3× · 2018–2023 · $100k · revenue +45%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $39k · revenue +313%

Funded once

  • FS
    Four Symbolic Lodges and Chaptersgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +135%
  • AF
    Austin Film Festival Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +51%
  • Sundance Institute
    one grant, 2017 · $22k · revenue +1%
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
The American Film Institute

The american film institute ("afi") is a national institute providing leadership in screen education and the recognition and celebration of excellence in the art of film, television and digital media.

Arts & Culture
2
Art of Brooklyn Festival

The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival is an annual event that brings Brooklyns celebrated film and media makers together with their peers across the country and around the world. AoBFF is a filmmaker-focused event, platform and showcase for…

Arts & Culture
3
The American Federation of Arts Inc

The american federation of arts initiates and organizes a national and international program of art exhibitions, publications, and educational activities to benefit the museum community and enrich the public's experience and understanding…

Arts & Culture
4
National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Inc

The purpose of the corporation is to promote excellence in film through the public recognition of exceptional filmmaking achievements. the corporation annually screens over 250 feature films and over 60 student-made short films and…

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5
American Friends of the International Foundation Mozarteum
International
6
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts North America Inc

The specific purposes for which bafta na is organized is to promote, maintain, improve and advance original and creative work among individuals employed professionally in film and television production and allied industries, to create and…

Arts & Culture
7
American Cinematheque

The american cinematheque believes that cinema is a communal experience with the power to entertain, enlighten and inspire. we build a diverse and engaged film community through immersive film curation, conversation, and presentation. we…

Arts & Culture
8
Berggruen Institute
Education
9
American Friends of the Shanghai Museum Inc

Founded in 1995, the american friends of the shanghai museum is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to raise awareness and financial support for the shanghai museum, continuing a distinguished history of patron support for…

Arts & Culture
10
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
11
Berkshire International Film Festival Corp

The berkshire international film festival (biff) is for filmmakers and film lovers alike to be entertained, educated and inspired. biff seeks to celebrate independent film and to recognize and pay tribute to accomplished artists on both…

Education
12
American Museum of the Moving Image

See schedule omuseum of the moving image (momi) is the only museum in the u.s. that explores the central technology of the present moment.screens are all around us. we use them to educate, entertain, and communicate. the moving…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Film At Lincoln Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Four Symbolic Lodges and Chapters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL SCREEN FOUNDATION INC: $1,200,000 · Arts & CultureAUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL SCREEN FOUNDATION INCFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $448,425 · Arts & CultureFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INCBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $183,800 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INCFilm Society of Austin Inc: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $64,000 · Arts & CultureABT FOUNDATION: $481,500 · OtherABT FOUNDATIONNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $30,000 · Other+10 more: $65,185 · Other+10 morePESTALOZZI US CHILDRENS CHARITY INC: $59,700 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA INC: $39,050 · InternationalTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $13,000 · InternationalALIMA USA INC: $4,000 · InternationalFour Symbolic Lodges and Chapters: $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $4,100 · Public Safety & DisasterSOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $2,500 · Health
Arts & Culture$1,996,225Other$576,685Philanthropy$59,700International$56,050Environment$50,000Public Safety & Disaster$4,100Health$2,500

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 budgetAUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL SCREEN FOUNDATION INC: $1,200,000 over 3y, 97% of budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $448,425 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $183,800 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFilm Society of Austin Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPESTALOZZI US CHILDRENS CHARITY INC: $59,700 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA INC: $39,050 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSundance Institute: $22,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $16,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $8,915 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $4,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALIMA USA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $500 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.

National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Chris and Francesca Beale Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chris and Francesca Beale Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–5%
    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 Chris and Francesca Beale Private Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Chris and Francesca Beale Private 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 26 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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