New York · Private foundation
Beacon Light Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $116k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2024
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,780
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $11,285
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 89
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Beacon Light Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 38 | $116k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $116k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $111k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $160k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 61 | $159k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 64 | $81k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 71 | $110k | 39% |
| FY2017 | 89 | $120k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Interfaith Nutrition Network Inc | $80,470 | 7 | 0% |
| Nassau Bar Foundation Inc | $20,485 | 8 | 1% |
| North Shore Soup Kitchen Inc | $18,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Mk9s Service Dogs | $15,000 | 3 | 22% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $14,125 | 6 | 0% |
| Coalition to Save Hempstead Harbor Inc | $13,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Timothy Hill Children's Ranch Inc | $13,300 | 4 | 0% |
| Mutual Concerns Committee | $13,000 | 6 | 9% |
| The Safe Center LI Inc | $10,500 | 7 | 0% |
| New York Academy of Art | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 88 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 140 recipients with no EIN on record ($585k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Beacon Light Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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 New York Community Trust · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · Pledgeling Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Beacon Light Foundation Inc
- How much does Beacon Light Foundation Inc give?
- Beacon Light Foundation Inc reported 38 grants totaling $116,348 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 89 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Beacon Light Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (14%), Animals (14%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are Beacon Light Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Interfaith Nutrition Network Inc ($80k), Nassau Bar Foundation Inc ($20k), North Shore Soup Kitchen Inc ($18k).
- Does Beacon Light Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Beacon Light Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Beacon Light Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Price Chopper's Golub Foundation, William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc.
- Where is Beacon Light Foundation Inc based?
- Beacon Light Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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