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FIND YOUR LIGHT FOUNDATION

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· Public charity

FIND YOUR LIGHT FOUNDATION

Dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to experience a quality arts education.

$905k

Granted FY2024

72

Grants

20

Communities

$25k

Largest

01What you fundRead

03Your edgeRead

04Your fieldRead

05Through PlinthRead

01What you fund

0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$1.8MEducation$326kYouth Development$83kPhilanthropy$68kCommunity Improvement$60kHousing & Shelter$45kCrime & Legal$43kHealth$18kEmployment$15kOther$539k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

childrenmusiclivescarecreateyoungcreation

2019

vital underservedunderserved population

2020

vital underservedunderserved population

2021

vital underservedunderserved population

2022

vital underservedunderserved population

2023

vital underservedunderserved population

2024

vital underservedunderserved population

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k22 grants · $166k
$10k–50k50 grants · $554k

$10,000

Median grant

20

States reached

$6.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT INC$25,000
CATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT$20,000
LIVING ARTS$20,000
BROADWAY BOUND KIDS$17,500
ARTS UP LA$17,500
BUFFALO STRING WORKS INC$12,000
ACADEMY OF MUSIC FOR THE BLIND$12,000
LOS ANGELES MUSIC AND ARTS SCHOOL$10,000
GLOBAL ARTS CORPORATION$10,000
OAKTOWN JAZZ WORKSHOP$10,000
INTEMPO ORGANIZATION$10,000
BAND OF ANGELS$10,000
WRITEGIRL A COMMUNITY PARTNERS PROJECT$10,000
ROSIES HOUSE A MUSIC ACADEMY FOR CHILDREN INC$10,000
THE NOEL POINTER FOUNDATION$10,000

02The need

04

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.5M · 73 repeat orgs$481k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +32% 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73

45

Total granted

$2.5M

$352k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+32%

Still filing today

95%

91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCrime & LegalEmploymentOther

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

RT
ROCK TO THE FUTURE
7× · 2018–2024 · $74k · revenue +185%
CF
CULTURE FOR ONE
7× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +38%
LA
LOS ANGELES MUSIC AND ARTS SCHOOL
4× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +89%

Funded once

AS
ARTIST STRIVING TO END POVERTYgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +32%
CT
C & T THEATRE
one grant, 2017 · $12k
BV
BLACKSTONE VALLEY PREP - RI MAYORAL ACADEMYgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +55%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1

Muse Academy at the Brooklyn Music

MUSE seeks to develop the full potential of every child as lifelong learners, expressive artists, and active citizens in his or her community.

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2

Intonation Music Workshop

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,…

Arts & Culture

3

San Francisco Arts Education Project

Driven by our artist visions and the students they teach, SFArtsED is a multi-program organization offering services in public schools, art summer camps, and a musical theatrical group.

Arts & Culture

4

Ansonia Music Outreach Organization Inc

Our mission is to establish the musical arts as a more essential and valuable experience in the lives of the general public. Our Access to Music program brings classical music to a new broad audience through free concerts events and…

Arts & Culture

5

Sound Art Inc

Sound art dba in the band is dedicated to empowering the youth of los angeles and beyond through access to music education and mentoring in community centers, schools and online. founded to fulfill the need for an affordable and culturally…

Arts & Culture

6

Limitless Performing Arts

Performing Arts education

Arts & Culture

7

Open Arts Alliance Inc

Open Arts Alliance empowers youth through performing arts education in a supportive environment fostering creativity, confidence and self expression. Our programs nurture the next generation of leaders both on and off the stage while…

Health

8

Stage Dreams Theater Inc

Youth theater for youth education

Arts & Culture

9

Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc

Bam is the home for adventurous artists, audiences, and ideas.

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10

Broadway Bound Childrens Theatre

To create exceptional theatrical productions that awaken the very best in children and teens.

Arts & Culture

11

On Stage Inc

Our mission is to create, share, and support live theater and high-quality youth arts education that is inclusive and accessible to all regardless of ability, identity, age, or socio-economic background.

Arts & Culture

12

Springboard for the Arts

To cultivate vibrant arts communities by connecting artists with the skills, information and services they need to make a living and a life.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education Through Music Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tides 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%2/132

the rest of the field

11%

206,162/1,819,433

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.

05the grantee network

124 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

1

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

54

Early backer (in before they grew)

123/124

Grantees still filing

94/124

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$1,822,650Other$614,000Education$326,000Youth Development$82,500Philanthropy$67,500Community Improvement$60,000Housing & Shelter$45,000

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.

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.

D'Addario Foundation IncNY58.1× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: D'Addario Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children · Pinkerton Foundation · Snap Foundation · Genesis Inspiration Foundation · Rosenthal Family Foundation · The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation

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 organisation 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE NOEL POINTER FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 820632634 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE NOEL POINTER FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 87% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Find Your Light Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Find Your Light Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines