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James R and Linda Beers Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

James R and Linda Beers 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.

$275k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$350kEducation$234kHousing & Shelter$211kHuman Services$42kReligion$35kPhilanthropy$34kFood & Nutrition$23kInternational$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT$100,000
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$100,000
THE KENNEDY CENTER$30,563
THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION$10,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$7,940
WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL$7,500
ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION$5,000
NATIONAL ARCHIVES FOUNDATION$4,500
WETA$2,500
THE WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$1,149
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER$1,000
FREEDOM FORUM$1,000
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS$1,000
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS$996
THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON DC (DC HISTORY CENTER)$950
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $1k → 6%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $1k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OH
PA
CT
KY
VA
MD
TN
DC
OK
MS
TX
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$834k · 32 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
30

Total granted

$834k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+52%

Still filing today

69%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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 & CultureInternationalEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FP
    Friendship Place
    5× · 2020–2024 · $211k · revenue +67%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +31%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ARCHIVES FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • MC
    MMUM CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • U
    UNICEF
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • BF
    BREAD FOR THE CITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +59%
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
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
3
United States Capitol Historical Society

Today, with the formal approval of congress, the society continues exploring and instituting new and creative ways to bring the fascinating story of the capitol, its institutions and america's unique history to people across the nation and…

Arts & Culture
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
The Fund for American Studies

The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…

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7
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
8
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
9
National Academy of Public Administration

The National Academy of Public Administration is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit, non partisan Organization established in 1967 and chartered by Congress in 1984. See Schedule O

Public Benefit
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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12
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Performing Arts Society; the most unlike its peers is The National Museum of Women in the Arts. 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

47 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. 47 of the 68 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
36/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE KENNEDY CENTER: $176,257 · OtherTHE KENNEDY CENTERHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $104,754 · OtherHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INCPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION OF THE D OF C: $28,756 · OtherPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION OF THE D…+40 more: $127,659 · Other+40 moreFriendship Place: $211,000 · Housing & ShelterFriendship PlaceHOUSE OF RUTH: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $38,406 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INST…NATIONAL ARCHIVES FOUNDATION: $37,476 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL ARCHIVE…GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $27,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGT…National Gallery of Art: $21,325 · Arts & CultureNational Gallery…The Washington Chorus Inc: $6,950 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $5,290 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $5,193 · Arts & CultureGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationGEORGE MASON U…A WIDER CIRCLE INC: $25,000 · EducationA WIDER CIRCLE…+2 more: $1,250 · EducationCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION: $31,000 · Public BenefitTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $20,000 · Social ScienceSave The Children Federation Inc: $7,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,500 · InternationalT'RUAH: $1,000 · International
Other$437,426Housing & Shelter$218,500Arts & Culture$141,640Education$126,250Public Benefit$31,000Social Science$20,000International$16,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriendship Place: $211,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $104,754 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $38,406 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARCHIVES FOUNDATION: $37,476 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $27,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $21,325 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEWSEUM INC: $9,453 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOME INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FREEDOM FORUM INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Washington Chorus Inc: $6,950 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $5,290 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA ASSOCIATION OF YOUTH SERVICES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $2,098 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $1,992 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE146 INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetT'RUAH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHistorical Society of Washington DC dba DC History Center: $950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNashville Symphony Association: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDENS: $130 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $130 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $85 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Greater Washington Co…Ibm International Fou…Clark-Winchcole Found…The Morris and Gwendo…Max & Victoria Dreyfu…Latino Economic Devel…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Raymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Latino Economic Development Corporation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 James R and Linda Beers Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James R and Linda Beers Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • LOVE146 Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 68 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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