Georgia · Nonprofit
BEACON OF HOPE INC
BEACON OF HOPE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,551 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc ($63,653). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Tr Uw Charles I Brananshared fundersportfolio match
- Atl Fdn-W Peters Mainshared funderslocalportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $45k → $25k.
1 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 OF HOPE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 funders by total. 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 OF HOPE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 OF HOPE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 62% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 87% · 2022 90% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
0% of BEACON OF HOPE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
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
70% of BEACON OF HOPE INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchGA · backs 30 organizations that share your funders · funds 85 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Tr Uw Charles I Brananshared fundersportfolio matchMO · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Atl Fdn-W Peters Mainshared funderslocalportfolio matchMO · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · funds 165 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Waterfall Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchGA · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Joseph B Whitehead Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchGA · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · funds 69 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Tull Charitable Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchGA · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 198 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Vasser Woolley Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchGA · funds 78 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Westside Future Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cousins Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Waffle House Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Besse Johnson and George Blanton Allenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Zeist Foundation Incshared funderslocalGA · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · funds 86 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BEACON OF HOPE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BEACON OF HOPE INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BEACON OF HOPE INC?
- BEACON OF HOPE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,551 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc ($63,653). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEACON OF HOPE INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $162,551 in grants to BEACON OF HOPE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEACON OF HOPE INC?
- United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc is the largest funder on record, with $63,653 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEACON OF HOPE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 13funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing