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The Bruce a Beal & Robert L Beal Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$206k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MSPCA ANGELL$3,500
ZOO NEW ENGLAND$1,500
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $20k → 8%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $1.0M → 16%NYU LANGONE HEALTH: $10k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH: $50k → 11%THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%HARVARD ART MUSEUMS: $164k → 8%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $200k → 16%FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: $5k → 17%LOGGERHEAD MARINE LIFE CENTER: $105k → 11%SHADY HILL SCHOOL: $500 → 8%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL: $1k → 16%MORSELIFE HEALTH SYSTEM: $50k → 11%HEBREW SENIOR LIFE: $250k → 16%MORSELIFE HEALTH SYSTEM: $10k → 11%HEBREW SENIOR LIFE: $250k → 16%THE PROMISE FUND: $5k → 11%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $1.3M → 16%HEBREW SENIOR LIFE: $250k → 16%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $500k → 16%HEBREW SENIOR LIFE: $250k → 16%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $500k → 16%MJW CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 16%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $10k → 16%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $3k → 16%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $2k → 16%ZOO NEW ENGLAND: $3k → 16%ZOO NEW ENGLAND: $3k → 16%ZOO NEW ENGLAND: $2k → 16%MSPCA ANGELL: $80k → 16%MSPCA ANGELL: $63k → 16%MSPCA ANGELL: $5k → 16%MSPCA ANGELL: $5k → 16%MSPCA ANGELL: $5k → 16%MSPCA ANGELL: $4k → 16%MSPCA ANGELL: $3k → 16%MSPCA ANGELL: $3k → 16%MSPCA ANGELL: $1k → 16%COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES: $25k → 16%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 7 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
10

Total granted

$4.7M
$153k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+14%

Still filing today

71%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyAnimalsEducationScience & TechEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    7× · 2017–2025 · $167k · revenue +115%
  • MH
    MORSELIFE HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $60k · revenue +77%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $14k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • LM
    LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $105k · revenue +20%
  • WH
    WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • NL
    NYU LANGONE HEALTH
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
3
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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4
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
5
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
9
North Shore Health System Medical Faculty Group Practice

North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…

Health
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fordham University; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $2,250,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $1,200,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON+4 more: $76,000 · OtherHebrew Senior Life Inc: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyHebrew Senior Life IncJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $50,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $28,500 · PhilanthropyMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $167,000 · AnimalsCOMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND: $6,500 · AnimalsPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $164,000 · Education+2 more: $5,500 · EducationLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $105,000 · Science & TechWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $20,000 · Science & TechDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $14,000 · HealthTHE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Environment
Other$3,526,000Philanthropy$1,078,500Animals$173,500Education$169,500Science & Tech$125,000Health$14,000Environment$2,500

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

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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $164,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $105,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMORSELIFE HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England: 2% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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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