· Private foundation
Edmund Beck 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $391k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAREWAYS COLLABORATIVE | $65,000 |
| BELOIT COLLEGE ANNUAL FUND | $45,000 |
| WESTMINSTER SCHOOL | $43,000 |
| JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| KEAWAYDIA FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| FIRST TEE VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE | $25,000 |
| VIRGINIA OPERA | $25,000 |
| COLBY COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $16,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $16,000 |
| BEGIN AGAIN FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| HARPSWELL HERITAGE LAND TRUST | $15,000 |
| CURTIS MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $11,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TOTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $263k · revenue +10%
- CUCOLGATE UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $121k · revenue +80%
The President and Trustees of Colby College7× · 2017–2024 · $107k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- FRFIRST REE VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGEone grant, 2022 · $35k
- TSThe Sakonnet Preservation Association Incone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -90%
- VMVIRGINIA MILITARY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
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…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Sisters School and the most unlike its peers is Horace Greeley Scholarship Fund. 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.
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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
63 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 103 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE SPORTS CLUB ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT KISCO INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HORACE GREELEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds VMI Foundation ↗
- Who funds Harpswell Heritage Land Trust ↗
- Who funds Begin Again Foundation ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
- Who funds ROCKBRIDGE AREA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cub Creek Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SILENT SPRING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds The Sakonnet Preservation Association Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Fenway High School Fund CO Fenway High School ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Tad Beck Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation
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 Edmund Beck Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Silent Spring Institute Inc — 12% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/a Concord Museum — 1% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 0% of income from government
- Blair Academy — 0% of income from government
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.