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Find Your Light Foundation

Support & fundraising to help underprivileged children around the world through healthcare, education, and the arts.

$905k
Granted FY2024still arriving
73
Grants FY2024still arriving
20
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.8MYouth Development$117kEducation$58kHuman Services$15kCommunity Improvement$10kAnimals$10kEmployment$8kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 73 grants below total $730,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $905,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $175,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $166k
  • $10k–50k51 grants · $564k
$10,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT INC$25,000
LIVING ARTS$20,000
CATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT$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
SPARC$10,000
THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS THEATRE COMPANY$10,000
MAKE MUSIC NOLA$10,000
826NYC INC$10,000
GLOBAL ARTS CORPORATION$10,000
NYCSALT INC$10,000
CULTURE FOR ONE$10,000
INTEMPO ORGANIZATION$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $5k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
DE
AZ
KS
TN
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 73 repeat orgs$471k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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
44

Total granted

$2.5M
$342k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+21%

Still filing today

96%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCrime & LegalEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $74k · revenue +265%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES MUSIC AND ART SCHOOL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +33%
  • CF
    CULTURE FOR ONE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +537%

Funded once

  • AI
    ARTS IGNITE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +3%
  • CT
    C & T THEATRE
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
  • CF
    ChiArts Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +77%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
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
2
Connecting Through the Arts and Edu
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3
Lachey Arts Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Project Performing Arts Inc

Provide high quality low cost performing arts classes to underserved children in Harlem and the surrounding neigborhoods.

Arts & Culture
5
Youth in Arts

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,…

Arts & Culture
6
Rock Theatre

Instilling a desire in young people to learn to participate in live performances of song and dance.

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7
Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center Lucy Moses School for Music 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…

Arts & Culture
8
Move(Nyc) Foundation Inc

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…

Public Benefit
9
Society of the Third Street Music School Settlement

The mission of third street music school settlement is to provide access to music and dance education to new yorkers of all ages.

Arts & Culture
10
Girls Write Nashville

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Stage Dreams Theater Inc

Youth theater for youth education

Arts & Culture
12
Bloomingdale School of Music

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Be Heard Institute; 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.
04the grantee network

125 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. 125 of the 132 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
124/125
Grantees still filing
91/125
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROCK TO THE FUTURE INC: $73,500 · Arts & CultureCULTURE FOR ONE: $70,000 · Arts & CultureTHE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS THEATRE COMPANY: $67,500 · Arts & CultureAcademy of Music for the Blind: $65,500 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO STRING WORKS INC: $64,000 · Arts & CultureEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC: $62,500 · Arts & Culture+67 more: $1,454,150 · Arts & Culture+67 moreLOS ANGELES MUSIC AND ART SCHOOL: $70,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES MUSIC AND…RAW ART WORKS INC: $52,500 · OtherRAW ART WORKS INCLOS ANGELES COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION: $47,500 · OtherLOS ANGELES COUNTY HI…INTEMPO ORGANIZATION INC: $40,000 · OtherINTEMPO ORGANIZATION …NEIGHBORHOOD ART HOUSE: $37,500 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD ART HOUS…THE WHARTON INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $27,500 · Other1214 FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · OtherUrban Arts Partnership: $20,000 · OtherADVOT: $42,500 · OtherADVOT+21 more: $222,000 · Other+21 moreHarmony Project: $50,000 · EducationHarmony Proj…OAKTOWN JAZZ WORKSHOPS: $50,000 · EducationOAKTOWN JAZZ…GIRLS WRITE NOW INC: $50,000 · EducationGIRLS WRITE …CATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT INC: $40,000 · EducationCATHEDRAL AR…826NYC Inc: $33,500 · Education826NYC IncYOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON: $25,000 · EducationYOUNG AUDIEN…826 BOSTON INC: $15,000 · Education+9 more: $72,500 · Education+9 moreCREATIVE KIDS INC: $17,500 · Youth Development826DC INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOS ANGELES DRAMA CLUB INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentNYC SALT INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentADVANTAGE LANCASTER: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentRENZI EDUCATION & ART CENTER INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentAlbany Park Theater Project: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG STORYTELLERS: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $37,500 · PhilanthropyThe Noel Foundation: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $60,000 · Community ImprovementRosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc: $45,000 · Housing & Shelter
Arts & Culture$1,857,150Other$579,500Education$336,000Youth Development$82,500Philanthropy$67,500Community Improvement$60,000Housing & Shelter$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROCK TO THE FUTURE INC: $73,500 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES MUSIC AND ART SCHOOL: $70,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCULTURE FOR ONE: $70,000 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetTHE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS THEATRE COMPANY: $67,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetAcademy of Music for the Blind: $65,500 over 7y, 6.7% of budgetBUFFALO STRING WORKS INC: $64,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC: $62,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOpening Act Inc: $55,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC: $52,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC: $52,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetAngelica Center for Arts and Music: $52,500 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetHarmony Project: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOAKTOWN JAZZ WORKSHOPS: $50,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetMUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT: $50,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetGIRLS WRITE NOW INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION: $47,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetLiving Arts: $47,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetSUZUKI ORFF SCHOOL FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS: $47,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT: $45,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetRosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $42,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetADVOT: $42,500 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetINTERNAL CREATIONS INC: $40,500 over 5y, 12% of budgetMUSICOPIA INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetYoung Playwrights Theater: $40,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSchool of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetINTEMPO ORGANIZATION INC: $40,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetAMERICAN FESTIVAL FOR THE ARTS: $37,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $37,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget4C LAB: $35,150 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetCreative Arts Workshops for Kids Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHARMONY PROJECT HUDSON INC: $34,500 over 4y, 5.3% of budget826NYC Inc: $33,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetETM-COLORADO INC: $32,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetARTSUP LA: $32,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetBOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetDeveloping Artists Theaters Company Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetSan Fernando Valley Youth Chorus: $30,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetGIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetBROADWAY BOUND KIDS INC: $27,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE WHARTON INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE MUSIC NOLA: $27,500 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetCREATIVE MINDS NYC INC: $27,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON: $25,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGUITARS ANTIQUA MUSIC PROGRAM: $23,000 over 3y, 17% 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.

  • Who funds ROCK TO THE FUTURE INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES MUSIC AND ART SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CULTURE FOR ONE ↗
  • 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 RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds GET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC ↗
  • Who funds Angelica Center for Arts and Music ↗
  • Who funds Harmony Project ↗
  • Who funds OAKTOWN JAZZ WORKSHOPS ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS WRITE NOW INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Living Arts ↗
  • Who funds SUZUKI ORFF SCHOOL FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS ↗
  • 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 School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community ↗
  • Who funds INTEMPO ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FESTIVAL FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
  • 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

D'Addario Foundation …Cornelia T Bailey Cha…Cornelia T Bailey Cha…The Hyde and Watson F…Pinkerton FoundationYouth Improving Non-P…The Pierre & Tana Mat…Snap FoundationGenesis Inspiration F…The Ralph M Parsons F…Rosenthal Family Foun…The Lewis Prize Found…
D'Addario Foundation IncNY66.1× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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How do I get to Find Your Light Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Find Your Light Foundation 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 132 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home