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Light a Single Candle Foundation Nf

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$2.7MFood & Nutrition$430kHousing & Shelter$178kEducation$176kYouth Development$142kCrime & Legal$125kCommunity Improvement$120kHuman Services$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD FOR ALL DC$3,000
PHILANTHROPY MISSOURI$3,000
COLUMBUS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$200
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HELP FOR HAITI: $72k → 5%FATHERS & FAMILIES SUPPORT CENTER: $100k → 21%PROSPERITY CONNECTION: $25k → 21%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

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NY
MA
CA
CO
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GA
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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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Light a Single Candle Foundation Nf’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Light a Single Candle Foundation Nflessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 14% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 8 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
43

Total granted

$2.5M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
0%

Still filing today

63%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CI
    Cross International Inc
    3× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +8%
  • SN
    SEMILLA NUEVA
    3× · 2017–2023 · $407k · revenue +738%
  • LF
    Lift for Life Gym Inc
    2× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • AF
    Amigos For Christ Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $311k · revenue +8%
  • TS
    THE SOULFISHER MINISTRIESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +35%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $118k · revenue -31%
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
Sustainable Harvest International

Working together to create a just and sustainable world through transformative farmer training that nourishes communities and the Earth.

Environment
2
Gardens for Health International

Gardens for Health International works to provide lasting agricultural solutions to chronic childhood malnutrition

International
3
International Leadership Institute

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…

Religion
4
Nuru International

Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…

International
5
Earthenable Inc

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…

International
6
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
7
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
8
Onechild Global

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.

International
9
Unum International Inc

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.

International
10
Aqua-Africa Inc

Transform east african communities by providing access to clean well water and water systems.

International
11
Roots of Development Inc

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.

International
12
Next Worldwide Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 54 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/33
Grantees still filing
18/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cross International Inc: $1,677,536 · ReligionCross International IncSEMILLA NUEVA: $406,671 · InternationalSEMILLA NUEVAAmigos For Christ Inc: $310,860 · InternationalAmigos For Christ IncFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $252,657 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INCGlobal Learning Exchange Initiative: $54,000 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPE: $50,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $50,000 · InternationalGroundswell International Inc: $50,000 · International+5 more: $110,400 · International+5 moreCROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC: $97,525 · OtherCROSS CATHOLIC OU…STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DVLP: $50,000 · OtherSTRATEGIES FOR IN…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WC & NE MO: $50,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDAT…Individual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant …CREAMOS: $46,400 · OtherCREAMOSBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ST LOUIS: $45,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB…PUEBLO A PUEBLO: $25,000 · OtherLOVE THE LOU: $35,000 · OtherLOVE THE LOUTABERNACLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25,000 · OtherLift for Life Gym Inc: $26,500 · OtherTHE WYMAN CENTER: $34,340 · OtherTHE WYMAN CENTER+19 more: $145,705 · Other+19 moreFATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS: $100,000 · Human ServicesHELP FOR HAITI INC: $72,000 · Human ServicesPROSPERITY CONNECTION: $25,000 · Human ServicesBEYOND HOUSING INC: $65,625 · Housing & ShelterNORTHSIDE COMMUNITY HOUSING INC: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterNORTH GRAND NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $117,500 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY MISSOURI: $8,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES: $125,000 · Education
Religion$1,677,536International$1,284,588Other$630,470Human Services$197,000Housing & Shelter$127,625Philanthropy$126,500Education$125,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSEMILLA NUEVA: $406,671 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetAmigos For Christ Inc: $310,860 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $252,657 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES: $125,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $117,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS: $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHELP FOR HAITI INC: $72,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBEYOND HOUSING INC: $65,625 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGlobal Learning Exchange Initiative: $54,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGroundswell International Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES: $37,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE THE LOU: $35,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE WYMAN CENTER: $34,340 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $28,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLift for Life Gym Inc: $26,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPROSPERITY CONNECTION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPUEBLO A PUEBLO: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTABERNACLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNew Roots Haiti: $25,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetNATUN GUATEMALA: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGIRLS IN THE KNOW: $15,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSUPPLY HOPE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNAMLO INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetNORTH GRAND NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetPHILANTHROPY MISSOURI: $8,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC: $4,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOURI ENERGYCARE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

St Louis Community Fo…United Way of Greater…Commerce Bancshares F…Community Foundation …St Louis Community Fo…Employees Community F…St Louis Philanthropi…Edward Jones Foundati…Enterprise Bank & Tru…Youthbridge Community…Centene FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO26.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Light a Single Candle Foundation Nf funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Light a Single Candle Foundation Nf. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Light a Single Candle Foundation Nf?

Find your warmest path to Light a Single Candle Foundation Nf 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 54 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home