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The Beasley Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$12k
Granted FY2018
16
Grants FY2018
3
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$13kHealth$3kArts & Culture$3kFood & Nutrition$2kYouth Development$2kReligion$2kHuman Services$1kInternational$900Other$0
02FY2018 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$2,500
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$2,000
TRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL$1,000
FT WORTH FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$1,000
FT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$1,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$600
LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND$500
HILL SCHOOL OF FT WORTH$500
MEALS ON WHEELS$400
HIAS$400
THE HOCKADAY SCHOOL$300
GILS CHILDREN PLACE$200
Individual grant recipient$200
TARRANT AREA FOOD BANK$200
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 (FY17–18, $900) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MEALS ON WHEELS: $400 → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $500 → 11%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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17k · 10 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$17k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+60%

Still filing today

70%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
EducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • FW
    FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +52%
  • TV
    TRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +39%
  • TA
    Tarrant Area Food Bank
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +144%

Funded once

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TX
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FT WORTH
    one grant, 2017 · $800
  • RP
    RYAN PLACE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +60%
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
Fort Worth Christain School Inc

Fort worth christian school is a christ-centered community where every child is loved, valued, taught excellence in and out of the classroom, and empowered by a biblical worldview for a lifetime of faith and service.

Education
2
Texas Wesleyan University

Texas wesleyan university, guided by its deep methodist heritage, provides transformational learning experiences and research opportunities to a diverse group of students to develop their full potential as individuals and as members of the…

Education
3
Whitworth University

Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars.

Education
4
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
5
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
6
Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
7
Trinity School of Midland Texas

The mission of trinity school is to be a college preparatory community that provides a nurturing environment to enrich the mind, strengthen the body, enliven the soul, and inspire servant leadership.

Education
8
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
9
The Awty International School

See Schedule OThe purpose of Awty International School (Awty) is to create an environment where students experience excellence every day to make their mark on the world alongside their community, in a spirit of curiosity, courage and…

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10
Selwyn School

Founded in 1957, selwyn school is a prominent, independent day school serving pre-k to 12 students in north texas.

Education
11
North Texas Food Bank

To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.

—
12
Hathaway Brown School

The school is dedicated to excellence in the education of girls. our true mission, as reflected in our motto "non scholae sed vitae discimus," is learning & preparation for life.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Worth Country Day School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. 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

13 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. 13 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $4,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNI…FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $4,500 · EducationFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INCTRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL: $2,000 · EducationTRINITY VALLEY SCHOOLTHE HILL SCHOOL OF FORT WORTH INC: $1,000 · EducationTHE HILL SCHOOL OF FORT WORTH INCHOCKADAY SCHOOL: $800 · EducationHOCKADAY SCHOOL+1 more: $400 · EducationFT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $3,000 · OtherFT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCEFT WORTH FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1,500 · OtherFT WORTH FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHTarrant Area Food Bank: $1,200 · OtherTarrant Area Food BankPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TX: $1,050 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TXLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $1,000 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLINDBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FT WORTH: $800 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FT WORTHBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $600 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBRYAN PLACE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $500 · Other+4 more: $800 · Other+4 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD: $1,000 · HealthTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC: $400 · HealthHIAS INC: $900 · InternationalMEALS ON WHEELS: $900 · Human ServicesHumane Society of North Texas: $150 · Animals
Education$13,200Other$10,450Health$1,400International$900Human Services$900Animals$150

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL OF FORT WORTH INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOCKADAY SCHOOL: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHumane Society of North Texas: $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Bnsf Railway FoundationTX15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bnsf Railway Foundation · The Roach Foundation Inc · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Once Upon a Time Foundation · 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 The Beasley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Beasley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 23 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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