Skip to content
Theo B Bean Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Theo B Bean 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.

$129k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$277kHealth$146kReligion$100kArts & Culture$100kAnimals$49kEnvironment$32kHuman Services$31kYouth Development$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k39 grants · $99k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
$2,500
Median grant
14
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA$10,500
COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL$10,000
ALS ASSOCIATION OF GA$10,000
VINTAGE RACERS FOR RESCUES$5,000
PHOEBE PUTNEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$5,000
ASCENSION EPISCOPAL SCHOOLS$5,000
TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH$5,000
MAYO CLINIC$5,000
WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL$5,000
CANTERBURY SCHOOL$4,209
UNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$4,209
EMORY UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT$4,000
ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER$4,000
THE WESTMINSTER SCHOOLS$4,000
BONEFISH TARPON TRUST$3,180
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $3k) 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%HOSPICE OF ACADIANA: $3k → 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

NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$667k · 41 repeat orgs$136k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
42

Total granted

$667k
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+9%

Still filing today

49%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CS
    CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +51%
  • WF
    WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +47%
  • AE
    ASCENSION EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • TS
    TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (CLIVE DAVIS - NEW YORK UNIVERSITY)
    one grant, 2018 · $9k
  • TS
    TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (CLIVE DAVIS-NYU)
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • HC
    HARVARD COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
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
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
5
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
6
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
7
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
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
9
Boston Architectural College

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

—
10
Stony Brook Urology 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
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rehoboth Ranch Ministries 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

46 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. 46 of the 103 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
23/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $58,500 · OtherTHE BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $38,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $37,900 · OtherTHE BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $36,779 · OtherIndividual grant recipientASCENSION EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $32,500 · OtherASCENSION EPISCOPAL SCHOOLHARVARD COLLEGE FUND - CLASS OF 2017: $32,000 · OtherHARVARD COLLEGE FUND - CLASS OF 2017THE UNITED THEATER: $20,000 · Other+65 more: $270,216 · Other+65 moreCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC: $44,778 · EducationCANTERBURY SCHOOL IN…WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $40,000 · EducationWOODBERRY FOREST SCH…UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $30,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE SO…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $20,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLU…The Westminster Schools Inc: $8,000 · EducationUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLe: $7,607 · Education+6 more: $9,021 · Education+6 moreMAYO CLINIC: $53,234 · HealthMAYO CLINICCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $17,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S …BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,369 · HealthBLOOD CANCE…PHOEBE PUTNEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · HealthPHOEBE PUTN…+4 more: $6,500 · Health+4 moreVINTAGE RACERS FOR RESCUES INC: $25,000 · AnimalsBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $20,304 · Animals+2 more: $1,000 · AnimalsINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $21,500 · Arts & CultureCHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $6,685 · Arts & CultureATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC: $14,607 · Science & TechATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $7,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$525,895Education$159,406Health$92,603Animals$46,304Arts & Culture$33,185Science & Tech$14,607Food & Nutrition$7,500

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 budgetMAYO CLINIC: $53,234 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC: $44,778 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetASCENSION EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $32,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVINTAGE RACERS FOR RESCUES INC: $25,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $21,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $20,304 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPIRIT OF ALEXANDRIA FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $15,571 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC: $14,607 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,369 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Westminster Schools Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLe: $7,607 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $6,685 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPHOEBE PUTNEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC: $4,209 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATH FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council: $3,823 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF ACADIANA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYAMPA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILL REEF FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetATLANTA-FULTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFLINT RIVER COUNCIL INC 95 SCOUTING AMERICA: $1,457 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIRDSONG NATURE CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBMI FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONSERVATION FORCE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA PREGNANCY CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOSEPHINE HERRICK PROJECT INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ASCENSION EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
  • Who funds VINTAGE RACERS FOR RESCUES INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SPIRIT OF ALEXANDRIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds The Westminster Schools Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLe ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM 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 Ayco Charitable F…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY11.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Theo B Bean Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Theo B Bean Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Tall Timbers Research Inc: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report 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.

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 103 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Theo B Bean’s filings →

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