· Private foundation
Vaughn L and Eleanore M Beals Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of VAUGHN L AND ELEANORE M BEALS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY GREATER NORTH | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $60,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND | $20,000 |
| MUSEUM OF NORTHERN ARIZONA | $20,000 |
| MIT | $10,000 |
| BUFFALO STATE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DESERT FOOTHILLS LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| ACF - VI AT SILVERSTONE FUND | $5,000 |
| HEARD MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS KENTUCKY | $2,000 |
| DESERT FOOTHILLS LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +38% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2018–2022 · $65k · revenue +32%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +39%
- THTHE HEARD MUSEUM8× · 2018–2025 · $33k · revenue +191%
Funded once
- SHSCHROEPPEL HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -69% · 36% of their budget
- ACAMERICAN CARE HOMESone grant, 2024 · $5k
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Improving health, healing people.
Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.
To coordinate the planning, development, and promotion of the arizona trail for recreational and educational experiences of nonmotorized trail users.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Improving health, healing people.
Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Northern Arizona Inc and the most unlike its peers is Born Again Pit Bull Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 36 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
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 Museum of Northern Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DESERT FOOTHILLS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE HEARD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds DESERT FOOTHILLS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds SCHROEPPEL HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WILD AT HEART INC ↗
- Who funds HILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Foothills Caring Corps Inc ↗
- Who funds BORN AGAIN PIT BULL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Gig Harbor Peninsula Firefighters Association ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Foothills Food Bank ↗
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: Arizona Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · Kiwanis Club of Carefree Benefit Fd · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Vaughn L and Eleanore M Beals Charitable Foundation 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.
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.