California · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $52,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 33
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Shirley and Harry Beer Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 12 | $74k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $104k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $50k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $42k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $50k | 85% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $38k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Jolla Institute for Immunology | $163,000 | 3 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $9,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Chabad of Poway | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Anti-Defamation League | $5,500 | 3 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $5,500 | 3 | 0% |
| American Jewish Committee | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Fidm Museum & Library Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc | $4,850 | 5 | 0% |
| Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank | $4,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($89k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shirley and Harry Beer Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
Compare Shirley and Harry Beer Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Shirley and Harry Beer Charitable Foundation
- How much does Shirley and Harry Beer Charitable Foundation give?
- Shirley and Harry Beer Charitable Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $73,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Shirley and Harry Beer Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (59%), Arts & Culture (11%), Education (5%).
- Who are Shirley and Harry Beer Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: La Jolla Institute for Immunology ($163k), World Central Kitchen Inc ($9k), Chabad of Poway ($8k).
- Does Shirley and Harry Beer Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shirley and Harry Beer Charitable Foundation 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 Shirley and Harry Beer Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego, The San Francisco Foundation, Impactassetsinc.
- Where is Shirley and Harry Beer Charitable Foundation based?
- Shirley and Harry Beer Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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