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Beacon Foundation Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k11 grants · $400k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $515k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHATTANOOGA STATE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY | $80,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM | $55,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF CHATTANOOGA | $55,000 |
| KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY CARE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA ROOM IN THE INN | $50,000 |
| CHATTAHOOCHEE TECH FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| MUST MINISTRIES | $45,000 |
| ARTSBUILD | $40,000 |
| CHAMBLISS CENTER OF CHILDREN | $40,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULTS | $40,000 |
| GEORGIA GWINETT COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| FORSYTH TECH FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $730k · revenue +134%- CHChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $660k · revenue +51%
- GIGIRLS INC OF CHATTANOOGA9× · 2017–2025 · $385k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- KSKENNESAW STATE -- PRESIDENT'S EMERGING GLOBAL SCHOLARSone grant, 2017 · $30k
- KFKSU FOUNDATION - KSU CAREone grant, 2020 · $10k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF WINSTON-SALEM INCone grant, 2020 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To benefit and carry out the educational purposes of chattanooga state community college.
To provide a positive and safe living environment for hurting, abused, neglected and at-risk children placed privately and by the north carolina department of social services
Family promise of greater chattanooga's mission is to provide help for homeless families with children be housed and self-sufficient.
Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…
To enable all young people to realize their full potential
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
To advocate for people who are homless or near homeless, strategically planning for housing and services in the community, maximizing resources and collaboarating with community partners to implement housing and services within the…
Our mission is to connect chattanooga's technology sector to drive regional economic growth.
To prepare students to lead and serve with distinction while representing christ and his kingdom in all areas of home, church, society and culture.
The caswell county partnership for children unites the community to provide families with resources and services to enable all children to reach their fullest potential.
Creative community services (ccs) improves the quality of life for children teens and adults with developmental disabilities and mental health needs, and their families, by providing direct services and community-based support throughout…
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chattanooga Room in the Inn Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of the Piedmont Triad Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds Chattahoochee Tech Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTSBUILD ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA ROOM IN THE INN INC ↗
- Who funds Must Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA GWINNETT COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORSYTH TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULTS ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PIEDMONT TRIAD INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MARIETTA COBB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds IMPRINTS CARES ↗
- Who funds CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JACKSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Frank Jb & Emma S Varallo Foundation · Lillian L Colby Charitable Fdn Ia · Schillhahn-Huskey Foundation · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc · Tucker Foundation · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Beacon Foundation Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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