Ohio · Private foundation
The Beck Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $98k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 29
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The Beck Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 30 | $98k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $70k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $64k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $66k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $76k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $75k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Year Inc | $32,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lower Light Ministries Inc | $15,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Lifecare Alliance | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Mid-Ohio Foodbank | $13,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Garden District Corporation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Kitchen Inc | $10,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Homeless Families Foundation | $9,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Neighborhood Services Inc | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Open Shelter Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hillsboro Christian Academy | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Year Inc | $32,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lower Light Ministries Inc | $15,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Lifecare Alliance | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Mid-Ohio Foodbank | $13,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Garden District Corporation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Kitchen Inc | $10,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Homeless Families Foundation | $9,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Neighborhood Services Inc | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Open Shelter Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hillsboro Christian Academy | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Catholic Social Services Inc | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| St Vincent Family Services | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Healthy Worthington Resource Center and Food Pantry Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Faith Mission Inc | $3,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Central Ohio Youth for Christ Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Gladden Community House | $1,350 | 3 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($305k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Beck Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About The Beck Foundation
- How much does The Beck Foundation give?
- The Beck Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $97,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 29 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Beck Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (57%), Education (18%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
- Who are The Beck Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: City Year Inc ($32k), Lower Light Ministries Inc ($16k), Lifecare Alliance ($14k).
- Does The Beck Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Beck Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Beck Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ingram-White Castle Foundation, Columbus Foundation, Harry C Moores Foundation.
- Where is The Beck Foundation based?
- The Beck Foundation is based in OH.
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