Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BE THE JOY FOUNDATION
BE THE JOY FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,581 to it, the largest being JOHN J AND ANNA B HEWES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $104k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $34k
What Be the Joy Foundation does
Mission
To perform acts of kindness and joy
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To serve the public good and bring joy to community members by raising funds to perform both acts of kindness and service toprovide relief to community workers and children.
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BE THE JOY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BE THE JOY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
BE THE JOY FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BE THE JOY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,535 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,535 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like BE THE JOY FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BE THE JOY FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BE THE JOY FOUNDATION?
- BE THE JOY FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,581 to it, the largest being JOHN J AND ANNA B HEWES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BE THE JOY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $3,581 in grants to BE THE JOY FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BE THE JOY FOUNDATION?
- JOHN J AND ANNA B HEWES FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BE THE JOY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing