· Public charity
Find Your Light Foundation
Support & fundraising to help underprivileged children around the world through healthcare, education, and the arts.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 73 grants below total $730,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $905,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $175,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $166k
- $10k–50k51 grants · $564k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT INC | $25,000 |
| CATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT | $20,000 |
| LIVING ARTS | $20,000 |
| ARTS UP LA | $17,500 |
| BROADWAY BOUND KIDS | $17,500 |
| BUFFALO STRING WORKS INC | $12,000 |
| ACADEMY OF MUSIC FOR THE BLIND | $12,000 |
| 826NYC INC | $10,000 |
| GET LIT - WORDS IGNITE | $10,000 |
| MAKE MUSIC NOLA | $10,000 |
| WRITEGIRL A COMMUNITY PARTNERS PROJECT | $10,000 |
| INTERNAL CREATIONS INC | $10,000 |
| 826NYC INC | $10,000 |
| GLOBAL ARTS CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| INNER CITY NEIGHBORHOOD ART HOUSE | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- RTROCK TO THE FUTURE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $74k · revenue +265%
- CFCULTURE FOR ONE7× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +537%
- LALOS ANGELES MUSIC AND ART SCHOOL4× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- AIARTS IGNITE INCone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +3%
- CTC & T THEATREone grant, 2017 · $12k
- CFChiArts Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +77%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Intonation kids explore their limitless potential by learning to play instruments and forming their own rock bands. Our year-round classes make music accessible to children in low-income neighborhoods by providing them with instruments,…
Lachey arts, inc. is focused on using the arts to build a diverse community of young artists, empowering the creative spirit and giving the confidence and tools to change the world.
Provide high quality low cost performing arts classes to underserved children in Harlem and the surrounding neigborhoods.
Youth in Arts builds visual and performing arts skills through innovative and in-depth programs that foster confidence, compassion and resilience in students of all abilities. We develop capacity among educators and teaching artists,…
Instilling a desire in young people to learn to participate in live performances of song and dance.
Kaufman music center stimulates appreciation of and participation in music through music performance and education in ways that awaken creativity, advance innovation, and create a sense of wonder among performers, students, teachers, and…
Move|nyc| is a civic arts and social justice organization committed to cultivating a more diverse and inclusive society through transforming the field of professional dance. more than an arts organization, move|nyc| is a movement for…
The mission of third street music school settlement is to provide access to music and dance education to new yorkers of all ages.
Girls write nashville empowers expression through songwriting, production, mentorship and creative community for teen artists. we are an artist and educator-led 501(c)(3) creative youth development program in nashville, tn allied with…
Youth theater for youth education
To provide access to high-quality music education for anyone who seeks it, regardless of economic status, ability level, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Be Heard Institute and the most unlike its peers is The Noel Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
125 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 125 of the 132 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ROCK TO THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURE FOR ONE ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MUSIC AND ART SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Academy of Music for the Blind ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO STRING WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Opening Act Inc ↗
- Who funds GET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC ↗
- Who funds Angelica Center for Arts and Music ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WRITE NOW INC ↗
- Who funds Harmony Project ↗
- Who funds OAKTOWN JAZZ WORKSHOPS ↗
- Who funds MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUZUKI ORFF SCHOOL FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS ↗
- Who funds Living Arts ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Rosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOT ↗
- Who funds INTERNAL CREATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICOPIA INC ↗
- Who funds Young Playwrights Theater ↗
- Who funds CATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds INTEMPO ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FESTIVAL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds 4C LAB ↗
- Who funds Creative Arts Workshops for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds HARMONY PROJECT HUDSON INC ↗
- Who funds 826NYC Inc ↗
- Who funds ETM-COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSUP LA ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: D'Addario Foundation Inc · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children · The Pierre & Tana Matisse Foundation Inc · Snap Foundation · Genesis Inspiration Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Rosenthal Family Foundation · The Lewis Prize Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Find Your Light Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boston Music Project Inc — 9% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- Central Square Theater Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Theater Offensive Inc — 2% of income from government
- Intempo Organization Inc — 2% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Miami Music Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cathedral Arts Project Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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