· Private foundation
The Beach Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $315k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMONWEATLH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ATLAS NETWORK | $100,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION | $50,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR GOVT ACCOUNTABILITY | $50,000 |
| STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY | $50,000 |
| REASON FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| EMBER CLUB | $25,000 |
| FAIRNESS CENTER | $25,000 |
| COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| RODEO AUSTIN | $25,000 |
| REALCLEAR FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $20,000 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| FREEDOM FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
63 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRTHE REASON FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $305k · revenue +41%
- SFSTUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $245k · revenue +34%
- FFFoundation for Economic Education Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- GFGMU FOUND (GEORGE MASON)one grant, 2020 · $5k
- PUPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +112%
- SESEEKING EDUCATION EXCELLENCEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue ×1,165
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.
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.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
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.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.
The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…
The r street institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public-policy research organization ("think tank"). our mission is to engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government. (continued on…
To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…
Support public interest litigators by leveraging resources and creating opportunities for collaboration to advance freedom under the rule of law.
The center for american progress (cap) is an independent nonpartisan policy institute that is dedicated to improving the lives of all americans through bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong leadership and concerted action. our aim is…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
How this is measured
56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 86 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Economic Education Inc ↗
- Who funds COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds THE FAIRNESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRANITE STATE ADAPTIVE ↗
- Who funds EdChoice Inc ↗
- Who funds Loon Preservation Committee ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REAL CLEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds RODEO AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds Young Voices ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds Americans for Prosperity Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FREE TO CHOOSE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Institute for Humane Studies ↗
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: The Dunn Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · John William Pope Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Charles Koch Foundation · The Armstrong Foundation · Charles Koch Institute · Triad Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Beach Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Beach Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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