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The Beacon Place NFP

The Beacon Place NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,348,798 to it, the largest being AbbVie Foundation ($1,432,107). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$887k
Funders on record
58
Grants received
$3.3M
Net assets
$1.3M
42/58 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 66%
01What it does

What The Beacon Place NFP does

Mission

To inspire and guide our neighborhoods children and families toward a brighter tomorrow.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Beacon Place served more than 150 families through year-round academic, enrichment, and family support programs, providing over 7,000 hours of instruction and services to youth from kindergarten through 12th grade. The organization supported academic achievement, college and career readiness, outdoor leadership, physical wellness, and social-emotional development through programs such as Education Enrichment, LAUNCH, Chicago Voyagers, and summer learning initiatives. In addition to educational programming, Beacon Place addressed food insecurity by distributing 783 lunches, 460 food backpacks, more than 6,300 pounds of food, 1,300 pounds of fresh produce, and 180 grocery bags to families in need. Family engagement remained a key focus, with the Moms Program expanding by 30 and participants contributing over 400 volunteer hours. Eight college-bound seniors graduated and received support with tutoring, financial aid applications, college visits, and financial literacy education. 300 volunteers contributed 2,792 service hours, generating an estimated labor value exceeding 100,000.

    $770,883 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $770,883.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($545k) Expenses 100 ($365k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 195 ($1.1M) Expenses 236 ($862k) Net assets 118 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 130 ($706k) Expenses 179 ($652k) Net assets 123 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 202 ($1.1M) Expenses 267 ($974k) Net assets 134 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 178 ($969k) Expenses 286 ($1.0M) Net assets 128 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 149 ($811k) Expenses 238 ($866k) Net assets 123 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 171 ($932k) Expenses 276 ($1.0M) Net assets 136 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 140 ($760k) Expenses 234 ($852k) Net assets 128 ($1.4M)2025 Revenue 163 ($887k) Expenses 292 ($1.1M) Net assets 112 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (163)Expenses (292)Net assets (112)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 2017 to 2018, from $1.2M to $1.4M (+17%).

$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.6M
$1.5M
$1.3M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 0% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of The Beacon Place NFP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$180k
’17
$202k
’18
$54k
’19
$129k
’20
−$73k
’21
−$55k
’22
−$73k
’23
−$92k
’24
−$179k
’25
9.6
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

Maha Worden

Executive Director

Board chair

Andy Graves

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.

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Listed8888995117
Joined·+2+3+2+1+5+2+6+1
No longer listed·23205605
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $178k → $614k.

13 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 The Beacon Place NFP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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

The Beacon Place NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 52%; half comes from just 3 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

25% 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 The Beacon Place NFP.

43%
largest funder
52%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 64% · 2019 63% · 2020 38% · 2021 45% · 2022 37% · 2023 28% — 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

42% of The Beacon Place NFP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

91% of The Beacon Place NFP's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

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IL
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NC
FL

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

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $576k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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

The Beacon Place NFP is better cushioned than half of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−20% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve9.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 23%Fundraising 4%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

71%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Beacon Place NFP?
The Beacon Place NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,348,798 to it, the largest being AbbVie Foundation ($1,432,107). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Beacon Place NFP have?
IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $3,348,798 in grants to The Beacon Place NFP, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Beacon Place NFP?
AbbVie Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,432,107 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Beacon Place NFP find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 58 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