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The Thomas W Bean Foundation at a glance

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The Thomas W Bean Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$487k
Granted FY2020
74
Grants FY2020
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
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0186% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$113kEducation$88kHuman Services$29kArts & Culture$28kCivil Rights$24kRecreation & Sports$21kYouth Development$19kFood & Nutrition$15kOther$0
02FY2020 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 74 grants below total $405,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $487,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $82,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k70 grants · $359k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $46k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Food Bank of the Rockies$15,000
Alpha Phi Alpha-GEH Scholarship Endowment$11,000
DKAPSF$10,000
United Negro College Fund, Inc.$10,000
Epsilon Nu Omega Chapter Endowment Fund$9,000
Owl Club of Denver Scholarship Fund Inc.$9,000
Urban League of Denver$8,000
Colorado School of Mines Dept of Athletics - Varsity Baseball$7,000
Cure d'Ars Catholic Community$7,000
EAFAF-Scholarship Fund$7,000
EAFAF-Student Assistance Fund$7,000
Friends of I.B. Scholars Foundation at George Washington High School$7,000
Knights of Peter Claver, Ladies Auxiliary, Court 261$7,000
Porter-Billups Leadership Academy$7,000
The White Rose Foundation c/o The Links$7,000
02Its 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
Gaines-Jones Scholars
Philanthropy
2
Denver Scholarship Foundation

Denver scholarship foundation (dsf) inspires and empowers denver public schools (dps) students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education by providing the tools, knowledge, and financial resources for…

Education
3
Evans Scholars Foundation - Colorado

Educational

Education
4
The Elway Foundation
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5
Young Black Scholar Institute
Community Improvement
6
Schuler Education Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Gardner Family Teacher Scholarships
Philanthropy
8
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
9
Parents Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays of Denver

Support education and advocacy for LGBTQ + people and families

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10
The Gladstone Scholarship & Student Loan Foundation
Philanthropy
11
The Siebel Scholars Foundation
Philanthropy
12
The Juliana Greenfield Family Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Summer Scholars; the most unlike its peers is Caldwell Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 74 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+63 more: $329,000 · Other+63 moreAlpha Phi Alpha GEH Scholarship: $11,000 · EducationAlpha Phi A…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $10,000 · EducationUNITED NEGR…DELTA ETA BOULE FOUNDATION: $6,000 · EducationDELTA ETA B…SUMMER SCHOLARS: $6,000 · EducationSUMMER SCHO…GARFIELD MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $4,000 · EducationGARFIELD MO…YOUTHROOTS: $4,000 · EducationYOUTHROOTSFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $15,000 · Food & NutritionCaldwell Family Foundation: $6,000 · PhilanthropyJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropySHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 · HealthSEASONED WITH GRACE UNBOXED: $4,000 · Human Services
Other$329,000Education$41,000Food & Nutrition$15,000Philanthropy$11,000Health$5,000Human Services$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlpha Phi Alpha GEH Scholarship: $11,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaldwell Family Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetDELTA ETA BOULE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Association of Black Professional Engineers & Scientists: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEASONED WITH GRACE UNBOXED: $4,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetGARFIELD MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $4,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYOUTHROOTS: $4,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds Alpha Phi Alpha GEH Scholarship ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Caldwell Family Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DELTA ETA BOULE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SUMMER SCHOLARS ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Colorado Association of Black Professional Engineers & Scientists ↗
  • Who funds JUDI'S HOUSE INC ↗

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 Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Colorado Gives Founda…Mile High United Way …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Denver FoundationCO14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · 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.
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How do I get to The Thomas W Bean Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Thomas W Bean Foundation 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 74 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $620k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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