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Eternal Lighthouse Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$38k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Religion$48kFood & Nutrition$13kEnvironment$3kHousing & Shelter$3kPhilanthropy$3kHealth$2k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
$3,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$381k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOLY SEEDS CHURCH$20,690
LITTLE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD$5,000
UNDER THE REQUIRED THRESHOLD$4,300
THREE SQUARE$3,500
RAINFOREST FOUNDATION$2,000
NEVADA PARTNERSHIP FOR HOMELESS$2,000
THE COMPASSION INITIATIVE LV$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Institute for Human Services: $3k → 9%LITTLE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD: $5k → 13%NEVADA PARTNERSHIP FOR HOMELESS: $2k → 13%Hawaii Food Bank: $3k → 9%THREE SQUARE: $4k → 13%United Self-Help: $2k → 9%UNDER THE REQUIRED THRESHOLD: $4k → 13%Hawaii Community Foundation: $3k → 9%THE COMPASSION INITIATIVE LV: $1k → 13%Donations to other qualifying chari: $25k → 13%Donations to other qualifying chari: $15k → 13%Donations to domesitcally registere: $4k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Food Basket Inc

The mission of the organization is to feed the hungry in hawaii county while attending to the root causes of this critical social problem. the food basket accomplishes its mission by preventing the waste of all edible food in hawaii…

Food & Nutrition
2
Maui Nui Resiliency Hui

Maui nui resiliency hui (mnrh) is committed to creating a more resilient and equitable future for maui county by focusing on affordable housing solutions that empower our community members. our mission is to collaborate, educate, and…

Education
3
Neighborhood Place of Puna

Neighborhood place of puna (npp) is a child abuse and neglect prevention program. npp provides services to help families build a safe and nurturing home through outreach, home visits, informal counseling, information, referral, advocacy,…

Crime & Legal
4
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.

Food & Nutrition
5
Hokah Area Food Shelf
Food & Nutrition
6
Going Home Hawaii

We focus on providing supportive services to justice-involved individuals in hawai'i. our main goal is to lower the state's recidivism rate through reentry housing and related support.

Crime & Legal
7
The Global Hunger Project

The hunger project is working to create a world without hunger through women-centered, holistic development strategies that address the root causes of hunger and poverty. in 2025, it reached nearly 12.7 million people in over 10,000…

International
8
Common Ground Collective

It is our mission at common ground collective to transform maui into a bountiful and productive island that benefits both the real-life settings, and hands-on assistance; we will help to elevate distressed and underprivileged members of…

Food & Nutrition
9
Catholic Charities Hawaii

Carry out the social mission of the church by serving the people of hawai'i, regardless of their faith or culture.

Human Services
10
Hope Services Hawaii Inc

None

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11
Kalihi-Palama Health Center (Hale Ho'ola Hou)

To provide quality, integrated health and social services to our community and all others in need of health care.

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12
City Harvest Inc

To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Foodbank Inc; the most unlike its peers is Little Children of the World Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Donations to other qualifying chari: $40,278 · OtherDonations to other qualifying chariHOLY SEEDS CHURCH: $20,690 · OtherHOLY SEEDS CHURCHBenevolent Giving 1000: $10,233 · OtherBenevolent Giving 1000LITTLE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD INC: $5,000 · OtherLITTLE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD INCUNDER THE REQUIRED THRESHOLD: $4,300 · OtherDonations to domesitcally registere: $4,249 · Other+3 more: $5,682 · Other+3 moreTHREE SQUARE: $3,500 · Food & NutritionHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterNEVADA PARTNERSHIP FOR HOMELESS YOUTH: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Philanthropy
Other$90,432Food & Nutrition$6,500Environment$5,000Housing & Shelter$5,000Philanthropy$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEVADA PARTNERSHIP FOR HOMELESS YOUTH: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SELF-HELP: $1,682 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Eternal Lighthouse Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eternal Lighthouse Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Eternal Lighthouse Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Eternal Lighthouse Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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