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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.

$544k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$1.4MEnvironment$364kRecreation & Sports$294kHuman Services$229kHealth$203kArts & Culture$155kFood & Nutrition$94kPhilanthropy$84kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $391k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAREWAYS COLLABORATIVE$65,000
BELOIT COLLEGE ANNUAL FUND$45,000
WESTMINSTER SCHOOL$43,000
JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$40,000
KEAWAYDIA FOUNDATION$30,000
VIRGINIA OPERA$25,000
FIRST TEE VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE$25,000
COLBY COLLEGE$20,000
COLGATE UNIVERSITY$16,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$16,000
BEGIN AGAIN FOUNDATION$15,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$15,000
HARPSWELL HERITAGE LAND TRUST$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
CURTIS MEMORIAL LIBRARY$11,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE LEXINGTON FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%PROJECT LINUS: $3k → 8%UNCHAINED AT LAST: $5k → 10%BEGIN AGAIN FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%BEGIN AGAIN FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%BEGIN AGAIN FOUNDATION: $11k → 10%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $5k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $2k → 9%EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $9k → 17%EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $8k → 17%EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $8k → 17%EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $6k → 17%EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 17%EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 17%EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $3k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
WA
MT
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
WY
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
NC
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 54 repeat orgs$474k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +43% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
37

Total granted

$2.5M
$341k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+43%

Still filing today

67%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $263k · revenue +10%
  • CU
    COLGATE UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $121k · revenue +80%
  • The President and Trustees of Colby College
    7× · 2017–2024 · $107k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • FR
    FIRST REE VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE
    one grant, 2022 · $35k
  • TS
    The Sakonnet Preservation Association Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -90%
  • SA
    STRONG ACADEMY
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
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
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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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
University of New Haven

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…

Education
4
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
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
Wheaton College

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…

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
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
9
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

—
10
Wilson College

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

Education
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Sisters School; 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.
04the grantee network

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
47/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BELOIT COLLEGE ANNUAL FUND: $276,500 · OtherBELOIT COLLEGE ANNUAL FUNDCAREWAYS COLLABORATIVE: $168,000 · OtherCAREWAYS COLLABORATIVETHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $107,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR: $65,000 · OtherTHIRTEENWNET: $63,500 · OtherFIRST TEE VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE: $52,000 · Other+50 more: $651,008 · Other+50 moreTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $263,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INCCHESAPEAKE SPORTS CLUB: $180,000 · EducationCHESAPEAKE SPORTS CLUBCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $121,000 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVERSITYThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $106,500 · EducationThe President and Trustees of Colby CollegeThe Trustees of Princeton University: $102,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton UniversityOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $72,000 · EducationOUR SISTERS SCHOOLBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $62,500 · EducationHORACE GREELEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $56,500 · EducationVMI Foundation: $52,500 · Education+8 more: $185,500 · Education+8 moreHarpswell Heritage Land Trust: $49,500 · EnvironmentBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $38,000 · EnvironmentWESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $35,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY: $21,500 · EnvironmentNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT: $7,000 · Environment+1 more: $2,000 · EnvironmentCub Creek Foundation Inc: $30,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $20,000 · Arts & CultureARTS COUNCIL OF THE VALLEY: $16,000 · Arts & CultureCONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM: $11,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SHAKESPEARE CENTER: $7,000 · Arts & CultureNEW BEDFORD LIGHT: $6,000 · Arts & CultureMAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureBegin Again Foundation: $46,000 · Human ServicesEPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $43,000 · Human ServicesBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $7,000 · Human ServicesUNCHAINED AT LAST INC: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE MOUNT KISCO INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $63,500 · PhilanthropyZIMS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyROCKBRIDGE AREA FREE CLINIC INC: $30,000 · HealthSILENT SPRING INSTITUTE INC: $25,150 · HealthTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $12,500 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $10,000 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · Health
Other$1,383,008Education$1,201,500Environment$153,500Arts & Culture$122,000Human Services$106,000Philanthropy$88,500Health$84,650

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $263,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE SPORTS CLUB: $180,000 over 5y, 46% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $121,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $107,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $106,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $102,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $72,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MOUNT KISCO INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $63,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $62,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHORACE GREELEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $56,500 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetVMI Foundation: $52,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHarpswell Heritage Land Trust: $49,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBegin Again Foundation: $46,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetEPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $43,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWICH ACADEMY INC: $38,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $38,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $35,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetIsland Institute: $32,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCub Creek Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetROCKBRIDGE AREA FREE CLINIC INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSILENT SPRING INSTITUTE INC: $25,150 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFenway High School Fund CO Fenway High School: $25,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetThe Sakonnet Preservation Association Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY: $21,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMid Coast Hunger Prevention Program: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF THE VALLEY: $16,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE T'AI CHI CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetZIMS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetRESIST INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLASGOW LIFE SAVINGS & FIRST AID CREW INC: $11,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetCONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM: $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHETERODOX ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOSE COMPANY NO 4 INC: $9,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMENDHAM BOROUGH LIBRARY: $9,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN SHAKESPEARE CENTER: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 GREENWICH ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
  • Who funds WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds Island Institute ↗
  • Who funds Cub Creek Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROCKBRIDGE AREA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds THE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SILENT SPRING INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Fenway High School Fund CO Fenway High School ↗
  • Who funds The Sakonnet Preservation Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY ↗
  • Who funds Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncMaine Community Found…Tad Beck FundGe Aerospace Foundati…The Community Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity FoundationImpactassetsincJewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…
Boston Foundation IncMA20.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Edmund Beck Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edmund Beck Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 103 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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