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The Beta Foundation

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.

$486k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$2.8MArts & Culture$344kInternational$175kCivil Rights$161kHuman Services$133kEducation$115kHousing & Shelter$90kRecreation & Sports$71kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $393k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
HERITAGE PROJECTS FOUNDATION INC$10,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$10,000
ELM FOUNDATION INC$10,000
SEATTLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA$10,000
PROTEZ FOUNDATION$10,000
FRACTURED ATLAS$6,000
THE OLD STONE HOUSE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS INC$3,000
#ENDJEWHATRED THE LAWFARE PROJECT$1,100
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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOME START INC: $20k → 16%PROTEZ Foundation: $25k → 6%SENS Research Foundation: $250k → 8%Cedars-Sinai Medical Center: $250k → 14%American Federation for Aging Research: $100k → 17%Prospect Park Alliance: $20k → 20%Banana Kelly: $10k → 28%Texas Children's Hospital: $795k → 16%HUDSON INSTITUTE: $60k → 14%DISCOVERY TO CURE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 11%Ichor Research Institute Inc: $250k → 12%American Indian College Fund: $20k → 10%SEATTLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $10k → 9%HOME START INC: $15k → 16%PROTEZ FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%SENS Research Foundation: $10k → 8%Cedars-Sinai Medical Center: $250k → 14%American Federation for Aging Research: $10k → 17%Prospect Park Alliance: $11k → 20%Banana Kelly: $10k → 28%Texas Children's Hospital: $205k → 16%The Pension Rights Center: $25k → 14%American Indian College Fund: $20k → 10%SEATTLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $10k → 9%HomeStart Inc: $10k → 16%PROTEZ FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%OSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $133k → 8%CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 14%Texas Children's Hospital: $125k → 16%The Pension Rights Center: $25k → 14%AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $20k → 10%Texas Children's Hospital: $125k → 16%The Pension Rights Center: $25k → 14%Texas Children's Hospital: $125k → 16%The Pension Rights Center: $25k → 14%Fractured Atlas: $80k → 17%Texas Children's Hospital: $125k → 16%FRACTURED ATLAS: $40k → 17%The Pension Rights Center: $20k → 14%Fractured Atlas: $25k → 17%Fractured Atlas: $20k → 17%Fractured Atlas: $12k → 17%Brooklyn Community Fund: $50k → 20%HERITAGE PROJECTS FOUNDATION INC: $65k → 17%Razom Inc: $25k → 17%St Thomas Church: $10k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $150k → 17%COMMENTARY INC: $50k → 17%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

WA
MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
DC
TX
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.
$3.3M · 19 repeat orgs$647k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -24% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
13

Total granted

$3.3M
$386k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
-24%

Still filing today

84%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $261k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthSocial ScienceCommunity ImprovementInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospital
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.5M · revenue +69%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    3× · 2021–2023 · $600k · revenue +31%
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $190k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • IR
    ICHOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -98%
  • BC
    Brooklyn Community Fund
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • RAZOM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $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
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
Berggruen Institute
Education
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
5
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
7
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
8
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
9
Cancer Research Institute Inc

See schedule ocri is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cancer immunotherapy through scientific discovery and global collaboration. since 1953, cri has funded research that deepens understanding of the immune system and its…

Health
10
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
11
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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12
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Space Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Seattle Chamber Orchestra. 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

29 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. 29 of the 41 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
14/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Texas Children's Hospital: $1,500,000 · HealthTexas Children's HospitalCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $600,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTERLifespan Research Institution: $260,000 · HealthLifespan Research InstitutionICHOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $250,000 · HealthICHOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC+3 more: $72,300 · HealthOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $133,000 · OtherOSHMAN FAMILY JE…Hudson Institute Inc: $60,000 · OtherHudson Institute…BEAM CENTER INC: $50,000 · OtherBEAM CENTER INCBrooklyn Community Fund: $50,000 · OtherBrooklyn Communi…Individual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherThe Old Stone House: $29,200 · OtherPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $70,500 · OtherPROSPECT PARK AL…COMMENTARY INC: $50,000 · OtherCOMMENTARY INCHomeStart Inc: $45,000 · OtherHomeStart IncRAZOM INC: $25,000 · Other+12 more: $64,135 · Other+12 moreFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $190,000 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE PROJECTS FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $32,600 · Arts & CulturePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyPension Rights Center: $130,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC: $110,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $100,000 · Education
Health$2,682,300Other$606,835Arts & Culture$322,600Philanthropy$150,000Civil Rights$130,000Social Science$110,000Education$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $1,500,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLifespan Research Institution: $260,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetICHOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $190,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $133,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPension Rights Center: $130,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC: $110,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $100,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE PROJECTS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $70,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHudson Institute Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROTEZ FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetBEAM CENTER INC: $50,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMENTARY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHomeStart Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRAZOM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $25,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBrooklyn Music School Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDISCOVERY TO CURE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetNORTH FORK ARTS CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetELM FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEWARK PUBLIC RADIO INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHED NYC INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHOLD FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Jewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…Verizon FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Network for Good
Jewish Communal FundNY13.8× affinity6 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 · Verizon Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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 Beta Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Beta Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 51%
  • Newark Public Radio Inc: 51% of income from government
  • HomeStart Inc: 20% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 41 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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