Beacon Group Inc.

“A copy of form 990 was reviewed by the audit and finance committee prior to filing. A copy of form 990 was e-mailed to the full board of directors for their individual review.”

“In order to ensure complete public confidence in the impartiality and honesty of beacon group board members and senior management and to help beacon group board members and senior management avoid conflicts of interest or the potential of appearance of such conflicts, beacon group requires that its board members and senior management abide by the conflict of interest rules and guidelines. In order to monitor and enforce these guidelines a disclosure statement is distributed to, and signed annually by, all board members and senior management. If a conflict of interest is discovered, that person is prohibited from participating in the board's decision on the transaction and must abstain from voting.”

“The organization completed a rebuttable presumption checklist for the president/ceo of beacon group that was provided by its independent accountant. The organization relied upon forms 990 of comparable organizations. The executive committee of the board of directors met and reviewed information, and made a recommendation to the full board of directors for the compensation package. The executive committee approved and authorized the last compensation study for the president/ceo on november 16, 2018 for the 2018 - 2019 fiscal year. Compensation of other officers and key employees is based on evaluations performed by their supervisor. Merit increases are given based on budget and performance.”

“Approximately every 3 years summary financial information is compiled and made available on the organization's website. In addition, effort is made to keep guidestar.org updated with the appropriate financial information. Governing documents and conflict of interest policy are available upon request.”

“Facilities and equipment services: beacon group provides custodial services for a variety of customers including the federal and state governments, as well as various commercial companies. Custodial employees clean over 5,000,000 square feet of office and commercial space each day. Custodial services provide training and job opportunities for people with disabilities with choices of work settings and crew responsibilities. Beacon has over 70 additional worksites in communities across arizona that provide varied employment opportunities in services such as vehicle washing, landscape maintenance, paint recycling, assembly, packaging, warehousing, and fulfillment. Beacon also provides total facilities management (tfm) services on government abilityone contracts: first to the defense information systems agency (disa), joint interoperability test command (jitc) at fort huachuca, az, where 16 different individual administrative, facilities maintenance, and logistics tasks are performed; second at hill afb, utah, to provide equipment and facilities support, where over 20 people are employed; and third at camp williams, utah, to provide snow renowal services with a couple employees. These tfm contracts have allowed beacon to hire many people with disabilities, including over a dozen veterans, and some employees have advanced into competitively-placed positions within commercial companies.”

“Rehabilitation: for both supported employment and job development and placement services funded through the rehabilitation services administration, beacon group was able to maintain its state-wide recognized quality of services by placing 358 individuals into competitive, integrated employment while continuing to serve a significant number of individuals throughout the fiscal year. A total of 2200 persons with a wide variety of disabilities were served during 2018-2019, a significant increase. 1175 of these individuals received training, employment, or other services within beacon's facilities or at one of over 50 community worksites at local employers with whom beacon has developed and fostered mutually beneficial business partnerships. The remainder of the individuals served received job development and placement services to assist them in finding and maintaining competitive, integrated jobs within the local community. Through the organization's employment programs, last year beacon clients earned $2.5 million in wages and benefits.”

“Production and document destruction: many companies, local, national, and even international, contract with beacon group to perform custom manufacturing, assembly, and packaging. This work is a training and development vehicle for people with disabilities, and provides a source of sustaining income and many different employment choices. Beacon can handle everything from high-volume production to small custom-work runs. For example, beacon assembled over 40,000,000 rivets and fasteners for a global aerospace company, and manufactured and packaged tens of thousands of rodent repellant products for vic west imports, among many others. On a smaller scale, beacon assembled and packaged just dozens of unique beaded necklaces for a local jewelry craftsman. No job is too big or too small for beacon to consider. Beacon's custom wire and cable harness business serves many industries including medical device manufacturers, military applications, and others. Clients and staff assembled over 100,000 cable devices. Within beacon production facility, people have a choice of over 15 jobs to work at. Beacon's secure document destruction business processed over 2,500,000 pounds of paper and other media (an average of over 5 tons of materials per day) for over 1,600 shredding business and individual customers. Beacon is one of two exclusive providers of document and media destruction services to the state of arizona.”