How much does The Bete Family Foundation give?

The Bete Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $102,261 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Bete Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Food & Nutrition (19%), Crime & Legal (17%).

Who are The Bete Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Center for New Americans Inc ($98k), Franklin County Community Meals Program Inc ($81k), The Literacy Project ($58k).

Does The Bete Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Bete Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Bete Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region, Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, Agnes M Lindsay Trust.

Where is The Bete Family Foundation based?

The Bete Family Foundation is based in MA.

The Bete Family Foundation

The Bete Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Bete Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$102k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$131kFood & Nutrition$96kCrime & Legal$86kArts & Culture$60kEducation$49kHousing & Shelter$34kHealth$29kYouth Development$18kOther$0

02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k6 grants · $12k
$10k–50k6 grants · $90k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CENTER FOR NEW AMERICANS	$20,000
FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY MEALS	$15,000
THE HEARTWING CENTER	$15,000
HILLTOWN YOUTH PERFORMING ARTS	$15,000
STONE SOUP CAF	$15,000
THE LITERACY PROJECT	$10,000
TWICE AS SMART	$5,000
THE UNITED ARC	$4,961
ANERA	$1,200
FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS	$400
DAKIN HUMANE SOCIETY	$400
STONLEIGH BURNHAM EQUESTRIAN CENTER	$300

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of The Bete Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 86%.

The Bete Family Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$574k · 21 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$574k

$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+18%

Still filing today

48%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCivil RightsInternationalAnimalsEnvironmentHealthOther

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

CF
CENTER FOR NEW AMERICANS INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $98k · revenue +75%
FC
FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY MEALS PROGRAM INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $81k · revenue +25%
TL
THE LITERACY PROJECT
6× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +51%

Funded once

UA
UNITED ARC OF FRANKLIN & HAMPSHIRE COUNTIES
one grant, 2020 · $9k
CS
COURAGEOUS STRIDES THERAPUDIC RIDING
one grant, 2020 · $2k
Teach for America Inc
one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +5%

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.

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

National Women's Law Center

To advance and protect women's legal rights. the center focuses on major policy areas of importance to women and their families including education, employment, family economic security, and health, with special attention given to the…

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International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International

The Children's Law Center

To provide legal services to indigent children in contested custody/ visitation and related cases.

Crime & Legal

Women's Care Center Inc

Offer life-affirming choices for pregnancy and sexual health.

Health

The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc

The center for reproductive rights ("the center") is an international non-governmental organization that uses the power of law to advance reproductive rights as fundamental human rights around the world.

Civil Rights

Liberty Justice Center

To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…

Crime & Legal

Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights

Ibis Reproductive Health Inc

Ibis reproductive health drives change through bold, rigorous research and principled partnerships that advance sexual and reproductive autonomy, choices and health worldwide.

Health

Nijc Nfp

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is a leader in advancing immigrant rights through its unique strategy drawing on its legal services to promote legal reform through litigation, advocacy and strategic communications.

Crime & Legal

National Institute for Reproductive Health Inc

National institute for reproductive health, inc. works to protect and advance equitable access to reproductive health care by building power at the state and local level. using an approach that is rooted in partnerships with state and…

Civil Rights

The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Literacy Project; the most unlike its peers is Franklin County Community Meals Program Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 43 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/22

Grantees still filing

14/22

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$564,865Food & Nutrition$30,000Human Services$10,911Environment$5,000Civil Rights$3,800International$2,800Animals$1,400

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

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.

United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire RegionMA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Bete Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bete Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home