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.
- Revenue FY2017
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $163k
- Net assets
- $0
What Beacon of Hope Inc does
Mission
The mission of beacon of hope is to strengthen families and communities through education, human services (family empowerment and support), community development (including affordable housing), and advocacy in the old fourth ward and surrounding communities.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Program
See schedule o.education: to provide accredited, accessible, and affordable early childhood and school-aged (out of school time) educational services to the children and youth of the old fourth ward and surrounding pockets of poverty throughout metro atlanta - through evidence-based instructional programs designed to promote child and youth development in all developmental domains - ensuring that children and youth are successful in school and in life.family empowerment: to consistently provide effective services that strengthens families and encourages successful living - personally and within the community.- maintain safe, healthy, and economically-viable environments for residents; and- address the various needs of the community in an effort to improve the quality of life through the provision of opportunities related to: employment, fair and quality housing, financial planning, life skills, violence and drug prevention/intervention.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 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.
Organizations like BEACON OF HOPE 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 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.
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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 13 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