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Tiny Beam Fund Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$331k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fund
0172% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Animals$438kHealth$367kFood & Nutrition$106kEducation$97kEnvironment$61kCivil Rights$14kHuman Services$10kScience & Tech$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $217k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE$74,706
Individual grant recipient$40,000
RAISA RAMOS DE PINA$30,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
AQUATIC LIFE INSTITUTE$16,000
ANIMAL POLICY INTERNATIONAL (PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND HOLDING ACCOUNT)$15,540
Individual grant recipient$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$13,850
ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE GHANA$11,600
ASOCIACION PARA EL RESCATE Y BIENESTAR$9,300
INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE AND TRADE POLICY$8,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

Your US giving — 45% of grant dollars ($680k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 55% that went abroad ($844k) is mapped below.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SDSN ASSOCIATION INC: $7k → 17%SDSN ASSOCIATION INC: $4k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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MI
NY
MA
IA
PA
CA
CO
MD
DE
NM
NC
DC
HI
GA
TX

Beyond the US — 55% of all-years giving ($844k)

19 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$294k · 12 grants
Brazil$95k · 7 grants
Hungary$60k · 2 grants
Canada$53k · 3 grants
Argentina$40k · 2 grants
South Africa$36k · 3 grants
Australia$35k · 2 grants
Netherlands$35k · 2 grants
Vietnam$27k · 1 grant
Norway$25k · 2 grants

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$861k · 21 repeat orgs$663k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
41

Total granted

$861k
$608k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+32%

Still filing today

33%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationFood & NutritionInternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • AC
    ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS
    4× · 2020–2023 · $81k · revenue +51%
  • NY
    New York University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $72k · revenue +30%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +231%

Funded once

  • PA
    PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $34k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $27k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
3
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
4
Animal Agriculture Alliance

The animal agriculture alliance is a nonprofit organization that helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork. we connect food industry stakeholders, engage food chain influencers and promote consumer choice by helping key…

Food & Nutrition
5
The Food Alliance

Food alliance works at the juncture of science, business and values to define and promote sustainability in agriculture and the food industry, and to ensure safe and fair working conditions, humane treatment of animals, and careful…

Arts & Culture
6
A Just World

Our mission is to promote a world where all beings live a just life of dignity and respect. To this end, we engage in practical actions, raise funds, spread understanding and foster compassion.

Animals
7
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
8
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
9
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
10
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
11
Center for a Humane Economy Inc

There are many pathways for improving the lives of animals, but encouraging corporations to embed animal protection values into their production practices, supply chains, marketing efforts and research and development activities may be the…

Animals
12
Humane Farm Animal Care

Every farmer and rancher participating in the Certified Humane program had to modify their operations to meet the Animal Care Standards and be certified. Schedule O

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy for Animals Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York University. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE — $171,690 · OtherTHE ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient — $60,000 · OtherRAISA RAMOS DE PINA — $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $40,000 · Other+48 more — $816,169 · Other+48 moreANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS — $81,120 · AnimalsANIMAL CHAR…Animal Equality — $34,550 · AnimalsAnimal Equa…AQUATIC LIFE INSTITUTE INC — $24,000 · AnimalsAQUATIC LIF…THE HUMANE LEAGUE — $12,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE …+2 more — $4,055 · AnimalsNew York University — $71,547 · EducationEmory University — $12,500 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY — $36,000 · Food & NutritionGLOBAL FOOD PARTNERS INC — $13,000 · Food & NutritionBRIGHTER GREEN INC — $35,295 · EnvironmentWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE — $11,669 · InternationalSDSN ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · Human Services
Other$1,177,859Animals$155,725Education$84,047Food & Nutrition$49,000Environment$35,295International$11,669Human Services$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS — $81,120 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNew York University — $71,547 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY — $36,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBRIGHTER GREEN INC — $35,295 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetAnimal Equality — $34,550 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAQUATIC LIFE INSTITUTE INC — $24,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGLOBAL FOOD PARTNERS INC — $13,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEmory University — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE LEAGUE — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE — $11,669 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSDSN ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE AMERICA ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC — $1,555 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS
  • Who funds New York University
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY
  • Who funds BRIGHTER GREEN INC
  • Who funds Animal Equality
  • Who funds AQUATIC LIFE INSTITUTE INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Quinn FoundationKS17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Quinn Foundation · Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Humane America Animal Foundation · The Greenbaum Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Tiny Beam Fund Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Tiny Beam Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Tiny Beam Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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