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Fred Beans Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Fred Beans Charitable Foundation

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.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Human Services$330kFood & Nutrition$90kEducation$80kRecreation & Sports$50kYouth Development$50k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC$30,000
TWILIGHT WISH FOUNDATION$20,000
NEXT STEP PROGRAMS INC$20,000
BUCKS COUNTY FREE LIBRARY$20,000
ABINGTON POLICE PAL$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BUCKS FOR KIDS: $40k → 6%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $30k → 6%NEXT STEP PROGRAMS INC: $20k → 6%TWILIGHT WISH FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%SALUTE2SERVICE INC: $100k → 6%ALPHA BRAVO CANINE: $50k → 6%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.
03Its 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
Bucks County Association for Retired and Senior Citizens

To develop educational, civic, nutritional services and recreational interests for any man or women 55 years of age or over in the county of bucks pennsylvania

Human Services
2
Bucks County Workforce Development Board Inc

The mission of the bucks county workforce development is to promote, drive, and ensure an effective workforce in bucks county aligned with economic development.

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3
Bucks County Center for Independent Living

The organization's mission is to ensure that all individuals residing in bucks county, pa, regardless of disability, are provided with the tools to achieve an attainable level of independent living to which they aspire based on their…

Human Services
4
Bucks County Housing Group Inc

Bucks county housing group (bchg) mission is to end food and housing insecurity within our communities. supportive housing program our supportive housing program (shp) is a transitional shelter program where we seek to empower individuals…

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5
Meals On Wheels of Chester County

To provide nutritious meals and personal interaction to homebound adults living in chester county to help them live independently in their own homes.

Human Services
6
Butler County Council On Aging Inc

We prepare meals for senior citizens and provide a place for recreational activities and fellowship. meals are served in our building or are delivered to home-bound individuals.

Human Services
7
Woodside Meals On Wheels

Woodside Meals on Wheels is an all-volunteer organization. We package and deliver meals to individuals in Lower Bucks County who are home-bound and unable to prepare meals for themselves. By providing this service, the Meals on Wheels team…

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8
Foundations Community Partnership
Health
9
Bucks County Police Association

The mission is to promote cooperation between law enforcement professionals, the bucks county police assocation has become a primary agency of integrating communication and cooperation of members and agencies, local police departments and…

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10
Baldwinsville Meals On Wheels

Provide low cost meals to elderly or home bound low income individuals within the service organizations area

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11
Family Service Association of Bucks County

Mission: we listen, care and help. every day. vision: a community where anyone can achieve their full potential. programs: our services treat mental health issues; reduce substance use; shelter, feed, educate and seek permanent housing for…

Human Services
12
Westmoreland County Food Bank Inc

Our mission is to enable our neighbors westmoreland county residents who are hungry or at risk of hunger to have ready access to food.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bucks County Opportunity Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Twilight Wish Foundation. 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

16 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.

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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
6/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALUTE 2 SERVICE: $100,000 · Human ServicesSALUTE 2 SERVICEALPHA BRAVO CANINE: $50,000 · Human ServicesALPHA BRAVO CANINEBUCKS FOR KIDS: $40,000 · Human ServicesBUCKS FOR KIDSBUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesBUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INCTWILIGHT WISH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesTWILIGHT WISH FOUNDATIONTHE NEXT STEP PROGRAMS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE NEXT STEP PROGRAMS INCBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BUCKS COUNTY INC: $50,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG …A WOMAN'S PLACE: $40,000 · OtherA WOMAN'S PLACEBUCKS COUNTY FREE LIBRARY: $20,000 · OtherBUCKS COUNTY FREE…Veterans Multi-Service Center Inc: $100,000 · Public BenefitVeterans Multi-S…MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL BUCKS CO: $50,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEEL…CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $40,000 · Food & NutritionCHESTER COUNTY…BUCKS COUNTY HEROES SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $40,000 · EducationBUCKS COUNTY…BUCKS COUNTY INTERMEDIATE UNIT EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationBUCKS COUNTY…Atheletes Helping Atheletes Inc: $50,000 · PhilanthropyABINGTON POLICE PAL INC: $10,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$260,000Other$110,000Public Benefit$100,000Food & Nutrition$90,000Education$80,000Philanthropy$50,000Youth Development$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSALUTE 2 SERVICE: $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetVeterans Multi-Service Center Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALPHA BRAVO CANINE: $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetAtheletes Helping Atheletes Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BUCKS COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL BUCKS CO: $50,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetA WOMAN'S PLACE: $40,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY HEROES SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $40,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetBUCKS FOR KIDS: $40,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY FREE LIBRARY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTWILIGHT WISH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% 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.

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.

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

2024
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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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
    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.
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    How do I get to Fred Beans Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fred Beans Charitable 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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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