How much did THE BETA FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Health$2.0MArts & Culture$320kPhilanthropy$150kCivil Rights$130kSocial Science$110kEducation$100kRecreation & Sports$71kReligion$50kHuman Services$35kOther$716k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

—

2020

brooklynresearchhousing

2021

researchmedical

2022

medicalfractured atlas

2023

artsmedical

2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $23k
$10k–50k6 grants · $70k
$50k–250k4 grants · $393k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants

PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$150,000
OSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$133,000
HUDSON INSTITUTE$60,000
COMMENTARY INC$50,000
HOME START INC$20,000
SEATTLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA$10,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$10,000
PROTEZ FOUNDATION$10,000
HERITAGE PROJECTS FOUNDATION INC$10,000
ELM FOUNDATION INC$10,000
FRACTURED ATLAS$6,000
THE OLD STONE HOUSE$5,000
EDWARD R MURROW HS$5,000
CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS INC$3,000
THE SHED$1,100

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.9M · 19 repeat orgs$807k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.9M

$396k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%

+113%

Still filing today

68%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $411k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthSocial ScienceInternationalCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

TC
Texas Children's Hospital
3× · 2020–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +58%
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
3× · 2021–2023 · $600k · revenue +20%
Fractured Atlas
6× · 2018–2024 · $190k · revenue +50%

Funded once

IR
Ichor Research Institute Inc
one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -77%
BC
Brooklyn Community Fund
one grant, 2020 · $50k
Razom Incgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +25128%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

To raise funds to support the operations and secure the israel philharmonic's financial future.

Arts & Culture

Berggruen Institute

Education

The Feinstein Institutes for

The feinstein institute for medical research strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to finding new advances in medicine through research

Health

The Contemporary Jewish Museum

Makes the diversity of jewish experience relevant through art & programs that challenge & inspire.

Arts & Culture

Zecher Avrohom Inc

To provide disadvantaged children and their parents with the tools to become productive, independent and successful.

Religion

Maimonides Medical Center

Maimonides medical center is dedicated to fostering healthy communities. we provide high quality, compassionate patient care and comprehensive community services. as a premier academic medical center, we are devoted to educating health…

Health

Peter Cohen Foundation

Health

New York Academy of Sciences

To advance scientific knowledge and to increase the number of scientifically informed individuals.

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International Contemporary Art

Arts & Culture

Moskowitz Prize for Zionism Inc

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Abrams Ramat Gan Foundation

Philanthropy

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oshman Family Jewish Community Center and the most unlike its peers is Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/24

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,541

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/24

Grantees still filing

19/24

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Health$2,045,000Other$871,735Arts & Culture$320,000Philanthropy$150,000Civil Rights$130,000Social Science$110,000Education$100,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundNY12.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation THE BETA FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Seattle Chamber Orchestra.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 871447746 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Seattle Chamber Orchestra, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 29% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Beta Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Beta Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE BETA FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?