· Private foundation
Ward Beecher Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OH WOW | $50,000 |
| TURNOUT ACTIVISM INC | $40,000 |
| GROUNDWORK FUND - AMALGAMATED FDN | $40,000 |
| VOTER PROTECTION CORPS FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WE ARE DOWN HOME | $20,000 |
| THE ENGLISH CENTER | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE | $3,000 |
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 (FY21–23, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
20 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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
- YSYOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2021 · $355k · revenue +85%
- YNYOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION4× · 2017–2022 · $185k · revenue +482%
- THTAM HIGH FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2021 · $65k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- YWYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIOone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -5%
- SSMARTSone grant, 2022 · $40k
- PDPOTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $32k · revenue +28%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youngstown State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Whittier College. 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 43 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 48 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 YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OH WOW THE ROGER & GLORIA JONES CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR SCIENCE & TECH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAM HIGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA JAZZ CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds TURNOUT ACTIVISM INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNGSTOWN EDISON BUSINESS INCUBATOR ↗
- Who funds POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAIR COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds Whittier College ↗
- Who funds MILL VALLEY PHILHARMONIC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds WE ARE DOWN HOME ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MILL VALLEY SCHOOLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA KIDDO ↗
- Who funds Berkeley Public Schools Fund ↗
- Who funds MAHONING VALLEY COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BEATITUDE HOUSE 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: Florence S Beecher Fdn · Youngstown Fdn General · Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Walter E & Caroline H Watson Trust · John D Finnegan Fdn · Youngstown Area Jewish Federation · Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · The Schwebel Family Foundation · E M Barr Tw Charitable Trust · Neckerman William M Jr Charitable · Frank & Pearl Gelbman Charitable Fdn
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 Ward Beecher 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.