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The Light Brigade

Supported various Kern County youth baseball programs through sponsorships and donations and equipment and supplies.

$17k
Granted FY2018
2
Itemized grants FY2018
2
Organizations funded FY2018
0%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Itemized, FY2018
$11k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2018
$5,635
Largest grant, FY2018
$5,635
Organizations funded a year
2 to 3
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
1
Total assets, FY2018
$55k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 0% of the organizations The Light Brigade funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20182$11k0%
FY20173$21kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Recreation & Sports$32k

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2018.

Kern High School District$5,635
North High School$5,500

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How do I get to The Light Brigade?

Find your warmest path to The Light Brigade 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.

About The Light Brigade

How much does The Light Brigade give?
The Light Brigade reported 2 itemized grants totaling $11,135, out of $17,158 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does The Light Brigade fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (100%).
Does The Light Brigade fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is The Light Brigade based?
The Light Brigade is based in CA.

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 3 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2026) is on record but names no grant recipient (grants abroad are filed by region only, and grants under $5,000 are not itemized), so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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