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Beloco Foundation Inc

Columbus, GA · EIN 58-6065378. Reported 73 grants totalling $5,553,260 to 46 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$50,000median grant
$5,553,260granted, 2021-2024
46recipients, as named on its returns
50%of grantees funded again the next year
$36.7Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Beloco Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $50,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $30,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $250,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
4 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
3 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
7 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
6 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
24 grants
$100,000 and Up
29 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Springer Opera HouseColumbus, GA$600,000442024
Wesleyan CollegeMacon, GA$500,000442024
Mercymed of ColumbusColumbus, GA$350,000442024
Children's Healthcare of AtlantaAtlanta, GA$325,000332023
Feeding the ValleyMidland, GA$300,000332024
Andrew CollegeCuthbert, GA$282,000222022
Truth Spring IncColumbus, GA$277,500332024
Mcg FoundationAugusta, GA$250,000112024
National Infantry Museum'Columbus, GA$250,000222024
Columbus HospiceColumbus, GA$210,000222024
Salvation ArmyColumbus, GA$207,000222022
Emory UniversityAtlanta, GA$200,000222023
Historic Columbus FoundationColumbus, GA$150,000112023
The Food MillColumbus, GA$150,000332024
Girls IncColumbus, GA$130,000112021
Micah's PromiseColumbus, GA$110,000112021
Columbus Technical CollegeColumbus, GA$100,000222022
Rabun-Gap Nacoochee SchoolRabun Gap, GA$100,000112022
Safehouse MinistriesColumbus, GA$100,000112022
The Rollins College Museum of Fine ArtsWinter Park, FL$90,000112024
Columbus MuseumColumbus, GA$82,000112022
The Methodist HomeMacon, GA$80,000112022
Brookstone SchoolColumbus, GA$75,000112023
FabartsColumbus, GA$50,000112023
Open Door Community HouseColumbus, GA$50,000112024
Pan African Academy of Christian SurgeonsDallas, TX$50,000112022
Pavillion InternationalMill Spring, NC$50,000112024
The Mill DistrictColumbus, GA$50,000112022
Wesley Glen MinistriesMacon, GA$50,000112023
Wynn HouseColumbus, GA$50,000112022
Columbus State UniversityColumbus, GA$41,550222024
Methodist Home for ChildrenRaleigh, NC$40,000112024
Valley Rescue MissionColumbus, GA$30,000112024
Columbus Botanical GardensColumbus, GA$25,000112021
Dooly CampgroundVienna, GA$25,000112024
Pastoral InstituteColumbus, GA$25,000112024
Epworth By the SeaSt Simons Island, GA$20,000112021
Philanthropy SoutheastAtlanta, GA$18,210332024
American Red CrossBoone, IA$10,000112024
Community Foundation of North FloridaTallahasse, FL$10,000112024
Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee ValleyColumbus, GA$10,000112021
Jeah's Hope FoundationHillsborough, NC$10,000112023
Samaritans PurseBoone, NC$10,000112024
House of HeroesColumbus, GA$5,000112022
National Center for Family PhilanthropyWashington, DC$4,000222024
Mt Mckeithan Baptist ChurchColumbus, GA$1,000112024

16 of 46 (35%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 50%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 43 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Education
10 grants
Arts & Culture
7 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
7 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Community Improvement
4 grants
Food & Nutrition
3 grants
Religion
3 grants
Human Services
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202116$1,339,500$100,000
202220$1,415,000$81,000
202314$1,340,000$100,000
202423$1,458,760$50,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

95% of its giving went to organizations in Georgia. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Georgia
$5.3M
North Carolina
$110K
Florida
$100K
Texas
$50K
Iowa
$10K
District of Columbia
$4K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund23 shared recipientsCommunity Foundation of the22 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc18 shared recipientsBradley-Turner Foundation Inc14 shared recipientsGeorgia Power Foundation Inc13 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation12 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $50,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Georgia.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Beloco Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 140, Columbus, GA, 31902. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 58-6065378 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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