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The Bee Foundation

THE BEE FOUNDATION is dedicated to raising awareness of brain aneurysms and funding for innovative research that saves lives.

$100k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$289kPublic Benefit$25k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$798k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YALE UNIVERSITY$25,000
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA$25,000
NYC HEALTH & HOSPITALS$25,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICIN: $25k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO: $25k → 13%NYC HEALTH & HOSPITALS: $25k → 17%MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $25k → 28%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $25k → 15%WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $25k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL: $10k → 10%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $29k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $25k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
PA
CT
CA
NC
AL
FL
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 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
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
4
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
5
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
6
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
7
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
8
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
9
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
10
Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital

Mission: to heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities we serve. values: humanity, innovation, teamwork, diversity and equity - our values define our philosophy of care. they shape our actions and motivate and…

Health
11
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
12
University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc

The organization's mission is to solicit and receive contributions and grants from the general public and to hold, invest, and administer these funds and pay expenditures for the benefit of the university of maryland in baltimore and to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yale University; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Miami: $50,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $28,833 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIYale University: $25,000 · EducationYale UniversityWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $25,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCESUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIATRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BI…NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION: $25,000 · OtherNEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HO…PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSI…UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO NEUROSURGERY INC: $25,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO…MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $25,000 · HealthMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CE…THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 · HealthTHE UNIVERSITY OF VER…
Education$178,833Other$75,000Health$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Miami: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $28,833 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO NEUROSURGERY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Bee Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bee 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • The University of Vermont Medical Center: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Bee Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Bee Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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