Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Beacon Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,687,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Beacon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $2.6M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $3.4M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $3.2M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $3.1M | 67% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $2.0M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $4.1M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $2.2M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $2.6M | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $13,266,387 | 8 | 7% |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $1,487,500 | 8 | 0% |
| 412 Food Rescue Inc | $1,072,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Pnc Foundation | $975,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Onetable Inc | $900,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Moishe House | $805,333 | 4 | 2% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $750,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of Mosaic United | $600,000 | 4 | 78% |
| Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh | $278,250 | 1 | 4% |
| Jewish Association on Aging | $249,204 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $13,266,387 | 8 | 7% |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $1,487,500 | 8 | 0% |
| 412 Food Rescue Inc | $1,072,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Pnc Foundation | $975,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Onetable Inc | $900,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Moishe House | $805,333 | 4 | 2% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $750,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of Mosaic United | $600,000 | 4 | 78% |
| Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh | $278,250 | 1 | 4% |
| Jewish Association on Aging | $249,204 | 4 | 1% |
| Eradicate Hate Global Summit | $225,000 | 1 | 6% |
| T of L Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Hillel Jewish University Center | $52,500 | 1 | 4% |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Beacon Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Philip Chosky Charitable & Educational Foundation · David S Shapira Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · Jewish Communal Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Beacon Foundation
- How much does Beacon Foundation give?
- Beacon Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $4,282,045 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Beacon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (45%), Philanthropy (41%), Education (5%).
- Who are Beacon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life ($13M), Carnegie Mellon University ($1.5M), 412 Food Rescue Inc ($1.1M).
- Does Beacon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Beacon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Beacon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philip Chosky Charitable & Educational Foundation, David S Shapira Foundation, Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh.
- Where is Beacon Foundation based?
- Beacon Foundation is based in PA.
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