· Private foundation
Margaret Beelard Community Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters North Bay | $10,000 |
| Canine Companions For Independence | $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 |
| Voena | $5,000 |
| Vallejo Center for the Arts | $5,000 |
| HomeMore Project | $5,000 |
| Saving Gracie | $5,000 |
| Cresent Moon Center | $5,000 |
| Safe Quest Solano | $2,500 |
| Buckingham Charter Magnet High Scho | $2,025 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- SLSOLANO LAND TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -58%
- SLSylvan Legacy Chamber Choirone grant, 2018 · $10k
- VSVALLEJO SYMPHONY ASSOCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +71%
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 VOENA ↗
- Who funds HOMEMORE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SOLANO LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds VALLEJO SYMPHONY ASSOC ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACIE INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Syar Foundation Susan L Syar Director · The San Francisco Foundation · Solano Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Margaret Beelard Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Margaret Beelard Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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