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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 FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$141kAnimals$134kFood & Nutrition$122kArts & Culture$58kPhilanthropy$58kReligion$53kHuman Services$40kEnvironment$33kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k34 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $42k
$1,780
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NASSAU BAR FOUNDATION$11,285
SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION$10,370
INTERFAITH NUTRITION NETWORK$10,010
G22 EMPOWERMENT PROJECT$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,915
ALZHEIMERS'S ASSOCIATION$5,900
FRIENDS OF SARATOGA COUNTY ANIMAL$5,000
PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM$5,000
NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART$5,000
SOUTHOLD FIRE DEPARTMENT$5,000
COVENANT HOUSE$5,000
SANG LEE FARMS$5,000
CAST$3,564
Individual grant recipient$3,000
NORTH FORK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$2,675
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 28%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $750 → 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 28%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $200 → 11%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $500 → 7%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $500 → 7%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $500 → 7%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $500 → 7%EAST END HOSPICES: $100 → 7%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $500 → 7%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 17%THE SAFE CENTER: $4k → 6%THE SAFE CENTER: $2k → 6%THE SAFE CENTER: $1k → 6%THE SAFE CENTER: $1k → 6%THE SAFE CENTER: $1k → 6%THE SAFE CENTER: $1k → 6%THE SAFE CENTER: $500 → 6%WARRIORS FOR A CAUSE: $2k → 6%WARRIORS FOR A CAUSE: $1k → 6%WARRIORS FOR A CAUSE: $1k → 6%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $2k → 6%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $2k → 6%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $2k → 6%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $725 → 6%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $500 → 6%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $400 → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $200 → 6%MUTUAL CONCERNS COMMITTEE INC: $4k → 6%MUTUAL CONCERNS COMMITTEE INC: $4k → 6%MUTUAL CONCERNS COMMITTEE: $2k → 6%MUTUAL CONCERNS COMMITTEE INC: $1k → 6%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE: $300 → 7%MUTUAL CONCERNS COMMITTEE INC: $1k → 6%MUTUAL CONCERNS COMMITTEE INC: $1k → 6%TIMOTHY HILL CHILDREN'S RANCH: $5k → 7%TIMOTHY HILL CHILDREN'S RANCH: $3k → 7%TIMOTHY HILL CHILDREN'S RANCH: $3k → 7%TIMOTHY HILL CHILDREN'S RANCH: $3k → 7%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $517 → 6%DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INSTITUT: $1k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$792k · 85 repeat orgs$181k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

85 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 64 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

85
126

Total granted

$792k
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+22%

Still filing today

41%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

  • TI
    THE INTERFAITH NUTRITION NETWORK INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +79%
  • NB
    Nassau Bar Foundation Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +17%
  • MS
    MK9S SERVICE DOGS
    3× · 2019–2021 · $15k · revenue +290%

Funded once

  • BF
    BBC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -64%
  • AB
    ANDREA BOCCELLI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • DD
    DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INSTITUT
    one grant, 2017 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
Northwell Health Cancer Institute Inc

Northwell health cancer institute is part of northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
3
Foundation for Research of the New York Academy of Osteopathy Inc
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4
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
5
Northwell Health Foundation

Northwell health foundation inc. is dedicated toward helping donors, patients, and leaders link their vision and philanthropic support toward helping the underserved and uninsured, advancing the latest frontiers in medical technology and…

Health
6
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
7
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
8
Glen Cove Hospital

Glen cove hospital is part of northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality geriatric care; educating the current and future…

Health
9
Children's Tumor Foundation

Our mission: drive research, expand knowledge, and advance care for the nf community. our vision: end nf.

Health
10
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
11
Hospice Care Network

Our mission is to enable persons to live with peace and dignity in a caring environment during the final stages of life by offering care and comfort to both them and to those whom they share their lives.

Human Services
12
Northwell Health Inc

Northwell health is the parent company of a fully integrated health system that is committed to promote clinical care, health education, conduct biomedical research, and caring for the community regardless of ability to pay.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bbc Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%6%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%3%<5yr14%12%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%16%20–35yr13%40%35–55yr16%15%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/89
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,671

