Tennessee · Nonprofit
Beacon Rescue
Beacon Rescue (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,000 to it, the largest being COOPER FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($125,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $120k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $133k
- Net assets
- $73k
What Beacon Rescue does
Mission
Beacon Rescue is organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes to provide disaster response emergency relief and community resilience services. The organization supports local state and federal partners in times of crisis through search and rescue operations medical response and logistical assistance. Beacon Rescue also conducts preparedness training public safety education and volunteer coordination to strengthen community readiness before during and after emergencies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Disaster Response & Crisis Operations: In 2024 Beacon Rescue deployed trained volunteer teams to federally recognized disaster zones including Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Field units conducted search and rescue medical support and logistics coordination alongside county and state emergency management agencies. Beacons Crisis Information Center integrated satellite mapping real-time damage assessments and secure responder tracking to streamline mutual aid operations. More than 100 households received direct assistance and over $40,000 in resources were coordinated to affected communities.
$64,567 spent77% of program spendingTraining Equipping & Volunteer Development: Beacon Rescue enhanced its volunteer team with FEMA-compliant training in incident command communication security and field safety. The courses readied volunteers for multi-agency coordination resource management and digital mapping tools crucial during deployments. By year-end 25 new volunteers received training and certification bolstering preparedness for upcoming missions. The organization acquired and upheld vital rescue and communication gear guaranteeing team readiness for future operations.
$13,886 spent17% of program spendingSevere Weather Information Technology & Communications: Throughout 2024 Beacon Rescue maintained an intelligence and communications network that monitored severe weather threats produced operational briefings and supported emergency managers during active responses. The Crisis Information Center utilized geospatial data weather-alert automation and partner dashboards to share real-time situational awareness during Hurricanes Helene and Milton. These tools reduced duplication of aid and improved inter-agency coordination across three states.
$5,517 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $83,970.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $31k to $73k (+132%).
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.
100% of Beacon Rescue’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Robert Pasquale
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
John Witherspoon
President of the Board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Rescue’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 Rescue leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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
100% of Beacon Rescue's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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
Beacon Rescue runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Beacon Rescue
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Beacon Rescue: 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 Rescue?
- Beacon Rescue (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,000 to it, the largest being COOPER FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($125,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Beacon Rescue have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $133,000 in grants to Beacon Rescue.
- Who is the largest funder of Beacon Rescue?
- COOPER FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Beacon Rescue find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 2 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