New Mexico · Private foundation
God's Light in the Darkness Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2024
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,240,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 45
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $68M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations God's Light in the Darkness Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $844k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 43 | $4.5M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $3.0M | 44% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $6.9M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $2.1M | 52% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $6.5M | 59% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $6.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noah's Ark Animal Refuge Inc | $3,292,077 | 6 | 55% |
| Rescued Pets Movement Inc | $1,813,670 | 6 | 14% |
| Faith Hope & Love Foundation | $1,811,000 | 6 | 47% |
| First United Methodist Church | $1,100,388 | 5 | n/a |
| Landsun Homes Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Three Little Pitties Rescue | $409,707 | 3 | 5% |
| 2 Blondes All Breed Rescue Inc | $406,085 | 6 | 21% |
| Carc Inc | $300,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Sacramento Camp and Conference Center Inc | $250,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Carlsbad Transitional Housing & Homeless | $125,500 | 3 | 41% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($17M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
God's Light in the Darkness Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
Compare God's Light in the Darkness Foundation with peer funders
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About God's Light in the Darkness Foundation
- How much does God's Light in the Darkness Foundation give?
- God's Light in the Darkness Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $4,521,218 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 45 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does God's Light in the Darkness Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (33%), Animals (26%), Education (19%).
- Who are God's Light in the Darkness Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Noah's Ark Animal Refuge Inc ($3.3M), Rescued Pets Movement Inc ($1.8M), Faith Hope & Love Foundation ($1.8M).
- Does God's Light in the Darkness Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does God's Light in the Darkness Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as God's Light in the Darkness Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Carlsbad Community Foundation Inc, Xcel Energy Foundation.
- Where is God's Light in the Darkness Foundation based?
- God's Light in the Darkness Foundation is based in NM.
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