· Private foundation
Beacon of Hope Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOVE COLUMBIA | $87,668 |
| YES ACADEMY | $25,157 |
| COLUMBIA CENTER FOR URBAN | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GRANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $3,288 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| BOLD ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| SHOES FROM THE HEART | $1,000 |
| ST MARY'S STAR OF THE SEA | $584 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $196k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Beacon of Hope Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LCLove Columbia Corp Love Columbia5× · 2021–2025 · $157k · revenue +59%
- CCColumbia Center for Urban Agriculture3× · 2020–2022 · $38k · revenue +103%
- LCLorton Community Action Center Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTHone grant, 2020 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
Family Promise in Anoka County (FPAC) empowers families experiencing housing insecurity to build a foundation of lasting independence.
Compassion Corps is engaged in mobilizing others to carry hope relief and opportunity into regions of Africa plagued by fear and despair through partnership with indigenous Africans in their holistic efforts of compassion.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Sharing Christ's Passion for the world by serving the most vulnerable through national churches and leaders.
Valuing all human life, the ccpc provides hope to those experiencing an unplanned pregnancy, ministers healing to those who have experienced abortion and upholds truth to the community through sexual risk avoidance education.
Community of hope's mission is to improve health, end homelessness, and partner with communities to make washington, dc more equitable.
Inspired by Christian faith, Bishop Sullivan Center shows God's love to people in financial hardship by providing food, help in finding jobs, and other aid. Beyond material assistance, Bishop Sulivan Center strives to build relationships…
To champion and sustain thriving, racially-integrated communities in and around columbia, maryland.
We demonstrate and extend the love and compassion of Jesus Christ to at-risk single moms and their children while equipping them to live independently through reduced cost housing, financial literacy training, scholarships and other…
Sharing the love of christ while promoting sexual integrity and bringing life affirming services to those unprepared for pregnancy or hurt by abortion
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 69 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Beacon of Hope Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Beacon of Hope Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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