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BEACON MEDIA INC

BEACON MEDIA INC (Missouri) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,759,109 to it, the largest being AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ($1,990,252). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.8M
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$4.8M
Net assets
$569k
10/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 92%
01What it does

What Beacon Media Inc does

Mission

The beacon cultivates engaged and informed communities through accessible reporting and active community engagement on crucial local subjects, anchored by a sustainable nonprofit revenue model.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The beacon news delivers in-depth and free journalism on critical sectors such as government, education, health, labor, and housing across missouri and kansas. Operating through bureaus in kansas city, wichita, topeka, and jefferson city, and in collaboration with other media organizations, we ensure accountability and transparency in governance, enhance public knowledge on health and education, and address economic stability through our labor and housing coverage. Our reporting empowers communities with reliable information essential for democratic participation and improving quality of life.

    $983,871 spent$74,966 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $983,871.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($241k) Expenses 100 ($51k) Net assets 100 ($190k)2021 Revenue 375 ($904k) Expenses 806 ($413k) Net assets 353 ($669k)2022 Revenue 357 ($861k) Expenses 2513 ($1.3M) Net assets 128 ($242k)2023 Revenue 705 ($1.7M) Expenses 2850 ($1.5M) Net assets 251 ($477k)2024 Revenue 738 ($1.8M) Expenses 3639 ($1.9M) Net assets 186 ($352k)2025 Revenue 736 ($1.8M) Expenses 3035 ($1.6M) Net assets 300 ($569k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (736)Expenses (3035)Net assets (300)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $190k to $669k (+253%).

$190k
$669k
$242k
$482k
$430k
$647k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of BEACON MEDIA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,395 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$190k
’20
$491k
’21
−$426k
’22
$238k
’23
−$87k
’24
$217k
’25
4.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Stephanie Campbell

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed9911141210
Joined·+0+3+5+0+2
No longer listed·01224
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $25k → $1.6M.

5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 BEACON MEDIA INC’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

BEACON MEDIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

81% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BEACON MEDIA INC.

42%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 56% · 2022 51% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

83% of BEACON MEDIA INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

BEACON MEDIA INC draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 8 states in all.

NY
MA
CA
MO
VA
DE
KS
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BEACON MEDIA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve4.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)49% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like BEACON MEDIA INC

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 Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 20%Fundraising 16%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

93%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BEACON MEDIA INC?
BEACON MEDIA INC (Missouri) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,759,109 to it, the largest being AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ($1,990,252). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BEACON MEDIA INC have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $4,759,109 in grants to BEACON MEDIA INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BEACON MEDIA INC?
AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,990,252 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BEACON MEDIA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 19 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing