· Private foundation
Light a Single Candle Foundation Nf
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FATHERS & FAMILIES SUPPORT CENTER | $100,000 |
| CROSS INTERNATIONAL | $78,084 |
| HELP FOR HAITI | $72,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| NORTHSIDE COMMUNITY HOUSING | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WC & NE MO | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ST LOUIS | $45,000 |
| LOVETHELOU | $35,000 |
| PROSPERITY CONNECTION | $25,000 |
| NATUN GUATEMALA | $15,000 |
| LIFT FOR LIFE GYM | $15,000 |
| NORTHSIDE YOUTH & SENIOR CENTER | $10,000 |
| PHILANTHROPY MISSOURI | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTH | $1,000 |
| NETWORK OF ENGAGED INTERNATIONAL DO | $500 |
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 (FY24–24, $197k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Light a Single Candle Foundation Nf’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +8% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 12 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, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $454k 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
- CICross International Inc3× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +8%
- SNSEMILLA NUEVA3× · 2017–2023 · $407k · revenue +738%
- LFLift for Life Gym Inc2× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- AFAmigos For Christ Incone grant, 2023 · $311k · revenue +8%
- TSTHE SOULFISHER MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +35%
- SLST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $118k · revenue -31%
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.
Working together to create a just and sustainable world through transformative farmer training that nourishes communities and the Earth.
Gardens for Health International works to provide lasting agricultural solutions to chronic childhood malnutrition
Healthy Ninos Honduras works for the health and wholeness of Honduran people, focusing on nutrition, wellness, hygiene, and education.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Earthenable works to solve the housing crisis in africa by revolutionizing the rural housing industry through innovative, affordable, and sustainable home-building solutions. its mission is to create healthier, safer, and climate-resilient…
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
One child global's mission is to advocate for children in hard places and provide holistic care so they have hope and thrive. onechild global's 355 hope centers provide holistic child development progress in nineteen countries.
UNUM International is a Christian nonprofit who seeks to address, educate, coordinate, and provide aid and relief to eradicate chronic malnutrition, physical and spiritual hunger, and illiteracy in Guatemala.
Transform east african communities by providing access to clean well water and water systems.
Yours Humanly (YH) transforms the lives of children in need around the world by providing access to quality education and equitable resources. Through its two flagship initiatives, Coloring Futures and Bridging Gaps, YH has completed 34…
Roots of development's mission is to help leaders in marginalized communities acquire the organizational skills and financial resources they need to manage their own development and sustainably improve quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Love the Lou. 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 22 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 — 6% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 52 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 Cross International Inc ↗
- Who funds SEMILLA NUEVA ↗
- Who funds Amigos For Christ Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds HELP FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds Global Learning Exchange Initiative ↗
- Who funds Groundswell International Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE COMMUNITY HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES ↗
- Who funds LOVE THE LOU ↗
- Who funds THE WYMAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds Lift for Life Gym Inc ↗
- Who funds TABERNACLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PUEBLO A PUEBLO ↗
- Who funds PROSPERITY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds New Roots Haiti ↗
- Who funds GIRLS IN THE KNOW ↗
- Who funds NATUN GUATEMALA ↗
- Who funds SUPPLY HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH GRAND NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NAMLO INTERNATIONAL 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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Community Foundation of the Quincy Area · St Louis Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · St Louis Philanthropic Organization · Edward Jones Foundation · Enterprise Bank & Trust Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Centene Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Light a Single Candle Foundation Nf 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% 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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