Texas · Nonprofit
PROJECT BEACON
PROJECT BEACON (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $928,487 to it, the largest being PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ($531,270). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $759k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $928k
- Net assets
- $731k
What Project Beacon does
Mission
Project Beacon builds a community of belonging where adults with autism and other neurodiversities can play, learn, work and live.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Project Beacon established a strategic partnership with inspire nd which was able to enhance and accelerate the services available to neurodiverse adults in our community. Project Beacon secured a space to establish the beacon access center which will be a transofrmational hub to support adults across the autism spectrum. Set to open in may 2025, the beacon access center will feature a vocational skills studio, a zen zone activity area and an independence lab, all tailored to help individuals reach their full potential in a supportive and enriching environment. Project Beacon launched a study of needs of montgomery county residents with austism and/or intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. Partnered with tri county behavioral healthcare, this study was able to analyze local needs, preferences and demographics. The final results will be published in april 2025.
$30,877 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $30,877.
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
Kelly Baughman
Executive director, co-founder
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
12 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 PROJECT BEACON’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
PROJECT BEACON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 PROJECT BEACON.
“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
90% of PROJECT BEACON's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $95k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $833k 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.
Against its field
PROJECT BEACON runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PROJECT BEACON
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
10% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROJECT BEACON: 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 PROJECT BEACON?
- PROJECT BEACON (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $928,487 to it, the largest being PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ($531,270). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PROJECT BEACON have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $928,487 in grants to PROJECT BEACON, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT BEACON?
- PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $531,270 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT BEACON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 15 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