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Beaumont Foundation of America

Beaumont, TX · EIN 76-0650506. Reported 206 grants totalling $19.6M to 58 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.

58organizations funded
$50,000median reported grant
$19.6Mgranted, 2021-2025
94%of grantees funded again the next year
20%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Beaumont Foundation of America, the IRS classifies it as a philanthropy support organization (NTEE T19).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 58 distinct organizations, with 20% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 94% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $24,300 and $80,000; the smallest was $5,750 and the largest $3,593,180. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
14 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
38 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
49 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
61 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
35 grants
$250,000 Or More
9 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Huntsman Cancer FoundationSalt Lake Cty, UT$4,000,000442025
See Attached Spreadsheet$3,593,180112021
To Be DeterminedBeaumont, TX$2,398,209442025
San Augustine Hs College ScholarshiSan Augustine, TX$500,000442025
Central Texas Food Bank IncAustin, TX$400,000442025
El Pasoans Fighting HungerEl Paso, TX$400,000442025
Houston Food BankHouston, TX$400,000442025
North Texas Food BankPlano, TX$400,000442025
San Antonio Food Bank IncSan Antonio, TX$400,000442025
Tarrant Area Food BankFort Worth, TX$400,000442025
Lutheran Social Service of the South IncAustin, TX$393,000442025
Depelchin Childrens CenterHouston, TX$382,500442025
Nutrition & Services for SeniorsBeaumont, TX$320,000442025
Some Other Place IncBeaumont, TX$320,000442025
Catholic Charities of Southeast TexasBeaumont, TX$300,000442025
Southeast Texas Food BankBeaumont, TX$300,000442025
Msgr Kelly Catholic High School Foundation IncBeaumont, TX$285,000642025
Buckner Children and Family Services IncDallas, TX$276,600442025
All Saints Episcopal SchoolBeaumont, TX$263,500742025
Foundation for Indiana University of PennsylvaniaIndiana, PA$240,000442025
Lamar UniversityBeaumont, TX$210,000632024
Caritas of WacoWaco, TX$200,000442025
Coastal Bend Food BankCorp Christi, TX$200,000442025
High Plains Food BankAmarillo, TX$200,000442025
Regional East Texas Food BankTyler, TX$200,000442025
South Plains Food Bank IncLubbock, TX$200,000442025
Columbia University Law SchoolNew York, NY$163,156222024
Concho Valley Regional Food Bank of Texas IncSan Angelo, TX$140,000442025
Food Bank of Abilene IncAbilene, TX$140,000442025
Galveston County Food BankTexas City, TX$140,000442025
The Food Bank of the Golden CrescentVictoria, TX$140,000442025
Wichita Falls Area Food BankWichita Falls, TX$140,000442025
Cal Farleys Boys RanchAmarillo, TX$139,200442025
The Childrens ShelterSan Antonio, TX$121,200442025
Brazos Valley Food Bank IncBryan, TX$120,000442025
Montgomery County Food Bank IncConroe, TX$120,000442025
South Texas Food BankLaredo, TX$120,000442025
West Texas Food BankOdessa, TX$120,000442025
Helping Hand Home for ChildrenAustin, TX$98,700442025
St Nicholas Center for ChildrenLake Charles, LA$80,000442025
Pleasant Hills Childrens HomeFairfeld, TX$70,200442025
Presbyterian Home for ChildrenAmarillo, TX$55,500442025
Ut Law School FoundationAustin, TX$55,000112022
Garth HouseBeaumont, TX$50,000112023
Boulden Memorial Church of God in ChristBeaumont, TX$43,000542025
Magnolia Missionary Baptist ChurchBeaumont, TX$40,000442025
Southeast Texas Family Resource Center IncBeaumont, TX$40,000442025
Texas Southern University FoundationHouston, TX$40,000112022
913 Kvlu Pubic RadioBeaumont, TX$37,381442025
Angel ReachBeaumont, TX$30,000112025
Children's Safe HarborConroe, TX$30,000112025
The Beacon - Brigid's HopeHouston, TX$30,000112025
Saints Temple Church of God in ChristBeaumont, TX$23,000442025
Temple of Praise Church of God in ChristBeaumont, TX$23,000442025
Good Hope Baptist Church Dba Greater Good Hope BaptistBeaumont, TX$20,000222023
University of Texas- School of HumaAustin, TX$15,000112022
Texas A&m UniversityCollege Station, TX$12,500112022
Lamar State College OrangeOrange, TX$10,000112023

48 of 58 (83%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 14 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 29 of 58 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
14 orgs
Food & Nutrition
8 orgs
Education
3 orgs
Religion
2 orgs
Medical Research
1 org
Community Improvement
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20211$3,593,180$3,593,180
202255$3,887,067$40,000
202352$4,050,640$46,722
202449$4,048,970$50,000
202549$4,008,969$50,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

72% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Texas
$11.5M
Utah
$4.0M
Pennsylvania
$240K
New York
$163K
Louisiana
$80K

Down to the city

Beaumont, TX
$4.7M
Salt Lake Cty, UT
$4.0M
Austin, TX
$962K
Houston, TX
$852K
San Antonio, TX
$521K
San Augustine, TX
$500K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund33 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc28 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc23 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America23 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program22 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc22 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Beaumont Foundation of America's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 470 Orleans Street First Floor, Beaumont, TX, 77701.

EIN 76-0650506 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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