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The Beck Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY YEAR COLUMBUS | $12,000 |
| OAK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| THE GARDEN DISTRICT CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| LIFECARE ALLIANCE | $7,000 |
| MID OHIO FOOD BANK | $5,800 |
| LOWER LIGHTS MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC | $5,000 |
| HOMLESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION | $4,800 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC | $4,000 |
| JOINT ORGANIZATION FOR INNER CITY NEEDS | $3,750 |
| THE OPEN SHELTER INC | $3,000 |
| PLAIN CITY FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| ST STEPHENS COMMUNITY CENTER | $3,000 |
| HEINZERLING MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ST FRANCIS CENTER | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of The Beck Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
28 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
CITY YEAR INC3× · 2023–2025 · $32k · revenue +3%- LLLOWER LIGHT MINISTRIES INC3× · 2023–2025 · $16k · revenue +7%
- LALIFECARE ALLIANCE3× · 2023–2025 · $14k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- HCHILLSBORO CHRISTIAN ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +20%
- HCHOLY CROSS CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $2k
- KPKAIROS PRISON MINISTRY OF OHIOone grant, 2024 · $250
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
The west side catholic center provides food, clothing, shelter, and advocacy to all who come to us in need. through various programs, we serve the homeless and indigent of cleveland, ohio.
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
Creating a better world by serving people in need is our mission. through this mission, lss serves thousands of people every day in central, northern and southeast ohio by focusing on the societal issues of hunger, housing, healing and…
To provide social services to those in need, focusing on nine areas: behavioral health, family stabilization & success, guardianship, hispanic outreach, pregnancy & parenting, refugee resettlement, services for older adults, supervised…
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.
Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.
To align community resources and generate insights that strengthen central ohio.
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Faith Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hillsboro Christian Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER LIGHT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LIFECARE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSBORO CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY WORTHINGTON RESOURCE CENTER AND FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · The Macbea Foundation · Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Beck Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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