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Light Foundation Inc Co Leslie Coleman

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$161k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
5%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$42,500
Organizations funded a year
12 to 26
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$859k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Light Foundation Inc Co Leslie Coleman funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesCrime & LegalPhilanthropyEducationHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving22$161k9%
FY202421$131k5%
FY202322$143k23%
FY202226$148k27%
FY202120$111k35%
FY202016$99k25%
FY201913$95k23%
FY201812$82k25%
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$559kRecreation & Sports$117kSocial Science$117kHuman Services$93kInternational$50kArts & Culture$36kYouth Development$20kCrime & Legal$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

OH
PA
CA
CO
KY
VA
AZ
TN
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Denton Bible Church$337,9008n/a
Coaches Outreach$76,50091%
Bible Study Fellowship$60,50090%
Samaritan's Purse$40,00040%
Amerson Music Ministries$37,00071%
Behind Every Door Ministries Inc$34,50050%
Dallas Theological Seminary$27,50090%
The Navigators$25,0009n/a
College Golf Fellowship$15,00050%
Refuge for Women Inc$10,00070%
Show all 26 grantees
All grantees of Light Foundation Inc Co Leslie Coleman by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Denton Bible Church$337,9008n/a
Coaches Outreach$76,50091%
Bible Study Fellowship$60,50090%
Samaritan's Purse$40,00040%
Amerson Music Ministries$37,00071%
Behind Every Door Ministries Inc$34,50050%
Dallas Theological Seminary$27,50090%
The Navigators$25,0009n/a
College Golf Fellowship$15,00050%
Refuge for Women Inc$10,00070%
Denton Freedom House$8,80050%
Vail Bible Church$8,0004n/a
Launch Global$7,5003n/a
Rafiki Foundation Inc$5,00010%
The Well Community Church$5,0001n/a
Turning Point USA Inc$5,00010%
Paul Tripp Ministries Inc$5,00010%
Kershaw's Challenge$4,50020%
Miracle of Pentecost Foundation Inc$4,00011%
Lakewood Connects Inc$3,00012%
MIO Frontiers$2,00010%
Westmont College$2,00010%
Prison Fellowship Ministries$1,50010%
Fort Worth Presbyterian Church$5001n/a
All Saints Health Foundation$50010%
Fellowship of Catholic University Students$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($320k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Light Foundation Inc Co Leslie Coleman supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCoaches Outreach: $76,500 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetBible Study Fellowship: $60,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerson Music Ministries: $37,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetBehind Every Door Ministries Inc: $34,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDallas Theological Seminary: $27,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Golf Fellowship: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRefuge for Women Inc: $10,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDenton Freedom House: $8,800 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRafiki Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaul Tripp Ministries Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKershaw's Challenge: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMiracle of Pentecost Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLakewood Connects Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMIO Frontiers: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestmont College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrison Fellowship Ministries: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAll Saints Health Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX21.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Dallas Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation

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.

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About Light Foundation Inc Co Leslie Coleman

How much does Light Foundation Inc Co Leslie Coleman give?
Light Foundation Inc Co Leslie Coleman reported 22 grants totaling $161,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Light Foundation Inc Co Leslie Coleman fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (53%), Recreation & Sports (11%), Social Science (11%).
Who are Light Foundation Inc Co Leslie Coleman's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Denton Bible Church ($338k), Coaches Outreach ($77k), Bible Study Fellowship ($61k).
Does Light Foundation Inc Co Leslie Coleman fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Light Foundation Inc Co Leslie Coleman accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Light Foundation Inc Co Leslie Coleman?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Christian Community Foundation Inc, Servant Foundation.
Where is Light Foundation Inc Co Leslie Coleman based?
Light Foundation Inc Co Leslie Coleman is based in TX.

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 47 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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