· Private foundation
Bethann Laign-Beeman
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CENTER | $12,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE RESCUE | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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 +113% since the first grant, against +78% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MCMIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CENTER INC5× · 2019–2024 · $64k · revenue +38%
- MHMIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2022 · $15k · revenue +139%
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +78%- FFFAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +554%
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.
Provide affordable housing for low-income individuals and families.
Mid-york senior homes is a 72 unit housing complex that provides affordable housing to senior citizens.
In conjuction with related organizations, mid-peninsula seven trees inc's mission is to provide safe, affordable housing of high quality to those in need; to establish stability and opportunity in the lives of residents; and to foster…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. greater fredericksburg habitat for humanity…
Our mission is to provide decent and affordable housing to eligible families in partnership with god, the families and our community.
Habitat for humanity works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with people in need by building and renovating houses, so that there are decent houses in decent communities in which…
Construction/repair of homes for qualified low-income individuals and families. homes are sold based on fair market value as established by a third-party, independent appraisal with no homebuyer paying more than 30% of their monthly income…
To build humane habitats for disadvantaged people. construction of new homes for low income individuals/families.
As a reflection of god's love and in partnership with the community, habitat for humanity susquehanna seeks to create homeownership opportunity by building, renovating and repairing homes.
Seek to put gods love into action by bringing people together to build homes, communities and hope. to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. middlesex habitat for humanity of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity of Long Island Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grand Teton National Park Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 15 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 MIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBURG MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds WINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LONG ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Seven Loaves Services 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: Frank Mangano Foundation · James Lessing Kleeblatt Memorial Foundation Inc · The Anna McWane Charitable Foundation · McGraw Foundation · The Luminescence Foundation Inc · Wise Foundation · Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Bethann Laign-Beeman 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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