BEAM's programs are provided at no cost to students and families. We rely on the support of the following foundations, companies, and individuals to continue achieving our mission of creating a realistic pathway for underserved students.
Core Supporter
Funding support for Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics is provided by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is dedicated to advancing the education of exceptionally promising students who have financial need. It offers the largest scholarships in the U.S., comprehensive counseling and other support services to students from 7th grade to graduate school, and has awarded $147 million in scholarships to nearly 2,000 students and over $88 million in grants.
This project is supported by Carina Initiatives. Their mission is to send more kids from more communities to the frontiers of science and technology.
This project is supported by The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. They elevate organizations, initiatives and leaders that boldly address the challenges of our time and expand opportunity for Los Angeles’ historically marginalized communities.
This project is supported by the Simons Foundation. The mission of the Simons Foundation is to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences. Since its founding in 1994 by Jim and Marilyn Simons, the foundation has been a champion of basic science through grant funding, support for research and public engagement.
This project is supported by Jane Street. Jane Street is a global trading firm and market maker with offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam; trading a wide range of financial products. As a firm of collaborative problem solvers, Jane Street leverages quantitative analysis, technology, and expertise to provide consistent liquidity across market conditions.
Major Supporter
This project is supported by Hudson River Trading (HRT). HRT is an automated trading firm based in New York, with offices worldwide. HRT’s trading is guided by mathematical rigor, well-designed engineering, and a responsibility towards transparent and well-functioning markets.
Additional SupportERS
Additional support for BEAM is provided by:
2022-2023 Honor Roll
BEAM would like to thank the following individuals, foundations, and companies who have supported the program.
Contributors Above $250,000
Anonymous (x5)
The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation*
La Vida Feliz Foundation*
The Lehoczky Escobar Family*
Aakanksha Sarda and Alex Schwendner*
Science Sandbox, an initiative of the Simons Foundation*
Abigail and Adam Winkel*
Contributors from $100,000-$249,000
Arbor Rising*
Ken and Deborah Baron*
Alan Deckelbaum and Beth Zweig*
Charles Hayden Foundation*
Magnitude Capital
Takeda US Philanthropic Giving Program
Ann Theodore Foundation*
CONTRIBUTORS FROM $25,000-$99,999
Anonymous (x2)
Altman Foundation*
John N. Calley Foundation
Vera R. Campbell Foundation*
Ann and John Doerr*
Elbaz Family Foundation
Marina and Sergey Levin*
Loewenberg Foundation Incorporated*
Elizabeth Loewenberg
Pinkerton Foundation
James Posen
Quantedge*
Richard and Vanessa Rusczyk*
Michael Simmons Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation*
Mason Smith*
Dwight Stuart Youth Fund
CONTRIBUTORS FROM $10,000-$24,999
Anonymous (x7)
Ernest and Catherine Abbott*
American Mathematical Society*
Ray and Ellen Brunsberg*
Joan Colello, in memory of Victor Meyers
Suhas and Felicitie Daftuar*
Tim Davis and Carol Critchlow*
Evan Goldberg and Family*
Joan Herman and Richard Rasiej*
Jeffrey Hoffman and Leslie Buller*
Alexander Morcos*
Gustavo Palazzi and Marina Niceta*
Ariel Rabkin and Sophie Litschwartz*
Susan Schwartz Wildstrom*
Theodore Singer*
Tower Research Capital
The Tudor Foundation*
Rufus Williams and Paytre Topp
Contributors From $5,000-$9,999
Anonymous (x5)
Adriana Castilla*
Evan Chen*
Richard Dore*
Catherine Havasi and Jason Alonso*
A J Hildebrand*
Elizabeth and Alexander Kendall*
