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The Paul Beirne Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Paul Beirne Foundation Inc

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.

$108k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$246kPhilanthropy$243kFood & Nutrition$183kEducation$78kHealth$46kCivil Rights$26kPublic Benefit$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER$25,000
CLINTON FOUNDATION$25,000
NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$20,000
WOLFSONIANFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY$10,000
AMFAR THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH$5,000
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC$3,000
FRIENDS OF POOL INC$2,500
WOLFSONIANFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY$2,000
CITIZENS UNION FOUNDATION$1,500
SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION$1,500
FOUR FREEDOMS PARK CONSERVANCY$1,000
NEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS$1,000
ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$1,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO (WQXR)$1,000
SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE$1,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $900 → 17%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $250 → 17%THE PRINCE'S FOUNDATION AMERICA: $10k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $350 → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $1k → 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

AK
WA
NY
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC
TX
FL
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$744k · 44 repeat orgs$217k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
75

Total granted

$744k
$169k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+2%

Still filing today

66%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • GL
    GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $171k · revenue +226%
  • BH
    BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $163k · revenue +26%
  • GM
    GRACIE MANSION CONSERVANCY
    5× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +179%

Funded once

  • FF
    FUTURE FORWARD ACTION GROUP
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • TW
    THE WOLFSONIAN MUSEUM
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • TK
    THE KING'S FOUNDATION AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +153%
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.

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Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
4
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
5
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
6
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
7
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
8
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
11
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Site-Specicific Dances 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

84 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 84 of the 135 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/84
Grantees still filing
48/84
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE PRINCE OF WALES FOUNDATION: $85,000 · OtherTHE PRINCE OF WALES FOUNDATIONFUTURE FORWARD ACTION GROUP: $25,000 · OtherFUTURE FORWARD ACTION GROUPINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $22,900 · OtherINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INCWOLFSONIAN INC: $20,000 · OtherWOLFSONIAN INCSEEDS OF PEACE WALK: $12,300 · OtherWOLFSONIANFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $12,000 · Other+84 more: $179,400 · Other+84 moreGRACIE MANSION CONSERVANCY: $56,000 · Arts & CultureGRACIE MANSION CONSER…WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $28,500 · Arts & CultureWORLD MONUMENTS FUND …New Museum of Contemporary Art: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNew Museum of Contemp…FOUR FREEDOMS PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $11,750 · Arts & CultureFOUR FREEDOMS PARK CO…FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE HIGH L…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $7,500 · Arts & Culture+23 more: $48,750 · Arts & Culture+23 moreBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $162,500 · HealthBILL HILLARY & CHELSE…+6 more: $17,100 · Health+6 moreGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $170,500 · Food & NutritionGOD'S LOVE WE DELIV…THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $34,000 · EducationNEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $2,250 · EducationThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $1,500 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 · Crime & LegalWATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC: $9,750 · Community ImprovementTHE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY: $5,000 · Community ImprovementCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK CITY INC: $3,000 · Community Improvement
Other$356,600Arts & Culture$182,500Health$179,600Food & Nutrition$170,500Education$38,750Crime & Legal$23,000Community Improvement$17,750

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 budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $170,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $162,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PRINCE OF WALES FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGRACIE MANSION CONSERVANCY: $56,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $34,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $28,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $22,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUR FREEDOMS PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $11,750 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $10,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $10,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KING'S FOUNDATION AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC: $9,750 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABZYME RESEARCH FOUNDATION co Jamie Drake Design: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZENS UNION FOUNDATION INC OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $4,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEARST CASTLE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK CITY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DISTRICTS INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCITIZENS UNION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,750 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPUBLIC ART FUND INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSONG FOR CHARLIE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOSE LIMON DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 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.

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.

The Ford FoundationThe New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundMay and Samuel Rudin …Ag FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…J & Ar FoundationAnna-Maria and Stephe…Arnhold Foundation IncLily Auchincloss Foun…The Jm Kaplan Fund IncThe Tang Fund
The Ford FoundationNY22.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Ag Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · J & Ar Foundation · Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Inc C/O Joel E Sammet & Co LLP · Arnhold Foundation Inc · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · The Tang Fund

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Paul Beirne Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Paul Beirne Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 135 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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