· Private foundation
God's Light in the Darkness Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of GOD'S LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $398k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+5 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NOAHS ARK ANIMAL RESCUE | $1,240,000 |
| CARLSBAD PREP ACADEMY | $500,000 |
| FIRST METHODIST CHURCH | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $400,000 |
| RESCUE PETS MOVEMENT | $310,000 |
| THREE LITTLE PITTIES ANIMAL RESCUE | $175,089 |
| ALL ABOARD ANIMAL RESCUE | $145,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $137,446 |
| FAITH HOPE AND LOVE FOUNDATION | $127,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $121,000 |
| 2BLONDES ALL BREED RESCUE | $115,785 |
| APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST | $75,000 |
| OASIS CHURCH | $50,000 |
| SACRAMENTO CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
51 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 22 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $840k 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
- NANOAH'S ARK ANIMAL REFUGE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +165% · 55% of their budget
- RPRESCUED PETS MOVEMENT INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +15%
- TLTHREE LITTLE PITTIES RESCUE3× · 2022–2024 · $410k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- LHLANDSUN HOMES INCone grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue -79%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $250k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $220k
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.
To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs
Animal rescue
Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.
An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.
Rescue dogs, which includes housing, vetting, and transport.
Saving dogs
Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dancing Dog Rescue and Recovery Ranch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Faith Hope & Love Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 109 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 NOAH'S ARK ANIMAL REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUED PETS MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH HOPE & LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LANDSUN HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds THREE LITTLE PITTIES RESCUE ↗
- Who funds 2 BLONDES ALL BREED RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds CARC INC ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Carlsbad Transitional Housing & Homeless ↗
- Who funds OVERLAND MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds LOLAS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds JONAH'S HOUSE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CARLSBAD INC ↗
- Who funds 4 Paws 4 Life Rescue ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CARLSBADINC ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Carlsbad Community Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Lauretta Boyd Charitable Trust · Petco Love · Gifts From God Foundation · Every Creature Counts · United Way of Eddy County · Western Union Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Petsmart Charities 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 God's Light in the Darkness 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.
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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