· Private foundation
Robert F Beard Charitable Foundat'N
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $427k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARE HOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY | $66,000 |
| HUDSON SCHOOLS | $54,100 |
| FOUNDATION FOR HOPE OUTDOOR ADVENT | $35,000 |
| HELEN DEVOS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $35,000 |
| ALEX'S LEMONADE STAND | $35,000 |
| AQUME FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER | $25,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $22,000 |
| PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FDN | $20,000 |
| MICHIGAN HORSE DRIVING SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| THE PLAYGROUND GRAND RAPIDS | $20,000 |
| EDEN GARDENS COMMUNITY ASSN | $16,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $657k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 26% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 9 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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
- SOSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $315k · revenue +265%
- CCCAMP CASEY CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $302k · revenue +82%
- COCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $291k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- HFHUDSON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $62k · revenue -10%
- EFEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF HUDSON INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $55k · revenue +25%
- ICIMPACT CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $37k
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.
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
Accelerating the most effective gene therapy treatments for children with ultra-rare diseases.
Beat childhood cancer drives childhood cancer research and raises awareness, making a difference in kids' survival today. our vision is to change the story for the next family by finding viable treatments and ultimately, cures for…
Children's cancer research fund fuels transformational research to bring better treatments and cures to children with cancer.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Cog research foundation, llc is a california 501(c)(3) entity founded in 2024 and designed to become the federal grantee organization for the children's oncology group (cog). the cog, a member of the national cancer institute (nci)…
Our mission: drive research, expand knowledge, and advance care for the nf community. our vision: end nf.
CancerFree KIDS exists to raise awareness of the need for more funding for pediatric cancer research and to raise funds that are invested in early stage, potentially game-changing research focused on gentler treatments and cures for…
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
Chance for life's mission is to raise awareness and funds for critical research and clinical trials for pediatric cancer in the united states of america.
The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.
Skc impacts children through the initiation of clinical research trials of investigative treatment strategies. our vision is to continue expanding the armamentarium of effective and less toxic treartment strategies for pediatric…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Student Leadership Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Education Foundation of Hudson Inc. 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 25 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 93 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 SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP CASEY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ADA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR HOPE OUTDOOR ADVENTURES ↗
- Who funds SANTAS HIDE-A-WAY HOLLOW ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF HUDSON INC ↗
- Who funds EDEN GARDENS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CLAY EDDY FIELDS ASSN ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE RANCH FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · Frey Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · Dte Energy Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Charities Aid Foundation America · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
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 Robert F Beard Charitable Foundat'N 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.
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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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