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Norwin S and Elizabeth N Bean Foundati

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$609k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of NORWIN S AND ELIZABETH N BEAN FOUNDATI’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $535k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILIES IN TRANSITION$50,000
NH HISTORICAL SOCIETY$34,000
MOORE CENTER SERVICES INC$32,410
MANCHESTER POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE$30,000
GIRLS INC OF NH$25,927
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MANCHESTER$25,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY$25,000
1269 CAF MINISTRIES$25,000
NH LEGAL ASSISTANCE$25,000
QUEEN CITY BICYCLE COLLECTIVE$25,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUHEGAN VALLEY$25,000
SEE SCIENCE CENTER INC$22,800
BREAKTHROUGH MANCHESTER$20,000
BUILDING COMMUNITY IN NH$20,000
NH MUSCULOSKELETAL INSTITUTE$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $374k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NORTHEASTERN FAMILY INSTITUTE: $25k → 7%GRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING: $27k → 7%MANCHESTER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $13k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $20k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES NEW HAMPSHIRE: $10k → 7%WEBSTER HOUSE: $25k → 7%WEBSTER HOUSE: $25k → 7%WEBSTER HOUSE: $20k → 7%MOORE CENTER SERVICES INC: $32k → 7%WEBSTER HOUSE: $9k → 7%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $8k → 7%WAYPOINT NH: $50k → 7%GRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING: $29k → 7%WAYPOINT NH: $13k → 7%THE GOOD SAMARITAN NETWORK: $11k → 7%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%VICTORY WOMEN OF VISION: $4k → 7%ANDY'S SUMMER PLAYHOUSE: $25k → 7%VICTORY WOMEN OF VISION: $3k → 7%ANDY'S SUMMER PLAYHOUSE: $8k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Norwin S and Elizabeth N Bean Foundati’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NH; read by stated purpose it is 96% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Norwin S and Elizabeth N Bean Foundatilessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 61 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

61 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
94

Total granted

$3.2M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+34%

Still filing today

66%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • GU
    GRANITE UNITED WAY
    5× · 2018–2023 · $189k · revenue +40%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER
    3× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +71%
  • PT
    PALACE THEATRE TRUST
    3× · 2017–2022 · $120k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
  • YN
    YWCA NH
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • MH
    MANCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
2
Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board Inc

Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.

Community Improvement
4
Southern New Hampshire Health System Inc

Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.

Health
5
Concord Area Trust for Community Housing

Catch's mission is to strengthen our communities by creating opportunities for permanently affordable, quality housing for people otherwise not being served.

Housing & Shelter
6
New Hampshire Historical Society

To educate a diverse public about the significance of New Hampshire's past and its relationship to our lives today. To this end, the Society collects, preserves, and interprets material pertaining to New Hampshire history.

Arts & Culture
7
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
8
Granite State News Collaborative

The Granite State News Collaborative is a statewide multimedia news collaborative that draws on and amplifies the strengths of its members to expand and add missing dimensions to coverage of issues of concern to the NH public as a whole,…

Arts & Culture
9
CityHope of New Hampshire

CityHope walks with individuals and families, empowering and equipping them with the necessary resources and skills needed to thrive in their communities. By providing support services to those experiencing financial hardships and housing…

Human Services
10
New England Center for Investigative Reporting Inc
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11
Harbor Homes Inc

Harbor Care's mission is to provide vital services, including housing and healthcare to all in our communities needing assistance. Our vision is one where everyone gets to live safe, stable, and healthy lives, filled with purpose, respect…

Housing & Shelter
12
Manchester Alcoholism Rehabilitation Center

Helping individuals and families find their way to a life free of the effects of alcohol and other drugs through comprehensive treatment and recovery services open to all.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits and the most unlike its peers is Bring It. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr11%7%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr15%17%35–55yr18%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr11%4%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr15%18%35–55yr18%41%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/74
the rest of the field
8%
278/3,302

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.

