FundersGeorgia

Beloco Foundation Inc

Columbus, GA · EIN 58-6065378. Reported 73 grants totalling $5,553,260 to 46 organizations 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
46organizations funded
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. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

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. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 43 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

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

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 95% of this one's giving went to organizations in Georgia. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Community Foundation of the21 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund21 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc17 shared recipientsBradley-Turner Foundation Inc13 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. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  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). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

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, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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