Missouri · Private foundation
Beacon of Hope Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $160k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $87,668
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 26
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Beacon of Hope Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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 | 13 | $160k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $162k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $194k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $212k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $150k | 54% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $148k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Love Columbia Corp Love Columbia | $157,330 | 5 | 1% |
| Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture | $37,519 | 3 | 1% |
| Destiny of HOPE | $35,000 | 2 | 43% |
| Worley Street Roundtable | $14,500 | 3 | n/a |
| American Legion Auxiliary | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The American Legion | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jugaad Leadership Program | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Educate Fairfax | $4,120 | 1 | 0% |
| Columbia College | $2,517 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Pregnancy Clinics Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Love Columbia Corp Love Columbia | $157,330 | 5 | 1% |
| Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture | $37,519 | 3 | 1% |
| Destiny of HOPE | $35,000 | 2 | 43% |
| Worley Street Roundtable | $14,500 | 3 | n/a |
| American Legion Auxiliary | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The American Legion | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jugaad Leadership Program | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Educate Fairfax | $4,120 | 1 | 0% |
| Columbia College | $2,517 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Pregnancy Clinics Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Bold Academy | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lorton Community Action Center Inc | $1,992 | 2 | 0% |
| Be the Village Inc | $1,919 | 1 | 1% |
| Shoes From the Heart | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Stillpoint Mission Inc | $900 | 2 | 0% |
| Somerset Christian School Inc | $519 | 1 | 0% |
| Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Maxwell Meiborg Foundation Ltd | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Manasota-Solve Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Lamb Center | $496 | 1 | 0% |
| Incarnation Catholic School | $281 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($746k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Beacon of Hope Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 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: Veterans United Foundation · Boone Electric Community Trust · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Beacon of Hope Foundation
- How much does Beacon of Hope Foundation give?
- Beacon of Hope Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $159,697 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 26 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Beacon of Hope Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Human Services (21%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
- Who are Beacon of Hope Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Love Columbia Corp Love Columbia ($157k), Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture ($38k), Destiny of HOPE ($35k).
- Does Beacon of Hope Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Beacon of Hope Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Beacon of Hope Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Veterans United Foundation, Boone Electric Community Trust, The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc.
- Where is Beacon of Hope Foundation based?
- Beacon of Hope Foundation is based in MO.
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