Michigan · 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.
- $583k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $66,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Robert F Beard Charitable Foundat'N funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $583k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $633k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $519k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $500k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $590k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $600k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $555k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $564k | 18% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Special Operations Warrior Foundation | $315,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Camp Casey Corporation | $302,140 | 9 | 14% |
| Carehouse of Oakland County Inc | $291,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Ada Christian School Society | $231,250 | 7 | 1% |
| Forgotten Harvest Inc | $195,849 | 8 | 0% |
| Safe Haven Ministries Inc | $195,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Foundation for Hope Outdoor Adventures | $185,000 | 6 | 47% |
| Santas Hide-A-Way Hollow | $176,924 | 6 | 44% |
| Children's Healing Center | $145,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Artists Creating Together | $100,000 | 5 | 6% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert F Beard Charitable Foundat'N supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Robert F Beard Charitable Foundat'N
- How much does Robert F Beard Charitable Foundat'N give?
- Robert F Beard Charitable Foundat'N reported 34 grants totaling $582,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Robert F Beard Charitable Foundat'N fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Health (24%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Robert F Beard Charitable Foundat'N's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Special Operations Warrior Foundation ($315k), Camp Casey Corporation ($302k), Carehouse of Oakland County Inc ($291k).
- Does Robert F Beard Charitable Foundat'N fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert F Beard Charitable Foundat'N accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robert F Beard Charitable Foundat'N?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Rapids Community Foundation, The Meijer Foundation, Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation.
- Where is Robert F Beard Charitable Foundat'N based?
- Robert F Beard Charitable Foundat'N is based in MI.
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