· Private foundation
Fletcher Beacon Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
Anchored by a single position — about 93% of reported assets are held in Bank Of America Equities.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TURNING POINT USA | $12,000 |
| CATHOLIC MEMORIAL SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| MUSIC INSTRUMENT MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| HEALTH FREEDOM DEFENSE FUND | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE FUND | $2,000 |
| RUSTY'S ANGELS SANCTUARY | $2,000 |
| AUGUSTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR BEHAVIORAL | $2,000 |
| AZ HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| ST THERESA OF AVILA SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| INDEPENDENT COUNCIL ON WOMEN'S | $2,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $2,000 |
| ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S | $1,500 |
| GILLY'S HOUSE | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% 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 +27% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- TPTURNING POINT USA INC2× · 2024–2025 · $14k · revenue +36%
- MIMUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM4× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +83%
- SWSOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER2× · 2022–2023 · $8k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $2k
- GPGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INCone grant, 2024 · $1k
- SJST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPTIALone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
Advancing the practice and securing the future of anesthesiology through medical education, creation and dissemination of new knowledge, improvement of patient care, and legislative and regulatory advocacy.
The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
The american society for clinical investigation seeks to support the scientific efforts, educational needs, and clinical aspirations of physician-scientists to improve the health of all people.
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Empowering scientists to understand life and improve health by advancing and communicating discoveries in physiology and medicine.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance Defending Freedom and the most unlike its peers is Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. 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 23 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) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 13% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 48 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 TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEALTH FREEDOM DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RUSTY S ANGELS SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE ADD IMPACT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Gillys House Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds CASA KANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT COUNCIL ON WOMENS SPORTS ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SURVIVORS INC ↗
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: Baird Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Fletcher Beacon Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% 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.
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