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The Beautiful C Foundation at a glance

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The Beautiful C 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.

$41k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$90kHealth$44kCivil Rights$24kFood & Nutrition$10kEnvironment$5kArts & Culture$5kCommunity Improvement$500
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$5,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILLIAM J BRENNAN JR CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC$20,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY$10,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC$5,500
BRADLEY FOOD PANTRY INC$5,000
GREATER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$500
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 (FY21–24, $10k) 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.

area typical 10%MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC: $5k → 6%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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$132k · 3 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$132k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue -27%
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $26k · revenue +14%
  • THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $16k · revenue -4%

Funded once

  • ST
    SPREAD THE VOTE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -62%
  • DH
    DEBORAH HEART AND LUNG CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -7%
  • ML
    MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +52%
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
Clean Ocean Action Inc

Clean ocean action's goal is to improve and protect the waters off the new jersey/new york coast from pollution, plastics, industrialization and climate change with research, education and citizen action.

Environment
2
New Jersey Center for Nonprofits Inc

To build the power of new jersey's nonprofit community to improve the quality of life for all people of our state.

Philanthropy
3
Central Jersey Blood Center Inc

See schedule o for complete mission statement.cjbc was founded with a vision to save lives by providing safe, high quality blood products and services to patients in need. entrusted to collect, process and distribute this priceless life…

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4
Community Medical Center

The organization, a not-for-profit acute care hospital serving the ocean county region, is committed to enhancing the overall health status of the community by providing the highest quality healthcare and related services including…

Health
5
Saint Peter's University Hospital

Keeping faith with the teachings of the roman catholic church and guided by the bishop of metuchen, saint peter's university hospital is committed to humble service to humanity, especially the poor, through competence and good stewardship…

Health
6
Jersey City Medical Center

The organization's mission is to offer healthcare services with compassion and dignity. the organization provides patients, their families and all in need, excellence in hospital and healthcare services and programs to enhance community…

Health
7
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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8
Share My Meals Inc

Originating in mercer county in 2020 with the mission of tackling both food insecurity and food waste, share my meals has since expanded across the state of new jersey. more than 994,000 new jersey residents are food-secure while over 1.9…

Human Services
9
Shore Memorial Hospital

The mission of shore medical center is to care for and respect all patients, their families and each other. the organization provides emergency and medical necessary healthcare services for all individuals regardless of race, color, creed,…

Health
10
Jersey Cares Inc

Established in 1993, jersey cares is a nonprofit organization dedicated to volunteerism and civic engagement in new jersey. we engage individuals, families, community groups, and corporations in a broad spectrum of volunteer opportunities…

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11
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
12
Monmouth Medical Center

To meet the healthcare needs of our community by providing cost-effective quality care. to educate present and future generations of healthcare providers. to provide a continuum of regional tertiary care. please refer to the organization's…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of New Jersey Inc; the most unlike its peers is St John Rescue Inc. 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $90,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INCMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC: $26,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION O…DEBORAH HEART AND LUNG CENTER: $8,000 · HealthDEBORAH HEART AND LUNG C…ST JOHN RESCUE INC: $5,000 · HealthST JOHN RESCUE INCTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $15,500 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR…SPREAD THE VOTE INC: $8,000 · Civil RightsSPREAD THE VOT…MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL: $5,000 · Human ServicesBELMAR ARTS COUNCIL INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBRADLEY FOOD PANTRY INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EnvironmentGREATER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $500 · Community Improvement
Education$90,000Health$39,000Civil Rights$23,500Human Services$10,000Arts & Culture$5,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Environment$5,000Community Improvement$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC: $26,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPREAD THE VOTE INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDEBORAH HEART AND LUNG CENTER: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN RESCUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBELMAR ARTS COUNCIL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetBRADLEY FOOD PANTRY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL: $5,000 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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Beautiful C Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Beautiful C Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Bradley Food Pantry Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Deborah Heart and Lung Center: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–5%
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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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