The Beall Family Foundation
Newport Beach, CA · EIN 33-0881739. Reported 151 grants totalling $8,600,285 to 47 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Beall Family Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a private independent foundation (NTEE T22).
- How spread out its giving is. 47 distinct organizations, with 31% 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.
- How much its list changes. 86% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $40,000; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $1,000,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of California Irvine Foundation | Irvine, CA | $2,685,000 | 28 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hoover Institution | Stanford, CA | $1,100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Naval Postgraduate School Foundation Inc | Monterey, CA | $581,740 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $460,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Wooden Floor for Youth Movement | Santa Ana, CA | $400,600 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Orange County Museum of Art | Costa Mesa, CA | $325,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Tower Foundation of San Jose State University | San Jose, CA | $151,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Orange County Community Foundation | Irvine, CA | $130,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mind Education | Irvine, CA | $125,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans Inc | Alexandria, VA | $120,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Star Rock Ministries | San Clemente, CA | $110,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hoag Hospital Foundation | Newport Beach, CA | $105,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Liberty Hill Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $105,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Carmel Ideas Foundation | Pebble Beach, CA | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Montage Health Foundation | Monterey, CA | $85,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Smithsonian Institute | Washington, DC | $85,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Davidson College of Engineering | San Jose, CA | $74,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Segerstrom Center for the Arts | Costa Mesa, CA | $70,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mce Social Capital | San Francisco, CA | $69,975 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Project X Foundation for Art & Criticism | Los Angeles, CA | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation | Evanston, IL | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Arthur a Collins Legacy Association | Robins, IA | $55,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | $55,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | W Hollywood, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Octane Foundation for Innovation | Newport Beach, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Public Media Group of Southern California | Burbank, CA | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Basic Fund | Oakland, CA | $36,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Center for Strategic and International Studies Inc | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Future Citizens Foundation | Salinas, CA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fieldstone Leadership Network | Newport Beach, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Foundation for Monterey County | Monterey, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc | Ponte Vedra, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Monterey Museum of Art | Monterey, CA | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of California Los Angeles Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ceo Leadership Alliance Orange County | Laguna Beach, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nova Ukraine | Palo Alto, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Save the Redwoods League | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The National Academies of Sciences Engineering & Medicine | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Gigafact Foundation | Redwood City, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hoag Charity Sports | Irvine, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Make a Wish Foundation | Irvine, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pebble Beach Company Foundation | Pebble Beach, CA | $6,470 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
32 of 47 (68%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Hoover Institution
EDUCATING AMERICANS IN PUBLIC POLICY - Leland Stanford Junior University
JOAN & DONALD BEALL ENDOWMENT FUND - University of California Irvine Fdn
SUPPORT UCI BEALL APPLIED INNOVATION - Naval Postgraduate School Foundation Inc
SUPPORT DONALD BEALL DEFENSE FELLOWS PROGRAM - University of Pittsburgh
SUPPORT DONALD R. BEALL CHAIR IN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT - Hoag Hospital Foundation
HOAG FAMILY CANCER INSTITUTE
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 33 of 47 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 42 | $3,388,700 | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 41 | $2,118,220 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 31 | $1,155,685 | $22,945 |
| 2024 | 37 | $1,937,680 | $25,000 |
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
89% of its giving went to organizations in California. 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.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- 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 The Beall Family Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1200 Newport Center Dr 220, Newport Beach, CA, 92660.
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