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Jack Beaty Educational Scholarship Foundation C/O Kurt Sommer at a glance

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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.

$313k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$180k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$711kRecreation & Sports$150kArts & Culture$115kPhilanthropy$70kHuman Services$3kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $235k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND$180,000
FIRST SERVE NM INC$55,000
SANTA FE OPERA$25,000
LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS$10,000
NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY TRUST$10,000
NM COMMUNITY COLLEGE$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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $50k → 12%UNM FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%NORTHERN NM COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50k → 18%ACTEC FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $240k → 14%COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%ALI DJIM: $2k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $10k → 11%LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS: $10k → 12%NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY TRUST: $50k → 14%NM COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 18%INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $180k → 14%COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS: $5k → 12%NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY TRUST: $10k → 14%COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%LIFE CIRCLE: $3k → 12%NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY TRUST: $10k → 14%LIFE CENTER FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%ST MICHAELS HIGH SCHOOL: $60k → 12%ST MICHAELS HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 12%SANTA FE OPERA: $25k → 12%ST MICHAELS HIGH SCHOOL: $8k → 12%SANTA FE OPERA: $25k → 12%COOKING WITH KIDS: $3k → 12%IAIA FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING: $5k → 12%LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SF: $1k → 12%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$793k · 7 repeat orgs$309k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$793k
$290k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
0%

Still filing today

43%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • IS
    INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    2× · 2024–2025 · $420k
  • FS
    FIRST SERVE-NM INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +15%
  • SM
    ST MICHAELS HIGH SCHOOL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $78k

Funded once

  • AF
    ACTEC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • NN
    NORTHERN NEW MEXICO COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -62%
  • PT
    PNM TNMP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
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
Nm Building Education Foundation
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2
Central New Mexico Community College Foundation Inc

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…

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3
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico
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4
National Institute of Mexican American History of Civil Rights
Civil Rights
5
Community Power New Mexico
Community Improvement
6
New Mexico Foundation for Open Government

To ensure that government is accountable to the voters and taxpayers.

Crime & Legal
7
New Mexico Broadcasters Association Foundation Inc
Education
8
Association of Chinese-American Engineers and Scientists of New Mexico
Science & Tech
9
New Mexico Childrens Foundation

Grants and expenses for programs serving the physical, mental, educational and social needs of children and their families.

Human Services
10
New Mexico Center for Nursing Excellence

The mission of NMCNE is to advance and engage the nursing community to promote excellence and improve the health of all New Mexicans.

Health
11
Santa Fe Jazz Foundation Inc
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12
Santa Fe Montessori Childcare Program

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The May Center for Learning; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
3/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $420,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUNDST MICHAELS HIGH SCHOOL: $77,500 · OtherST MICHAELS HIGH SCHOOLNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY TRUST: $70,000 · OtherNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY TRUSTACTEC FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherACTEC FOUNDATIONPNM TNMP FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherPNM TNMP FOUNDATIONIAIA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherIAIA FOUNDATION+7 more: $72,500 · Other+7 moreFIRST SERVE-NM INC: $150,000 · Recreation & SportsFIRST SERVE-NM …NORTHERN NEW MEXICO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationNORTHERN N…NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE: $50,000 · EducationNEW MEXICO…THE MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationTHE SANTA FE OPERA: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCOOKING WITH KIDS INC: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentLife Circle: $2,500 · Health
Other$790,000Recreation & Sports$150,000Education$106,000Arts & Culture$50,000Youth Development$2,500Health$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIRST SERVE-NM INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY TRUST: $70,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SANTA FE OPERA: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN NEW MEXICO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPNM TNMP FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetNEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOOKING WITH KIDS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLife Circle: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLiteracy Volunteers of Santa Fe: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIFE CENTER FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Santa Fe Community Fo…Thornburg FoundationThe Frost FoundationThe Abeles FoundationAnchorum St VincentDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Santa Fe Community FoundationNM21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jack Beaty Educational Scholarship Foundation C/O Kurt Sommer funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack Beaty Educational Scholarship Foundation C/O Kurt Sommer. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Jack Beaty Educational Scholarship Foundation C/O Kurt Sommer?

    Find your warmest path to Jack Beaty Educational Scholarship Foundation C/O Kurt Sommer 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 21 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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