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Light of Dawn Foundation at a glance

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Light of Dawn Foundation

Provide necessary goods, services and funds to religious and other charitable organizations that help provide food, shelter and clothing for the less fortunate.

$62k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$388kHuman Services$287kFood & Nutrition$160kHealth$46k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $56,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $62,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$36,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$110k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MARK'S CATHOLIC CHURCH$36,000
THE PINES CATHOLIC CAMP$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LORETO HOUSE: $30k → 8%HOP ON A CURE FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%LORETO HOUSE: $15k → 8%LORETO HOUSE: $15k → 8%COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER: $23k → 11%COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER: $16k → 11%COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER: $13k → 11%COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER: $12k → 11%COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER: $8k → 11%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$880k · 7 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +92% since the first grant, against +78% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$880k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%
+78%

Still filing today

71%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPublic BenefitReligionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    7× · 2018–2024 · $160k · revenue +92%
  • LH
    LORETO HOUSE
    3× · 2018–2022 · $60k · revenue +494%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $36k · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • CC
    CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • HO
    HOP ON A CURE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +29%
  • TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +78%
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
Chance for Hope Foundation

The mission of the chance for hope foundation is to provide support services for children with cancer and their families, funding for pediatric cancer research and treatment, and educational resources to the general public regarding…

Unclassified
2
Halo House Foundation

Halo House's mission is to help save the lives of cancer patients battling leukemia, lymphoma, or myeloma by providing them with low-cost, fully furnished temporary housing while undergoing active cancer treatment at the Texas Medical…

Health
3
Camp for All Foundation

Camp For All transforms the world for children and adults with challenging illnesses, disabilities, or special needs.

Youth Development
4
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
5
Carson Leslie Foundation

To raise funds for research leading to a cure for pediatric cancer and enrich the lives of teens in the battle.

Health
6
Cook Children's Medical Center

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
7
Texas Children's Hospital

Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…

Health
8
Good News Foundation of Texas
Philanthropy
9
Curebound

Curebound's mission is to accelerate cancer research and save lives. we raise and invest strategic funding for innovative adult and pediatric cancer research with one vision: cures in our lifetime.

Health
10
The Kortney Rose Foundation Inc

The mission of the kortney rose foundation is to eradicate pediatric brain tumors by funding the world's most promising, collaborative research

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11
Bountiful Children's Foundation

Bringing life-altering nutritional supplements to children throughout the world.

—
12
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pines Education Group dba the Pines Catholic Camp; the most unlike its peers is La Promesa Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARK CATHOLIC CHURCH: $308,730 · OtherST MARK CATHOLIC CHURCHCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION: $225,000 · OtherCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATIONNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $160,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK+1 more: $20,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $70,585 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ENRICHM…LORETO HOUSE: $60,000 · Human ServicesLORETO HOUSEHOP ON A CURE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOP ON A CURE FOU…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $36,000 · HealthLA PROMESA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · ReligionThe Pines Education Group dba The Pines Catholic Camp: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Public Benefit
Other$713,730Human Services$140,585Health$36,000Religion$20,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Public Benefit$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $160,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $70,585 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLORETO HOUSE: $60,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $36,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLA PROMESA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOP ON A CURE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

The Bonfield Family F…Textron Charitable Tr…The US Charitable Gif…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bonfield Family FoundationTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bonfield Family Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · The US Charitable Gift Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Light of Dawn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Light of Dawn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Light of Dawn Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Light of Dawn Foundation 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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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