Arjun Khandelwal*
Bhupendra and Suzanne Krishna
Louis and Allison Kural*
Yofay Lee
Nellie Mae Education Foundation
Allie Obermeyer and John Mrkonic*
Laurie and Andy Okun*
Paula J. Olsiewski and John H. Healey*
Gaurav Singh*
Barbara and Robert Staffaroni*
Tony Valderrama
Glenn Willen*
Sisi Zhu and YinFeng Shao*
Contributors from $1,000-$4,999
Anonymous (x19)
Jason Ai
Venu and Melissa Angara*
Sergei Bernstein and Robin Dahan*
Mira Bernstein, in memory of Alfonso Gracia Saz*
Mamta and Sandeep Bhandari
Maury and Joe Bohan*
Jane Boon and Norman Pearlstine*
Bradshaw Family Charitable Fund
In honor of Ray Brunsberg
Ruthie Byers*
Kaitlin Carr*
Matthew Caverly
Andrea and Steve Cohen
Cordeiro Family*
Jonas Corona*
Stephen Curran and Vidya Venkateswaran
Nanayaa Dadson*
Glen and Cyndi Dawson*
Joanne Dillon*
Eve and Richard Egelhof*
Joshua Ehrlich*
Katharine and Thomas Ewald*
Garbasz Family*
Gabriella Garbasz*
Juliet Garbasz
Dr. Edray Herber Goins, PhD*
Aaron Goldberg
Andrew Grider
Larry Guth and Amy Pasternack*
Darryl Hill*
Niki Huhn
Madison Ihrig*
Raj Jayanthan and Leah Abraham*
JetPens PCOW
Kiran Kedlaya*
Gayle Lois Kinnison Charitable Fund*
KQR Charitable Fund
Benjamin Kraft*
Allyson and Don Laackman, in honor of our son, Don*
Thomas Lawler*
Winston Luo and Rachel Jiang*
Jan-Willem Maessen and Andrea Humez*
Amber and CW McCullagh*
Gregory Michel
John Moosemiller
Laura Mosedale and Matt Horgan, in honor of Ray Brunsberg
David Patrick*
Madalina Persu*
Philip Pham
The Provincial Foundation*
Dmitry and Irina Sagalovskiy*
Benjamin Segal and Jacqueline Mahal
Chris Shabsin and Dana Scott*
Sameer Shah*
Jay and Anu Shah*
Caroline and Danny Shaw
Youlian Simidjiyski*
Rajdeep and Jasjeet Singh*
Tara Smith and Patrick McSwiggen*
Noah Snyder and Malia Jackson*
STEM PUSH Network*
Lori Thomas*
Justin Venezuela
Sophie Vulpe*
Alexander Wang and Edith Cohen*
Jo Wright*
Matthew Wright*
David Wu
Ron Yehoshua*
Brandon Zaharoff
Zoheri Logue Giving Fund*
Contributors from $200-$999
Anonymous (x60)
Uchechukwu Adegbite
Anurag Agarwal
Aaron Anderson*
Matthew Ando*
Silvia Ascarelli*
Susan and Jon Ashley, in honor of Ray Brunsberg
Adrian Baur*
In honor of Adrian Baur
Colin Bick
BISV Parents*
Ranu and Ravi Boppana*
In honor of Ray Brunsberg (x3)
In honor of The Late Ray Brunsberg, on behalf of West Perry Condominium
Ron Buckmire*
Michael Budiansky and Alisa Golden Budiansky*
Geoffrey Burgess, in honor of Ray Brunsberg
Betsy and Andrew Cadel*
Kimberly Chen
In honor of Chinese Community Center Math Club at Albany NY
Yvonne Chou
Craig Chu and Charley Mills*
Robert and Sara Coe*
In honor of Cory Colbert*
Haoyun Cui
Lisa Danz*
Alex Dehnert*
Paul Deubel
Rich Dooley and Marie Martinez
Emily Dryden and Peter McNamara*
Samuel Duncan*
In honor of the number e*
Jordan Ellenberg*
Dennis Emge
Gee Eng*
Everence Foundation, Inc.*
Joyce Farnsworth and Cliff Young*
Gary and Kristin Friedman*
Holman Gao*
Frances Gaver
B. Alan and Sharon Gillis*
Katie and Brent Gledhill, in memory of Ray Brunsberg
Christopher Grant
Patrick Haun
The Haverkampf Eyster Charitable Fund
Shira Helft*
Alexander Hoff
Benjamin Irey*
Lazar Ivanov*
Tom James and Dustin Ngo*
Jennings Jin
Reva Kasman*
Sinkari Kassim*
Ivan Kelber*
Robert Kohn
Weiwei Kong
Ellen and Lawrence Kulinsky*
Mr. Kumar and Ms. Chimalakonda*
The Kuroyama Family*
Kali Sabina Lakshmi*
Jia Lan
Marc-Paul Lee
Sheng Li
Kathy Lin and Jacob Fox*
Elizabeth Liscio
Andrew Lo
Jonathan Love*
YQ Lu*
Jayson Lynch*
Sean Markan
Robert and Nancy McCullough*
Ariel and Chris Meave-Ohrt*
Victor Meyers*
Sharon Mias
Yair Minsky*
Neal Moorthy and Julietta Garbasz
Derek Newsom
Andrew and Jennifer Obus
Robert O'Connor
In honor of Dr. Mary O'Keefe*
Jennie Orr Thomas and Daniel Thomas*
Pamela Piccola-Fales*
Martin Polacek
Greg Price*
Tori and Aaron Pulkka*
L Punnett & R Moure-Eraso, in honor of Lynn Cartwright-Punnett*
Deirdre Quillen*
Sally Quinn*
Suresh Ramarajan
Jennie and Jeremy Redburn Family Fund
David Reiley and Jill Sazama*
In honor and appreciation of Harold Reiter
Emily Riehl*
