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Tad Beck Fund at a glance

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Tad Beck Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$349k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$215k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$1.4MRecreation & Sports$545kHealth$75kArts & Culture$36kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kPhilanthropy$25kHuman Services$15kFood & Nutrition$8k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $273k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SINTE GLESKA UNIVERSITY$215,000
KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION$58,000
BELOIT COLLEGE$25,000
BEGIN AGAIN FOUNDATION$15,000
COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL$10,000
CHESAPEAKE SPORTS CLUB$9,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$8,000
VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE FIRST TEE$8,000
LITTLE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA BEACH$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BEGIN AGAIN FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 10 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -23% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$2.0M
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-23%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • THE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2024 · $293k · revenue +62%
  • HO
    HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +26%
  • CR
    COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $55k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRONTIER CULTURE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • CC
    Cub Creek Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -23%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
2
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

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3
Medical College of Va Foundation

To support and foster vcu health and vcu health sciences through philanthropy, stewardship, innovation, communication, and collaboration.

Education
4
Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education
5
National Veterans Legal Services Program Inc

To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.

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6
Thomas Jefferson School of Law

The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…

Education
7
Mcv Associated Physicians

The mission of the organization is to provide physicians and other healthcare professionals to support the needs of the community, as well as the academic mission of the vcu school of medicine.

Health
8
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
9
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
10
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
11
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
12
Goldey-Beacom College

Empowering learners to achieve excellence by linking knowledge to practice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evanston Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Begin Again Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SINTE GLESKA COLLEGE CENTER INC: $907,000 · OtherSINTE GLESKA COLLEGE CENTER INCVIRGINIA SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC: $150,000 · OtherVIRGINIA SPORTS HALL OF FAME INCHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $75,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC+6 more: $134,000 · Other+6 moreBELOIT COLLEGE: $325,000 · EducationBELOIT COLLEGECHESAPEAKE SPORTS CLUB: $94,000 · EducationCHESAPEAKE SPORTS CLUBCOLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC: $55,000 · EducationCOLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN S…THE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION: $293,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE KEEWAYDIN F…Evanston Community Foundation: $25,000 · PhilanthropyBegin Again Foundation: $15,000 · Human ServicesCub Creek Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLITTLE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA BEACH: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,266,000Education$474,000Recreation & Sports$293,000Philanthropy$25,000Human Services$15,000Arts & Culture$11,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBELOIT COLLEGE: $325,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION: $293,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCHESAPEAKE SPORTS CLUB: $94,000 over 4y, 83% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEvanston Community Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN ALBEMARLE RESCUE SQUAD: $25,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetBegin Again Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCub Creek Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLITTLE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA BEACH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Edmund Beck FoundationVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Edmund Beck FoundationNY17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edmund Beck Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tad Beck Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tad Beck Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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