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Shirley and Harry Beer Charitable Foundation

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.

$74k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of SHIRLEY AND HARRY BEER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’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.

02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $22k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY$52,000
ARIZ STATE UNIVERSTY FOUNDATION$6,000
LOS ANGELES OPERA$3,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$2,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$2,500
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$2,000
SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK$1,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$1,000
CENTRAL SIERRA ENVIRONMENTAL RESOUCES CENTER$1,000
AMFAR FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH$1,000
CONGREGATION BETH-EL$500
HILLEL - STANFORD$500
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 (FY20–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 22%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF NEWPORT BEACH: $1k → 10%INSIGHT HOUSING: $1k → 10%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF NEWPORT BEACH: $1k → 10%WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 22%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $2k → 11%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
NY
PA
CA
MD
AZ
TN
DC

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.

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$288k · 26 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
34

Total granted

$288k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+35%

Still filing today

65%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

  • LJ
    LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $163k · revenue +11%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $9k · revenue +21%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $6k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • CO
    CHABAD OF POWAY
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • TB
    The Butterfly Projectgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +79%

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
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

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2
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
8
Sandler Foundation

The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…

Philanthropy
9
San Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc

(continued from page 1) nationally and internationally. Further, J seeks to enrich the cultural, religious and social life of the community through its articles, interviews and features.

Education
10
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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11
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
12
California Institute for BioMedical Research

Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Center of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is Tuolumne Fire Safe Council. 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 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr11%32%35–55yr13%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr17%10%20–35yr11%73%35–55yr13%12%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,928

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.

04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 68 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
37/48
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY — $163,000 · OtherLA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGYLA JOLLA INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY — $30,000 · OtherLA JOLLA INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGYLOS ANGELES OPERA — $15,640 · Other+39 more — $87,954 · Other+39 moreWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $9,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $5,500 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $3,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $3,000 · International+1 more — $600 · InternationalCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $4,850 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $2,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $2,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $1,500 · HealthST JAMES INFIRMARY — $1,000 · HealthBay Area Young Survivors — $500 · HealthANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $5,500 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $5,000 · Civil RightsBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 · Arts & CultureLES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureIMMIGRATION INSTITUTE OF THE BAY AREA — $1,000 · Arts & CultureSKEPTIC SOCIETY — $1,000 · Arts & CultureWILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER — $2,000 · Human ServicesAssistance League of Newport-Mesa — $2,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO — $1,800 · Human ServicesInsight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project — $1,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO — $1,000 · Human ServicesJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $4,500 · Food & NutritionMEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC — $1,000 · Food & NutritionProject Open Hand — $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$296,594International$21,600Health$14,350Civil Rights$10,500Arts & Culture$8,000Human Services$7,800Food & Nutrition$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY — $163,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIDM MUSEUM & LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $4,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Butterfly Project — $3,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Sierra Environmental Resource Center Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOrange Coast College Foundation — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAssistance League of Newport-Mesa — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInsight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMMIGRATION INSTITUTE OF THE BAY AREA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKEPTIC SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTUOLUMNE FIRE SAFE COUNCIL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Open Hand — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHETERODOX ACADEMY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JAMES INFIRMARY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST BOOK — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSunbird Initiative — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBay Area Young Survivors — $500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBaykeeper — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Jewish Community Foun…The San Francisco Fou…ImpactassetsincLeichtag FoundationGordon E and Betty I …The California Wellne…The Yelp FoundationFiredoll FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…The Cushman FoundationKoret FoundationJewish Community Fede…
Jewish Community Foundation of San DiegoCA18.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Francisco Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Leichtag Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Firedoll Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Koret Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma

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 Shirley and Harry Beer Charitable Foundation 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 · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report 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.

    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 68 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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