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Florence S Beecher Fdn

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.

$556k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$833kHealth$707kRecreation & Sports$470kEducation$451kPhilanthropy$419kHuman Services$245kCivil Rights$95kFood & Nutrition$92kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $246k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $297k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART$75,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKR$62,000
COLEMAN HEALTH SERVICES$60,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$50,000
BEATITUDE HOUSE$50,000
MAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$25,000
CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC$25,000
PANORAMA GLOBAL$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
THE EXPANSION PROJECT$25,000
ACTBLUE CHARITIES INC$25,000
YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORP$20,500
YWCA$20,000
UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE$20,000
MILL VALLEY PHILHARMONIC$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MARINLINK: $5k → 8%CLOTHED IN STRENGTH: $5k → 19%MARINLINK: $3k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%COMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 19%HOPE HOUSE VISITATION CENTER: $10k → 19%HOPE HOUSE VISITATION CENTER: $10k → 19%POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT: $20k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
VA
MD
DC
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 27 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
33

Total granted

$2.5M
$774k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
0%

Still filing today

59%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $244k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsReligionOther

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

  • BI
    BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART
    7× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +75%
  • MV
    MAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    6× · 2018–2025 · $145k · revenue +105%
  • BH
    BEATITUDE HOUSE INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • AC
    ALTA CARE GROUP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +73%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $75k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Central Philadelphia Development Corporation C/O Center City District

To strengthen the competitiveness of center city philadelphia as an attractive place to work, to visit, and to live to enhance center city as the vibrant hub of the greater philadelphia region through research, planning, advocacy, and…

Arts & Culture
2
Children and Youth Justice Center

The center for children & youth justice was founded in 2006 with one mission: reform the child welfare and juvenile justice systems to improve the lives of generations of children and youth in washington state. our focus is large-scale,…

Crime & Legal
3
Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement
4
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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5
Capitol Commission Inc

To minister to the capitol community and to government leaders in states across the nation.

Religion
6
American Council of Young Political Leaders

Acypl's mission is to design and conduct bilateral and multilateral international educational exchanges designed to promote mutual understanding, respect, and friendship and to cultivate long-lasting relationships among tomorrow's global…

International
7
Bucks-Mont Collaborative

Goal:to be a catalyst for action, engaging members and the broader community to foster a cohesive and effective health and human services system in montgomery and bucks counties.

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8
United Way of Central Ohio Inc

United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…

Philanthropy
9
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
10
Center for Global Development

Reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world's top decision makers. we focus on the intersection of developing countries and the governments, institutions…

Human Services
11
United Way of Bucks County

United way of bucks county creates opportunities for quality education, financial stability, and good health to ensure real, lasting change for individuals and our communities.

Philanthropy
12
Community Justice Project

To provide high quality civil legal assistance and other services to indigent individuals and families.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youngstown State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Berkeley Public Schools Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%8%<5yr12%5%5–10yr21%10%10–20yr14%28%20–35yr16%10%35–55yr20%39%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%8%<5yr12%4%5–10yr21%5%10–20yr14%12%20–35yr16%7%35–55yr20%65%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/46
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,260

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.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 75 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/44
Grantees still filing
25/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MILL CREEK METROPARKS — $290,000 · OtherMILL CREEK METROPARKSYSU FOUNDATION — $250,000 · OtherYSU FOUNDATIONAKRON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL — $175,000 · OtherAKRON CHILDRENS HOSPITALBEATITUDE HOUSE INC — $135,000 · OtherBEATITUDE HOUSE INCAKRON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL BEHAVIOR HEALTH — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherCarnegie Mellon University — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $75,000 · Other+42 more — $730,500 · Other+42 moreBUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART — $280,000 · Arts & CultureBUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMER…HENRY H STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM ASSOC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY H STAMBAUGH AUDITO…MAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $145,000 · Arts & CultureMAHONING VALLEY HISTORIC…YOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY — $50,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCI…OH WOW THE ROGER & GLORIA JONES CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR SCIENCE & TECH — $50,000 · Arts & CultureOH WOW THE ROGER & GLORI…CALIFORNIA JAZZ CONSERVATORY INC — $37,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $21,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $330,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…ACTBLUE CHARITIES INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyACTBLUE CH…+1 more — $8,000 · PhilanthropyAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $100,000 · HealthAKRON CHI…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON — $87,000 · HealthCHILDREN'…ALTA CARE GROUP INC — $75,000 · HealthALTA CARE…COLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC — $70,000 · HealthCOLEMAN P…+1 more — $5,000 · HealthMILL CREEK METROPARKS FOUNDATION — $170,000 · Recreation & SportsCOMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES — $25,000 · Human ServicesPOTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE VISITATION CENTER INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 · Human ServicesMARIN LINK INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesCLOTHED IN STRENGTH — $5,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION — $70,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $10,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,955,500Arts & Culture$833,500Philanthropy$363,000Health$337,000Recreation & Sports$170,000Human Services$87,500Civil Rights$80,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $330,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART — $280,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetHENRY H STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM ASSOC — $250,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetMILL CREEK METROPARKS FOUNDATION — $170,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMAHONING VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $145,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetBEATITUDE HOUSE INC — $135,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON — $87,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALTA CARE GROUP INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY — $50,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetOH WOW THE ROGER & GLORIA JONES CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR SCIENCE & TECH — $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA JAZZ CONSERVATORY INC — $37,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $30,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFAIR COUNT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEART REACH NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPOTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE HOUSE VISITATION CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetBerkeley Public Schools Fund — $18,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINTERFAITH HOME MAINTENANCE SERVICE INC — $18,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMILL VALLEY PHILHARMONIC — $15,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF YOUNGSTOWN — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBerkeley Community Scholars DBA Berkeley Community Fund — $8,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMARIN LINK INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCLOSE UP FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLOTHED IN STRENGTH — $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetYELLOW BRICK PLACE — $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE ENGLISH CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetBuseesa Community Development Centre — $4,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCenter For Youth Development Through Law — $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPTA CA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS — $1,500 over 1y, 5.8% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …Youngstown Fdn GeneralPremier Bank Foundati…Frank & Pearl Gelbman…Ward Beecher Foundati…John D Finnegan FdnE M Barr Tw Charitabl…Senator Maurice & Flo…Walter E & Caroline H…Youngstown Area Jewis…The Raymond John Wean…J Ford Crandall Depos…
Community Foundation of the Mahoning ValleyOH55.2× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Youngstown Fdn General · Premier Bank Foundation · Frank & Pearl Gelbman Charitable Fdn · Ward Beecher Foundation · John D Finnegan Fdn · E M Barr Tw Charitable Trust · Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char · Walter E & Caroline H Watson Trust · Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · J Ford Crandall Depository

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 Florence S Beecher Fdn 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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