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The Beehive Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$255k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.7MReligion$181kCommunity Improvement$120kEnvironment$25kCivil Rights$25kAnimals$10k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHIPS OF THE SEA MARITIME MUSEUM$200,000
DOWNTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION$30,000
SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL$25,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INSTITUE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE: $50k → 17%INSTITUE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE: $40k → 13%OSSABAW ISLAND FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%INSTITUE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE: $25k → 17%GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVA: $5k → 13%TRUSTEES GARDEN CLUB: $25k → 16%HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 16%SHIPS OF THE SEA MARITIME MUSEUM: $296k → 16%SHIPS OF THE SEA MARITIME MUSEUM: $200k → 16%SHIPS OF THE SEA MARITIME MUSEUM: $200k → 16%SHIPS OF THE SEA MARITIME MUSEUM: $200k → 16%BETH EDEN BAPTIST CHURCH: $181k → 16%SHIPS OF THE SEA MARITIME MUSEUM: $111k → 16%HISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION: $100k → 16%SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: $100k → 16%SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: $100k → 16%SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: $100k → 16%HISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: $50k → 16%SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: $25k → 16%SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: $25k → 16%CHATHAM SAVANNAH CITIZEN ADVOCACY: $25k → 16%SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: $25k → 16%HISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION: $13k → 16%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 6 repeat orgs$311k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$1.8M
$311k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+32%

Still filing today

67%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCivil RightsEnvironmentOther
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

  • SO
    SHIPS OF THE SEA MARITIME MUSEUM INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +10% · 35% of their budget
  • SM
    SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue -4%
  • HS
    HISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $163k · revenue -3%

Funded once

  • BE
    BETH EDEN BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $181k
  • IO
    INSTITUE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE
    one grant, 2019 · $40k
  • TG
    TRUSTEES' GARDEN CLUB INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -65%
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
The South Carolina Historical Society

The schs mission is to expand, preserve, and make accessible our invaluable collection, and to encourage interest and pride in the rich history of our state.

Arts & Culture
2
Harbor Historical Association of Georgetown

Preserve and promote maritime history of south carolina and georgetown. establish and promote a museum for the exempt purpose of education and preservation of exhibits and artifacts. conducting the georgetown wooden boat show exhibit.

Education
3
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
4
Tudor Place Foundation Inc

Tudor place historic house & garden preserves the stories of six generations of descendants of martha washington and the enslaved and free people who lived and worked at this georgetown landmark for nearly two centuries. by examining their…

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5
Savannah Museum of African Art Inc
Arts & Culture
6
The Hibernian Society of Savannah Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
7
Isle of Wight County Museum Foundation Inc
Arts & Culture
8
Saint Peters Landmark Preservation Trust
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9
Association for the Preservation of Va Antiquities

To preserve, promote and serve as an advocate for virginia's irreplaceable historic places for cultural, economic and educational benefits for everyone.

Arts & Culture
10
Grand Banks Schooner Museum Trust
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11
Santa Monica Historical Society

Historical nbsp;preservation nbsp;and nbsp;education

Arts & Culture
12
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Savannah Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum 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

8 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. 8 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHIPS OF THE SEA MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $1,006,367 · OtherSHIPS OF THE SEA MARITIME MUSEUM INCBETH EDEN BAPTIST CHURCH: $181,008 · OtherBETH EDEN BAPTIST CHURCHHISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC: $162,615 · OtherHISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INCDOWNTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $90,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION+4 more: $105,000 · Other+4 moreSAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC: $425,000 · Arts & CultureSAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL…+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC: $75,000 · EducationTRUSTEES' GARDEN CLUB INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentCHATHAM-SAVANNAH CITIZEN ADVOCACY: $25,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,544,990Arts & Culture$430,000Education$75,000Environment$25,000Civil Rights$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHIPS OF THE SEA MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $1,006,367 over 5y, 35% of budgetSAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC: $425,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetHISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC: $162,615 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTRUSTEES' GARDEN CLUB INC: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE OSSABAW ISLAND FOUNDATIONINC: $25,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetCHATHAM-SAVANNAH CITIZEN ADVOCACY: $25,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetGEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

The Savannah Communit…The Adler Family Foun…The Frances and Bever…Colonial Foundation I…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Savannah Community Foundation IncGA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Savannah Community Foundation Inc · The Adler Family Foundation Inc · The Frances and Beverly Dubose Foundation Inc · Colonial Foundation Inc · 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 Beehive Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Beehive Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Beehive Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Beehive Foundation Inc 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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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