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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.

$236k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
30%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 20
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$4.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Vaughn L and Eleanore M Beals Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureAnimalsEducationRecreation & SportsReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$236k0%
FY202420$261k30%
FY202313$173k8%
FY202215$246k7%
FY202119$238k21%
FY202012$191k8%
FY201918$212k56%
FY201812$215kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$1.3MArts & Culture$163kScience & Tech$80kPhilanthropy$79kEducation$66kHuman Services$26kEnvironment$22kRecreation & Sports$12kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
CA
KY
VA
AZ
KS
AR
NC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 18 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Vaughn L and Eleanore M Beals Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMuseum of Northern Arizona Inc: $115,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease Research Foundation: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDesert Foothills Library Association: $42,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetThe Heard Museum: $32,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDesert Foothills Land Trust: $22,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetSpecial Olympics Kentucky Inc: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSchroeppel Historical Society: $10,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetWild at Heart Inc: $9,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHilltop Artists in Residence: $5,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoothills Caring Corps Inc: $4,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGig Harbor Peninsula Firefighters Association: $2,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoothills Food Bank: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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About Vaughn L and Eleanore M Beals Charitable Foundation

How much does Vaughn L and Eleanore M Beals Charitable Foundation give?
Vaughn L and Eleanore M Beals Charitable Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $236,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Vaughn L and Eleanore M Beals Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (73%), Arts & Culture (9%), Science & Tech (5%).
Who are Vaughn L and Eleanore M Beals Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Museum of Northern Arizona Inc ($115k), Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc ($65k), Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation ($50k).
Does Vaughn L and Eleanore M Beals Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Vaughn L and Eleanore M Beals Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Vaughn L and Eleanore M Beals Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, American Express Foundation, Kiwanis Club of Carefree Benefit Fd.
Where is Vaughn L and Eleanore M Beals Charitable Foundation based?
Vaughn L and Eleanore M Beals Charitable Foundation is based in WA.

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 36 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.

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