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Van Beuren Charitable Foundation 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k79 grants · $326k
- $10k–50k84 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k46 grants · $4.7M
- $250k+11 grants · $7.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEWPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $2,128,280 |
| PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY | $1,545,000 |
| NEWPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,195,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,010,000 |
| NEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $365,000 |
| NEWPORT COUNTY YMCA | $325,000 |
| NEWPORT COUNTY COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER | $299,128 |
| MIDDLETOWN PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $281,500 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND | $275,000 |
| EAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM | $252,821 |
| BUTLER HOSPITAL | $250,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION FOR INFANT MENTAL HEALTH | $199,395 |
| RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN | $173,900 |
| IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY | $172,000 |
| NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $155,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–24, $5.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
225 repeat relationships — 164 still active in FY2024, 61 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TPTHE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +86%
- NHNewport Hospital Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +9% · 58% of their budget
Boys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +169% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RIone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +10%
LA FARGE FOUNDATION OF NEWPORTone grant, 2022 · $268k · revenue -89% · 32% of their budget- UOUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND RESEARCH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +126%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
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…
The university of rhode island alumni association informs and engages current and future alumni as committed partners of the university, its missions and traditions.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To be a proactive advocate for the hospitals in rhode island that is capable of working for and with the hospitals to positively influence public opinion, legislative outcomes and regulatory policy. the purpose of such advocacy is to…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of New York. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
263 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 263 of the 348 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Newport Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc ↗
- Who funds NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Hospital ↗
- Who funds IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVE RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT COUNTY COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT COUNTY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT FILM INC ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORMAN BIRD SANCTUARY TRUST ↗
- Who funds FABNEWPORT INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT PARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds BELMONT CHAPEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Association for Infant Mental Health ↗
- Who funds Strategic Prevention Partnerships Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHN CLARKE RETIREMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Newport Tree Conservancy ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GROW SMART RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION 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.
Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Ejmp Fund for Philanthropy · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Bazarsky Family Foundation · Gruben Charitable Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · The de Ramel Foundation · The Beacon Foundation
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 Van Beuren Charitable Foundation 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.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Gnome Inc — 4% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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