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The Bruce a Beal & Robert L Beal 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.

$5k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
40%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 7
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$206k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations The Bruce a Beal & Robert L Beal Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyScience & TechHealthAnimalsEducationOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$5k0%
FY20245$40k40%
FY20234$265k25%
FY20222$3k50%
FY20217$3.2M43%
FY20203$800k33%
FY20196$476k83%
FY20174$86kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$2.3MArts & Culture$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.1MAnimals$174kScience & Tech$125kEducation$6kEnvironment$3k

Top grantees

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

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All grantees of The Bruce a Beal & Robert L Beal Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$2,250,0002n/a
Hebrew Senior Life Inc$1,000,00042%
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$167,00070%
Loggerhead Marinelife Center Inc$105,00011%
Morselife Health System Inc$60,00020%
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution$20,00010%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$14,00030%
Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England$6,50030%
Fordham University$5,00010%
Corey C Griffin Charitable Foundation$2,50010%
The American Chestnut Foundation$2,50010%
MJW Charitable Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Shady Hill School$50010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bruce a Beal & Robert L Beal Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc: $1,000,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetMassachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $167,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLoggerhead Marinelife Center Inc: $105,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMorselife Health System Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCorey C Griffin Charitable Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Chestnut Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMJW Charitable Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetShady Hill School: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 12.

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About The Bruce a Beal & Robert L Beal Family Foundation

How much does The Bruce a Beal & Robert L Beal Family Foundation give?
The Bruce a Beal & Robert L Beal Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $5,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Bruce a Beal & Robert L Beal Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (46%), Arts & Culture (27%), Philanthropy (21%).
Who are The Bruce a Beal & Robert L Beal Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($2.3M), Hebrew Senior Life Inc ($1.0M), Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($167k).
Does The Bruce a Beal & Robert L Beal Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Bruce a Beal & Robert L Beal Family 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.
Where is The Bruce a Beal & Robert L Beal Family Foundation based?
The Bruce a Beal & Robert L Beal Family Foundation is based in MA.

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 20 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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