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BEAM CENTER INC

BEAM CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,338,425 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($606,200). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.1M
Funders on record
49
Grants received
$4.3M
Net assets
$1.1M
30/49 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%
01What it does

What Beam Center Inc does

Mission

Founded in 2012, Bean Center focuses on empowering young people through hands-on collaborative creation and learning, helping them to develop skills, confidence, and purpose working together on real-world projects combining art, science, and technology.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Beam camp: new hampshire sleepaway summer program where campers learn creative and collaboration skills and build a spectacular largescale collaborative project chosen through an annual worldwide design competition.

    $996,180 spentof which $299,773 as grants$645,976 earned by the program
    25% of program spending
  2. Beamworks: public school partnerships where beam center faculty collaborate with teachers on art and technology projects, serving middle and high school students from public schools throughout nyc, in and out of the classroom.

    $1,441,038 spent$145,999 earned by the program
    37% of program spending
  3. Youth and other programs: out of school programs for students in 2nd through 8th grades. Workshops led by beam center faculty and beamworks apprentices.

    $1,489,938 spent$65,025 earned by the program
    38% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,927,156.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($777)2019 Revenue 130 ($2.5M) Expenses 116 ($2.3M) Net assets 26265 ($204k)2021 Revenue 145 ($2.8M) Expenses 125 ($2.5M) Net assets 31967 ($248k)2023 Revenue 220 ($4.2M) Expenses 207 ($4.1M) Net assets 39322 ($306k)2024 Revenue 207 ($4.0M) Expenses 208 ($4.1M) Net assets 23050 ($179k)2025 Revenue 267 ($5.1M) Expenses 240 ($4.8M) Net assets 142988 ($1.1M)
201820192021202320242025
Revenue (267)Expenses (240)Net assets (142988)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $613k to $3.0M (+385%).

$317k
$619k
$863k
$977k
$613k
$3.0M
201820192021202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2018
2019
2021
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 17% · 2023 29% · 2024 33% · 2025 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$58k
’18
$203k
’19
$323k
’21
$131k
’23
−$126k
’24
$387k
’25
1.5
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Brian Cohen

Executive Director

Board chair

Juliette Adams

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

201820192021202320242025
Listed798131312
Joined·+4··+1+5
No longer listed·2··16
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $155k → $882k.

12 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of BEAM CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

BEAM CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

51% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BEAM CENTER INC.

14%
largest funder
35%
top three
~16
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 30% · 2019 41% · 2020 34% · 2021 13% · 2022 31% · 2023 44% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

52% of BEAM CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

88% of BEAM CENTER INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
MD
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $541k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Government funding BEAM CENTER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $120k on record.

Federal$120k
grants $120kcontracts $0
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20
21
22
24
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$120k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like BEAM CENTER INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 14%Fundraising 3%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds BEAM CENTER INC?
BEAM CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,338,425 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($606,200). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BEAM CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $4,338,425 in grants to BEAM CENTER INC, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BEAM CENTER INC?
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $606,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BEAM CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 49 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing