· Private foundation
Light of the World Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| THE WENGER FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| JOURNEY CHURCH | $1,000 |
| TEN MILLION FOR CHRIST | $1,000 |
| THREE STRANDS | $1,000 |
| STRASBURG FIRE COMPANY NO 1 | $1,000 |
| THE WORSHIP CENTER | $1,000 |
| LINVILLE HILL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| LANCASTER NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER | $250 |
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 (FY20–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- WFWENGER FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +431%
- LHLINVILLE HILL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL2× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +53%
- JAJESSICA AND FRIENDS COMMUNITY2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- CPChristian Performing Arts Tuition Scholarship Fundone grant, 2020 · $24k · revenue -100%
- GVGlobal Vision Outreach Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +409%
- PVPENN VIEW BIBLE INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Ministry provides a spiritual healing ministry for troubled and delinquent children, and quality academic education.
Home nbsp;healthcare nbsp;and nbsp;preaching nbsp;of nbsp;the nbsp;gospel
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Publishing, writing, sales & distribution of Christian Books; speaking throughout the US and foreign countries on Christian subjects. Attending orphanages, Christian schools and Bible colleges in the US and foreign countries assisting in…
The private school offers a complete curriculm from pre-school to grade 12 in a christian environment. the school is affilitated with the church which is located on the same property. the school is operated on church owned property.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christs Home and the most unlike its peers is Wenger Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 24 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 Christian Performing Arts Tuition Scholarship Fund ↗
- Who funds WENGER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LINVILLE HILL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Global Vision Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NAOMI'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds JESSICA AND FRIENDS COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds TEN MILLION FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds STRASBURG FIRE COMPANY NO 1 ↗
- Who funds CHRISTS HOME ↗
- Who funds THREE STRANDS ↗
- Who funds BRITTANY'S HOPE ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE & MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds CAVOD PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds WATER STREET MINISTRIES ↗
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: Lancaster County Community Foundation · Shady Maple Foundation · Eden Bridge Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 of the World Foundation 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.
- Global Vision Outreach 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.