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. 

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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

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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

Contributors from $100,000-$249,000

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*

  • 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