05the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 164 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
57/70
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GRANITE UNITED WAY — $188,750 · OtherGRANITE UNITED WAYIndividual grant recipient — $150,190 · Other+126 more — $2,929,587 · Other+126 moreWAYPOINT — $82,500 · Human ServicesWAYPOINTWEBSTER HOUSE — $79,000 · Human ServicesWEBSTER HO…GRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING — $55,110 · Human ServicesGRANITE ST…ANDYS SUMMER PLAYHOUSE INC — $33,000 · Human ServicesANDYS SUMM…MOORE CENTER SERVICES INC — $32,410 · Human ServicesMOORE CENT…New Hampshire Catholic Charities — $30,000 · Human ServicesNew Hampsh…Crotched Mountain Foundation — $27,500 · Human ServicesCrotched M…NFI North Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesNFI North …Operation Warm Inc — $20,000 · Human Services+3 more — $29,750 · Human Services+3 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER — $140,000 · Youth DevelopmentMANCHESTER POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS AT WORK INC — $47,440 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF THE GREEN AND WHITE MTNS — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentINTI ACADEMY LTD — $12,500 · Youth Development+1 more — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentPALACE THEATRE TRUST — $120,000 · Arts & CultureSEE SCIENCE CENTER INC — $60,248 · Arts & CultureKIMBALL JENKINS INC — $17,874 · Arts & CultureMAJESTIC THEATRE — $16,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureFamilies in Transition — $105,000 · Housing & ShelterManchester Neighborhood Housing Services Inc — $80,000 · Housing & ShelterHELPING HANDS OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterAmoskeag Health — $50,000 · HealthCatholic Medical Center — $45,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF AINE — $33,400 · HealthAddiction Recovery Coalition of New Hampshire — $20,000 · HealthGRANITE PATHWAYS — $20,000 · HealthCONNORS CLIMB FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Health+2 more — $4,000 · HealthUPREACH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC — $89,088 · Recreation & SportsFriends of Stark Park Inc — $10,472 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,268,527Human Services$414,270Youth Development$299,940Arts & Culture$219,122Housing & Shelter$205,000Health$187,400Recreation & Sports$99,560

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGRANITE UNITED WAY — $188,750 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER — $140,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPALACE THEATRE TRUST — $120,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetThe Granite Young Men's Christian Association — $107,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFamilies in Transition — $105,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUPREACH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC — $89,088 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $88,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWAYPOINT — $82,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetManchester Neighborhood Housing Services Inc — $80,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE DERRYFIELD SCHOOL — $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWEBSTER HOUSE — $79,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL — $75,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetMANCHESTER POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE — $75,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSEE SCIENCE CENTER INC — $60,248 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetGRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING — $55,110 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew Hampshire Association for the Blind D/B/A Future in Sight — $55,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW HAMPSHIRE — $51,726 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAmoskeag Health — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST JOSEPH COMMUNITY SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $47,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS AT WORK INC — $47,440 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetCatholic Medical Center — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUHEGAN VALLEY INC — $45,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY NETWORKS INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION — $40,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES — $36,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF AINE — $33,400 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetANDYS SUMMER PLAYHOUSE INC — $33,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetMOORE CENTER SERVICES INC — $32,410 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCrotched Mountain Foundation — $27,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNFI North Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GRANITE STATE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQUEEN CITY BICYCLE COLLECTIVE — $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetOperation Warm Inc — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT ANSELM COLLEGE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAddiction Recovery Coalition of New Hampshire — $20,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetGRANITE PATHWAYS — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE GREEN AND WHITE MTNS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE CENTER FOR NONPROFITS — $18,280 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMAYHEW — $18,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetKIMBALL JENKINS INC — $17,874 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetJOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES - NEW HAMPSHIRE — $16,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMAJESTIC THEATRE — $16,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budget
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.

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.

New Hampshire Charita…Cogswell Benevolent T…Eastern Bank Foundati…Madelaine G Vonweber …Granite United WayArthur Jr Dobles & Ol…Eversource Energy Fou…Arthur L Getz Charita…Eastern Cambridge Fou…Samuel P Hunt Foundat…Southern New Hampshir…M L Billings Tr FBO N…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH90.8× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Eastern Bank Foundation · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Granite United Way · Arthur Jr Dobles & Olive G Dobles Crut · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Arthur L Getz Charitable Tr · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Samuel P Hunt Foundation · Southern New Hampshire University · M L Billings Tr FBO Nh Charities

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 Norwin S and Elizabeth N Bean Foundati 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Chill Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to Norwin S and Elizabeth N Bean Foundati?

Find your warmest path to Norwin S and Elizabeth N Bean Foundati through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 164 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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