How much does The Beir Foundation give?

The Beir Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $597,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does The Beir Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (76%), Arts & Culture (8%), Health (8%).

Who are The Beir Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Calhoun School Inc ($3.0M), Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc ($210k), The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association ($155k).

Does The Beir Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Beir Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Beir Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.

Where is The Beir Foundation based?

The Beir Foundation is based in NY.

Foundation Dossiers

New York · Private foundation

The Beir 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.

$597k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 5
Grants FY2025: 20
Organizations funded FY2024: 10%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $500,000
Organizations funded a year: 18 to 22; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $2.9M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The Beir Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesInternationalAnimalsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	4	$597k	0%
FY2024	20	$549k	10%
FY2023	21	$578k	14%
FY2022	19	$630k	5%
FY2021	18	$505k	0%
FY2020	22	$470k	14%
FY2019	20	$451k	25%
FY2017	20	$429k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.2MArts & Culture$326kHealth$324kPhilanthropy$139kHuman Services$91kReligion$52kInternational$20kAnimals$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Calhoun School Inc	$3,038,500	8	1%
Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc	$210,000	7	0%
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association	$155,000	7	0%
Bowdoin College	$102,500	3	0%
Cooke School and Institute	$91,000	6	0%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum	$80,000	7	0%
The Childrens Academy	$40,000	2	0%
Shining Stars Foundation	$40,000	7	2%
Aspen Valley Hospital Foundation	$35,000	7	0%
The New York Times Communities Fund	$31,200	5	0%

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All grantees of The Beir Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Calhoun School Inc	$3,038,500	8	1%
Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc	$210,000	7	0%
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association	$155,000	7	0%
Bowdoin College	$102,500	3	0%
Cooke School and Institute	$91,000	6	0%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum	$80,000	7	0%
The Childrens Academy	$40,000	2	0%
Shining Stars Foundation	$40,000	7	2%
Aspen Valley Hospital Foundation	$35,000	7	0%
The New York Times Communities Fund	$31,200	5	0%
Central Synagogue	$30,000	2	n/a
Jewish Resource Center Chabad Of	$22,000	7	n/a
International Rescue Committee INC	$20,000	1	0%
Visiting Nurse Service of New York	$14,000	7	0%
Fountain House Inc	$11,000	3	0%
Ethical Culture Fieldston School	$7,000	7	0%
Challenge Aspen	$7,000	4	0%
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation	$6,000	6	0%
Friends of the Aspen Animal Shelter	$5,000	5	0%
The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County	$5,000	1	0%
Anti-Defamation League	$3,500	7	0%
Citymeals-On-Wheels	$3,500	7	0%
Robin Hood Foundation	$3,000	3	0%
The Buddy Program Inc	$1,900	2	0%
Jazz at Aspen-Snowmass	$1,000	1	0%
Ascendigo Autism Services Inc	$800	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($245k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Beir Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY13.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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About The Beir Foundation

How much does The Beir Foundation give?: The Beir Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $597,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Beir Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (76%), Arts & Culture (8%), Health (8%).
Who are The Beir Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Calhoun School Inc ($3.0M), Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc ($210k), The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association ($155k).
Does The Beir Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Beir Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Beir Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
Where is The Beir Foundation based?: The Beir Foundation is based in NY.