· Private foundation
Margaret Beelard Community 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 · $70k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
Anchored by a single position — about 96% of reported assets are held in Exchange Bank.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Canine Companions For Independence | $10,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters North Bay | $10,000 |
| Young Artists Conservatory of Music | $8,000 |
| Victimes Empowerment Support Team | $7,560 |
| Gaslighters Theatrical Company | $7,500 |
| JR Achievement of Northern Californ | $6,000 |
| Joyful Art Center | $5,000 |
| HomeMore Project | $5,000 |
| Vallejo Center for the Arts | $5,000 |
| Voena | $5,000 |
| Saving Gracie | $5,000 |
| Cresent Moon Center | $5,000 |
| Safe Quest Solano | $2,500 |
| Armijo High School | $2,025 |
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 (FY17–25, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +76% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- TVTHE VACAVILLE NEIGHBORHOOD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB7× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +195%
- CCCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +76%
- YAYOUNG ARTISTS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC6× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- SLSylvan Legacy Chamber Choirone grant, 2018 · $10k
- VSVALLEJO SYMPHONY ASSOCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +71%
- SLSOLANO LAND TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -58%
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.
Occidental Center for the Arts exists to provide a welcoming and accessible venue for the performing and visual arts in Sonoma County California for local regional national and international artists. our mission is to enrich our community…
To champion the performing arts in Santa Rosa for all. To connect people with one another and with art that can enrich their lives. To embrace people from all backgrounds. To provide exceptional service to our resident companies and to…
To produce and support artistic, educational, charitable,and spiritual events to inspire individuals to give back to their communities.
The mission of the San Jose Chamber Orchestra (SJCO) is to share exciting, though-provoking, and vibrant Music by contemporary and time-honored composers reflecting the cultural diversity of our everchanging community, and to support and…
The mission of the Winchester Orchestra is to experience and share the joy of playing orchestral music with the people of San Jose in a friendly and enjoyable concert atmosphere.
Community Music / Arts Organization
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Joyful Art Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 34 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 THE VACAVILLE NEIGHBORHOOD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG ARTISTS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds GASLIGHTERS THEATRICAL COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Marks Growing Center Inc Mustard Seed ↗
- Who funds Vacavilles Imagine That ↗
- Who funds Victims Empowerment Support Team VEST ↗
- Who funds HOMEMORE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds VOENA ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACIE INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEJO SYMPHONY ASSOC ↗
- Who funds SOLANO LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds SafeQuest Solano Inc ↗
- Who funds JOYFUL ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOLANO COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT MOON CENTER ↗
- Who funds Essentially Everly Inc ↗
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: Syar Foundation Susan L Syar Director · The San Francisco Foundation · Solano Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Margaret Beelard Community 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.
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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