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

83 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. 83 of the 229 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/83
Grantees still filing
53/83
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $70,120 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $46,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientALZHEIMERS'S ASSOCIATION — $28,800 · OtherELIH FOUNDATION — $27,423 · OtherESTHERVILLE ANIMAL SHELTER — $24,200 · Other+150 more — $493,956 · Other+150 moreTHE INTERFAITH NUTRITION NETWORK INC — $80,470 · Food & NutritionTHE INTERFA…NORTH SHORE SOUP KITCHEN INC — $18,000 · Food & NutritionNORTH SHORE…+1 more — $218 · Food & NutritionTIMOTHY HILL CHILDREN'S RANCH INC — $13,300 · Human ServicesMUTUAL CONCERNS COMMITTEE — $13,000 · Human ServicesThe Safe Center LI Inc — $10,500 · Human ServicesTHE VISCARDI CENTER INC — $6,875 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE — $6,000 · Human ServicesWARRIORS FOR A CAUSE INC — $3,825 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $2,150 · Human Services+4 more — $2,317 · Human ServicesMK9S SERVICE DOGS — $15,000 · AnimalsNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC — $9,700 · AnimalsNORTH COUNTRY WILD CARE — $4,000 · Animals11TH HOUR CANINE RESCUE NY INC — $3,000 · AnimalsMOHAWK & HUDSON RIVER HUMANE SOCIETY — $2,500 · AnimalsTHE 11TH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE INC T/A ELEVENTH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE — $2,000 · AnimalsRERUN INC — $1,800 · Animals+4 more — $4,000 · AnimalsST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $14,125 · HealthGLENS FALLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $7,400 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC — $6,800 · HealthWICKLUND WARRIORS INC — $4,500 · HealthPEACEFUL ACRES HORSES INC — $4,000 · Health+7 more — $4,713 · HealthCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $18,857 · PhilanthropyBBC FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCATIE HOCH FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $504 · PhilanthropyCOALITION TO SAVE HEMPSTEAD HARBOR INC — $13,500 · EnvironmentPECONIC LAND TRUST INC — $8,000 · EnvironmentTHE NATURE WALKS CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $1,000 · Environment
Other$690,499Food & Nutrition$98,688Human Services$60,467Animals$42,000Health$41,538Philanthropy$32,361Environment$22,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE INTERFAITH NUTRITION NETWORK INC — $80,470 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNassau Bar Foundation Inc — $20,485 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $18,857 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE SOUP KITCHEN INC — $18,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetMK9S SERVICE DOGS — $15,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $14,125 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION TO SAVE HEMPSTEAD HARBOR INC — $13,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTIMOTHY HILL CHILDREN'S RANCH INC — $13,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMUTUAL CONCERNS COMMITTEE — $13,000 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetThe Safe Center LI Inc — $10,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBBC FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetNEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC — $9,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC — $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHOLD FIRE DEPARTMENT — $7,765 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetGLENS FALLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $7,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VISCARDI CENTER INC — $6,875 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC — $6,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORTH FORK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $6,135 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE — $5,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $4,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWICKLUND WARRIORS INC — $4,500 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetRACE TO ERASE MS — $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPEACEFUL ACRES HORSES INC — $4,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWARRIORS FOR A CAUSE INC — $3,825 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTHE SKIN CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $3,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budget11TH HOUR CANINE RESCUE NY INC — $3,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetHENRY VISCARDI SCHOOL — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATIE HOCH FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNORTH FORK BREAST HEALTH COALITION INC — $3,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOHAWK & HUDSON RIVER HUMANE SOCIETY — $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $2,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budget2ND CALL — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 11TH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE INC T/A ELEVENTH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRERUN INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT LONG ISLAND INC CO TOWN HALL — $1,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH FORK COMMUNITY THEATRE INC — $1,110 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $1,027 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INSTITUTE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE WALKS CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLAKE GEORGE ARTS PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSUNFLOWER NETWORK CORPORATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRISING STARS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE AUTISM CIRCLE — $1,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budget
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 THE INTERFAITH NUTRITION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Nassau Bar Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds MK9S SERVICE DOGS ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds COALITION TO SAVE HEMPSTEAD HARBOR INC ↗
  • Who funds TIMOTHY HILL CHILDREN'S RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds MUTUAL CONCERNS COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds The Safe Center LI Inc ↗
  • Who funds BBC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds PECONIC LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHOLD FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds GLENS FALLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VISCARDI CENTER 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.

The New York Communit…Price Chopper's Golub…William Gundry Brough…Pledgeling FoundationJewish Communal FundCommunity Foundation …Ge Aerospace Foundati…American Express Foun…The Pfizer Foundation…Verizon FoundationPaypal Charitable Giv…Morgan Stanley Global…
The New York Community TrustNY14.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Light Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The 11TH Hour Animal Rescue Inc T/a Eleventh Hour Animal Rescue — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 229 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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