Katherine Rorschach and David Savitt*
David A. Rosen
Tim Roughgarden
Marcus Sarofim*
Charles T. Sebens*
Tasha Shangvi*
Joseph Shochet*
Simsbury High School
Mia Smith*
Andy Smith*
Michael, Megan, Arthur and Rena Shulman*
Lauren Taralli*
Dennis Thankachan*
Heather Traher*
Valya, Greg, Bianca, and Shante*
Hannah Wensel
John Wiesemann*
Ryan Williams*
Japheth Wood and Mariel Fiori
ChihPing and ShihLing Yeh
Boon-Lock Yeo
Bryant Yik
Kathleen and David Zehender
Xinna Zhang
Bob Zhang
Simon Zhuang*
Joshua Zucker*
Contributors Up to $199
Anonymous (x108)
Josh Alman
Margie and Al Anderson, in honor of our grandson, Don Laackman*
Jayapraveen Arcot Ravikumar
Susan and Richard Ascher
Andrew Barksdale
Bartlett Family Giving Fund
Aritra Basuroy
Bee-Decked, LLC*
Amanda Bennett and Jamie Gray*
Anna Berlanga*
Susan Berman Drews*
Alisha Bhimji
Haley Block
In honor of Ray Brunsberg, from Viv and the AllBright family
In honor of Ray Brunsberg (x4)
In memory of Ray Brunsberg
In memory of Ray Brunsberg (x7)
In memory of Ray Brunsberg, from David/Lisa, Rick/Laura, Andy/Darcy, Michael/Addi, Rob/Ali, Erik/Alison, Jim/Carole, Steve/Pam
In memory of Raymond Brunsberg, former BEAM Math Tutor
Spencer Bullinger
Julie Bustrum
In honor of Sylvia Carlisle and Will Green*
Nicole Catá
Ashlie Chan
Lillian Chin*
Sunitha Chodavarapu
Kristin Cimini
Killian Coate*
Elizabeth and Gerald Cohen
Claire Cook
Katherine and James Cronn
Nandan Das*
Anna de Bakker*
Brian Edwards*
Elizabeth
Renee Ferrarese Piersa
Jodie and Ron Fischer
Rob Forler
D. Kent Freeman*
Benjamin Friedenson
Bryce Frost
Gabrielle Family Vision Care
Florence Galvani
Suman and Anjali Ganguli
Josh Goldman
Xavier Gomes
Richard Gottesman
Elizabeth Grabenstein
Susan Grover
Dagmawi Haile
David and Lynne Hamrick*
Jun Han
Christopher Healy*
Steve and Pam Hendry, in memory of Ray Brunsberg
Janice Herbert
Tjaden Hess*
Lisa Ho*
In honor of Jeff Hoffman*
Kailin Husayko and Brian Alexander
Jake Intrater
Alexander Irpan*
Anderson Isaac
Justine Jackson-Ricketts
Andrew Jacobs*
In honor of Tom James IV* (x3)
Jerome Kaplan
In honor of Kate & Nelson’s wedding
Andy Kelsall
Irina Kogan*
Scott Duke Kominers*
Sheila Krilov*
Alexander Krol
Padma Krothapalli
Julie Krueger
In honor of 21st Century Mathematics class given by Justin Lanier
Nick Lazinsky*
Charles Liang*
Brad Lytle*
Cheri Madsen*
Saurabh Malhotra
In honor of Leo Mancini and Alicia Zhang
Julie Mann*
Alysha Maris*
Mathematicians for Equality*
Maia McCormick*
Mike McGovern, in memory of Ray Brunsburg
Richard McKenzie
Janet E. Miller*
Pat and Adam Miller, in honor of Robert Wolf
Anthony Mollengarden
The Morgan Mathematicians*
Toni Mullee
Erik and Sara Nadeau
In honor of Todd Nelling*
In honor of Sir Isaac Newton
Adder Oaks
In honor of Maura Ollo
Leah Oppenheim
Douglas O'Roark*
Sophia Orlov
Grace Pan
James Parinella*
Frederick Pearson
Molly Peeples and Marshall Perrin*
Savva Petrov*
In honor of Joseph Quinn, Ph. D
Ramji Raghavan and Vanitha Narasimhan
Ana Sofia Rodrigues Peres Ramos Reis
Jessica Resnick-Ault and Chad Wolfsheimer*
In honor of Roma people*
Emily Ross
RuiFeng Family Giving Fund
Caleb S.
Bob Sachs
Araceli Salcedo
Debra Seidell and Gregory Marton*
In honor of Jalin Sharp
Ken & Anita Shine, in honor of Ray Brunsberg
Sruly Simon
Marc Spiegelman*
Ananya Sri Raja Kalidindi*
In honor of Thomas Stemnock
In honor of JoAnn Stewart
In honor of Diana Strauss
Jordan Sullivan*
The Summerfield Family*
In honor of Shelley Sunday
Christo Swan
Sarah Tran
Francesco Tressi
Matthew Trudeau
Tom Tsao*
In honor of Dr. Luke Tunstall and his inspiring passion for increasing opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds
Janneke van Geuns
John Voight
Navie Vurdien
In honor of Zach Walsh
David D. Wang
Lee-kai Wang*
Ren-Horng Wang
Dan and Eileen Watts Siegel*
Kimberly Weinberg
Eugene Weinstein
Jakob Weisblat
Ethan Weker
Woodrow Wilson Math Competition Team, Edison, NJ
Wunderkind
Xinke*
Xinlei Xu
Dong Yan
Joyce Yang*
Zack Yorke*
Brayden Zhang
In honor of Shuntao Zhang
Tiancheng Zheng