Rhode Island · Private foundation
The Beacon Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $197k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 173
- Grants FY2024
- 86
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 89
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations The Beacon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | 126 | $189k | 46% |
| FY2023 | 86 | $151k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 89 | $111k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $109k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island Institute for Labor Studies and Research | $80,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association | $19,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Crossroads Rhode Island | $15,725 | 3 | 0% |
| Rhode Island Cpcu Scholarship Fund | $15,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Gregg's Giving Tree Inc | $13,500 | 4 | 10% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc | $13,300 | 2 | 0% |
| Martin Luther King Community Center Incorporated | $11,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Meeting Street | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Community College of Ri Foundation | $10,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Special Olympics Rhode Island Inc | $10,075 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 154 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($65k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Beacon Foundation 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 Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust
How this is measured
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About The Beacon Foundation
- How much does The Beacon Foundation give?
- The Beacon Foundation reported 173 grants totaling $196,897 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 89 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does The Beacon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Health (18%), Employment (14%).
- Who are The Beacon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Rhode Island Institute for Labor Studies and Research ($80k), Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association ($19k), Crossroads Rhode Island ($16k).
- Does The Beacon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Beacon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Beacon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, The Champlin Foundation, United Way of Rhode Island Inc.
- Where is The Beacon Foundation based?
- The Beacon Foundation is based in RI.
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