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Jack Beaty Educational Scholarship Foundation C/O Kurt Sommer
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of JACK BEATY EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION C/O KURT SOMMER’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $235k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $180,000 |
| FIRST SERVE NM INC | $55,000 |
| SANTA FE OPERA | $25,000 |
| NM COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
| NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY TRUST | $10,000 |
| ST MICHAELS HIGH SCHOOL | $9,500 |
| MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING | $5,000 |
| COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| COOKING WITH KIDS | $2,500 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SF | $1,000 |
| LIFE CENTER FOUNDATION | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 70% of your 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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 0 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- ISINTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND2× · 2024–2025 · $420k
- FSFIRST SERVE-NM INC3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +15%
- SMST MICHAELS HIGH SCHOOL3× · 2023–2025 · $78k
Funded once
- NNNORTHERN NEW MEXICO COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -62%
- NMNEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -2%
- AFACTEC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k
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 cnm foundation is committed to the principle that no central new mexico community college student should be denied the opportunity for an education or vocational training due solely to a lack of financial resources. the cnm foundation…
To ensure that government is accountable to the voters and taxpayers.
Grants and expenses for programs serving the physical, mental, educational and social needs of children and their families.
The mission of NMCNE is to advance and engage the nursing community to promote excellence and improve the health of all New Mexicans.
Santa Fe Montessori Childcare Program is a non-profit Montessori education program established for the benefit of the greater Santa Fe, NM community. Specifically the program provides a multi-faceted education for preschool- school age…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The May Center for Learning and the most unlike its peers is Pnm Tnmp Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 21 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 FIRST SERVE-NM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NEW MEXICO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds PNM TNMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING ↗
- Who funds COOKING WITH KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Life Circle ↗
- Who funds Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe ↗
- Who funds LIFE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · The Frost Foundation · The Abeles Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Jack Beaty Educational Scholarship Foundation C/O Kurt Sommer 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.
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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