· Private foundation
Judith McBean Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $124k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UC Davis Foundation | $85,000 |
| Sportsmen's Alliance Foundation | $50,000 |
| UC Regents | $20,000 |
| Oldflelds School | $20,000 |
| The Great Elephant Migration | $15,000 |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $15,000 |
| The Society of CA Pioneers | $14,000 |
| CA Rangeland Trust | $10,000 |
| Navy SEAL Foundation | $10,000 |
| Emory University | $10,000 |
| Beatrice Wood Center For The Arts | $10,000 |
| Friends of Oceano Dunes | $2,500 |
| Healing Heroes Through Horsemanship | $2,500 |
| Western Justice | $2,500 |
| Parasites Without Borders | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
40 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 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; $16k 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
- EUEmory University9× · 2017–2025 · $245k · revenue +80%
- TUTHE UNITED STATES SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +125%
- TUTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $150k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- JMJ MCBEAN FOUND TR FELLOWSHIP SMALL ANIMALS INF DISEASESone grant, 2023 · $65k
- USUS SPORTMENS ALLIANCE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $50k
- EAEcoHealth Alliance Incone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -29%
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.
Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.
The american wild horse campaign is the nation's leading conservation organization dedicated to preserving the freedom and habitat of wild horses and burros. through its initiatives in advocacy, conservation, land preservation, and legal…
To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
To promote and protect Wildlife
The mission of the northern jaguar project is to preserve and recover the world's northermost population of the jaguar, its unique natural habitat, and native wildlife under its protection as a flagship, keystone, and umbrella species.
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Protect the Harvest and the most unlike its peers is Holistic Manangement International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 61 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 Emory University ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED STATES SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PANTHERA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OLDFIELDS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ANIMAL INTEREST ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EcoHealth Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds PROTECT THE HARVEST ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OCEANO DUNES ↗
- Who funds QUIVIRA COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PARASITES WITHOUT BORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS ↗
- Who funds KIDS OUTDOOR SPORTS CAMP ↗
- Who funds HOLISTIC MANANGEMENT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HEALING HEROES THROUGH HORSEMANSHIP INCORPORATED ↗
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: Carroll Petrie Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Judith McBean Foundation 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.
- EcoHealth Alliance Inc — 24% of income from government
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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