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Vaughn L and Eleanore M Beals Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY GREATER NORTH$100,000
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY$60,000
MUSEUM OF NORTHERN ARIZONA$20,000
CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FOOTHILLS CARING CORPS: $1k → 11%FOOTHILLS CARING CORPS: $1k → 11%FOOTHILLS CARING CORPS: $1k → 11%FOOTHILLS CARING CORPS: $1k → 11%FOOTHILLS CARING CORPS: $500 → 11%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

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WI
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CA
KY
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AR
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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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 20 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
15

Total granted

$1.7M
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
0%

Still filing today

55%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $65k · revenue +32%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +39%
  • TH
    THE HEARD MUSEUM
    8× · 2018–2025 · $33k · revenue +191%

Funded once

  • SH
    SCHROEPPEL HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -69% · 36% of their budget
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CARE HOMES
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
2
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
3
Flagstaff Medical Center

Improving health, healing people.

Health
4
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
5
Arizona Trail Association

To coordinate the planning, development, and promotion of the arizona trail for recreational and educational experiences of nonmotorized trail users.

Public Benefit
6
Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum
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7
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
8
Northern Arizona Healthcare Corporation

Improving health, healing people.

Health
9
Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Foundation

Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.

Health
10
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
11
The Dons of Arizona
Education
12
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

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…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Northern Arizona Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY GREATER NORTH: $740,000 · OtherMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY GREATER NORTHNATIONAL MS SOCIETY: $420,000 · OtherNATIONAL MS SOCIETYMIT: $80,000 · OtherMITBUFFALO STATE FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Other+17 more: $87,500 · Other+17 moreMuseum of Northern Arizona Inc: $115,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of …THE HEARD MUSEUM: $32,500 · Arts & CultureTHE HEARD …SCHROEPPEL HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSCHROEPPEL…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $65,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Health+2 more: $3,000 · HealthDESERT FOOTHILLS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $42,500 · EducationHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE: $5,500 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationDESERT FOOTHILLS LAND TRUST: $22,000 · EnvironmentSPECIAL OLYMPICS KENTUCKY INC: $12,000 · Recreation & SportsWILD AT HEART INC: $9,500 · AnimalsBORN AGAIN PIT BULL RESCUE: $2,000 · Animals
Other$1,397,500Arts & Culture$157,500Health$118,000Education$58,000Environment$22,000Recreation & Sports$12,000Animals$11,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 5y, 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
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 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 STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Foothills Caring Corps Inc ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds Gig Harbor Peninsula Firefighters Association ↗
  • Who funds BORN AGAIN PIT BULL RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds Foothills Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗

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 Fou…American Express Foun…Kiwanis Club of Caref…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Vaughn L and Eleanore M Beals Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vaughn L and Eleanore M Beals Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 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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