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The Beeman Family Foundation at a glance

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The Beeman Family 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.

$45k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$243kReligion$169kHealth$83kPhilanthropy$12kScience & Tech$10kCivil Rights$5kYouth Development$3kHuman Services$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$270k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY$21,000
DREXEL UNIVERSITY$6,650
Individual grant recipient$4,600
Individual grant recipient$2,900
BLINK OF AN EYE$2,500
FOUNDING FORWARD$2,500
MAINL LINE HEALTH$1,000
THE FOUNDATION$1,000
CARDINAL O'HARA HIGH SCHOOL$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
LEADERSHIP NASHVILLE$500
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$300
COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS$250
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $6k → 6%PENN MEDICINE AT HOME: $5k → 7%SISTERS OF ST FRANCIS OF PHILA: $5k → 10%APOSTLES OF JESUS: $5k → 11%ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY: $34k → 11%COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPH: $5k → 22%TRAUMA RESILIENCY RESOLUTION: $3k → 17%MALTA- FEDERAL: $3k → 14%DEBBINK FAMILY FOUNDATION: $11k → 5%ICTHAT: $10k → 7%BLINK OF AN EYE: $3k → 19%FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP: $8k → 6%PA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES BUILD: $10k → 9%APOSTLES OF JESUS: $3k → 11%ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY: $33k → 11%MALTA- FEDERAL: $3k → 14%BALTIMORE MEDIATION: $4k → 19%FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP: $6k → 6%PA COLLEGE OF HEALTH: $5k → 9%WIDNER UNIVERSITY: $3k → 10%ALVERNIA COLLEGE: $8k → 11%FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP: $6k → 6%SALUS UNIVERSITY: $8k → 7%LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL: $5k → 9%UNION LEAGUE LEGACY: $3k → 22%FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP: $6k → 6%SALUS UNIVERSITY: $8k → 7%FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $5k → 6%SALUS UNIVERSITY: $7k → 7%ST MARY'S CHURCH: $50k → 9%ST JOHN NEUMANN PARISH: $11k → 10%FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP: $5k → 6%SALUS UNIVERSITY: $7k → 7%ST MARY'S CHURCH: $49k → 9%ST JOHN NEUMANN PARISH: $11k → 10%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $7k → 22%LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $12k → 9%ST JOHN NEUMANN PARISH: $10k → 10%REV DEOGRATIAS RWEGASRIRA AJ: $5k → 9%REV DEOGRATIAS RWEGASRIRA AJ: $5k → 9%SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $22k → 22%APOSTLES OF JESUS: $5k → 9%SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $21k → 22%SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $21k → 22%SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $19k → 22%SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $18k → 22%SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $13k → 22%SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $13k → 22%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

IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
MO
MD
TN
DC
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$489k · 24 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
24

Total granted

$489k
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+62%

Still filing today

38%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SJ
    SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $124k · revenue +34%
  • AU
    ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $66k · revenue +51%
  • SU
    SALUS UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • LG
    LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +62%
  • DF
    DEBBINK FAMILY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +28%
  • PC
    PA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES BUILD
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
2
Seton Hill University

Comprehensive institution of higher learning providing undergraduate and graduate student education.

Education
3
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
4
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
5
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
6
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
7
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
8
Desales University

Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.

Education
9
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
10
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
11
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
12
Benedictine College

Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lancaster General Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Debbink Family Foundation 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

16 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. 16 of the 53 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARY'S CHURCH: $99,000 · OtherST MARY'S CHURCHALVERNIA UNIVERSITY: $66,000 · OtherALVERNIA UNIVERSITYSALUS UNIVERSITY: $34,400 · OtherSALUS UNIVERSITYST JOHN NEUMANN PARISH: $32,000 · OtherST JOHN NEUMANN PARISHIndividual grant recipient: $28,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBLINK OF AN EYE: $13,500 · Other+35 more: $124,135 · Other+35 moreSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $124,000 · EducationSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITYFIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC: $11,500 · EducationFIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP PRO…DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $6,650 · EducationWIDENER UNIVERSITY: $5,500 · Education+2 more: $2,300 · EducationLANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $12,300 · PhilanthropyDEBBINK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $11,400 · PhilanthropyLANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL: $6,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 · HealthFOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION): $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentLANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY: $1,000 · Environment
Other$397,735Education$149,950Philanthropy$23,700Health$6,500Youth Development$2,500Environment$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $124,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALVERNIA UNIVERSITY: $66,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSALUS UNIVERSITY: $34,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $12,300 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC: $11,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetDEBBINK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $11,400 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $6,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWIDENER UNIVERSITY: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA: $5,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION): $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 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.

  • Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SALUS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FIGHTING BACK SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds DEBBINK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds WIDENER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION) ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA11.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Beeman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Beeman Family 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–15%
    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 53 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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