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Javon and Vita Bea Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$113k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
44%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$13,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$4.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Javon and Vita Bea Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationHousing & ShelterHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$113k38%
FY20239$136k44%
FY20229$214k89%
FY20212$42k50%
FY20187$84kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$282kRecreation & Sports$200kEducation$154kHuman Services$61kHousing & Shelter$41kPhilanthropy$30kHealth$21kEnvironment$500

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
IN
CT
MO
MD
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pax Christi Church$160,0005n/a
Rochester Community and Technical Colleg$100,000111%
Diocese of Winona-Rochester$75,0002n/a
Jeremiah Program$38,20030%
Hiawatha Homes Foundation$21,18021%
Hiawatha Foundation$20,0001n/a
St Mary Star of the Sea$15,0001n/a
Rett Syndrome Research Trust Inc$12,50020%
The Laboure Society Inc$10,00010%
St Mary Star of the Sea Church$7,0001n/a
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All grantees of Javon and Vita Bea Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pax Christi Church$160,0005n/a
Rochester Community and Technical Colleg$100,000111%
Diocese of Winona-Rochester$75,0002n/a
Jeremiah Program$38,20030%
Hiawatha Homes Foundation$21,18021%
Hiawatha Foundation$20,0001n/a
St Mary Star of the Sea$15,0001n/a
Rett Syndrome Research Trust Inc$12,50020%
The Laboure Society Inc$10,00010%
St Mary Star of the Sea Church$7,0001n/a
Mercy Health Foundation$5,000111%
Breast Health Sarasota Inc$1,00010%
Rideability$1,00012%
Rotary Botanical Gardens Inc$50010%
Keys for Kids Ministries Inc$21510%
Wisconsin Hospital Association Inc$15010%
Wisconsin Association of Health Plans Inc$13110%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($122k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Javon and Vita Bea Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRochester Community and Technical Colleg: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetJeremiah Program: $38,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHiawatha Homes Foundation: $21,180 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRett Syndrome Research Trust Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Laboure Society Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMercy Health Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBreast Health Sarasota Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRideability: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRotary Botanical Gardens Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKeys for Kids Ministries Inc: $215 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWisconsin Hospital Association Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWisconsin Association of Health Plans Inc: $131 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA7.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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About Javon and Vita Bea Family Foundation

How much does Javon and Vita Bea Family Foundation give?
Javon and Vita Bea Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $112,530 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Javon and Vita Bea Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (36%), Recreation & Sports (25%), Education (19%).
Who are Javon and Vita Bea Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Pax Christi Church ($160k), Rochester Community and Technical Colleg ($100k), Diocese of Winona-Rochester ($75k).
Does Javon and Vita Bea Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Javon and Vita Bea Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Javon and Vita Bea Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Javon and Vita Bea Family Foundation based?
Javon and Vita Bea Family Foundation is based in MN.

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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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