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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.

$14k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$87kArts & Culture$24kInternational$12kEducation$11kPhilanthropy$8kHealth$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$156k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE$5,000
THE WENGER FOUNDATION$2,500
JOURNEY CHURCH$1,000
STRASBURG FIRE COMPANY NO 1$1,000
TEN MILLION FOR CHRIST$1,000
THREE STRANDS$1,000
THE WORSHIP CENTER$1,000
LINVILLE HILL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$1,000
LANCASTER NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER$250
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CHRIST'S HOME: $1k → 9%BRITTANY'S HOPE: $500 → 9%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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$99k · 10 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +51% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
13

Total granted

$99k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+51%

Still filing today

60%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesReligionCrime & LegalArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • WF
    WENGER FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +431%
  • LH
    LINVILLE HILL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    2× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +53%
  • JA
    JESSICA AND FRIENDS COMMUNITY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • CP
    Christian Performing Arts Tuition Scholarship Fund
    one grant, 2020 · $24k · revenue -100%
  • GV
    Global Vision Outreach Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +409%
  • NV
    NAOMI'S VILLAGE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +37%
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
Florence Christian Home
Human Services
2
Christian Vision North America
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3
Christian Lingua Services
Religion
4
Jesus in Vietnam Ministries
Religion
5
Still Waters Christian Boarding School

Ministry provides a spiritual healing ministry for troubled and delinquent children, and quality academic education.

Education
6
Judah International Evangelistic

Home nbsp;healthcare nbsp;and nbsp;preaching nbsp;of nbsp;the nbsp;gospel

Religion
7
Christian Ministries International
—
8
Sole Ministries

None

Religion
9
Christ's Hospital
—
10
Worldcast Ministries

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…

Religion
11
Christian Financial Outreach and Impact Foundation Inc
—
12
Westbury Christian School

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christs Home; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 24 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOURNEY CHURCH INC: $56,000 · OtherJOURNEY CHURCH INCWORSHIP CENTER INC: $14,100 · OtherWORSHIP CENTER INCLINVILLE HILL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $6,000 · OtherLINVILLE HILL CHRISTIAN SCHOOLPENN VIEW BIBLE INSTITUTE: $5,000 · OtherPENN VIEW BIBLE INSTITUTEDOVE WESTGATE CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherDOVE WESTGATE CHURCH+8 more: $7,520 · Other+8 moreChristian Performing Arts Tuition Scholarship Fund: $23,950 · ReligionChristian Performin…TEN MILLION FOR CHRIST: $1,600 · ReligionTEN MILLION FOR CHR…Global Vision Outreach Inc: $5,300 · InternationalNAOMI'S VILLAGE INC: $5,000 · InternationalTHREE STRANDS: $1,000 · InternationalWENGER FOUNDATION INC: $8,250 · PhilanthropyLANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE: $5,200 · EducationJESSICA AND FRIENDS COMMUNITY: $3,100 · HealthCHRISTS HOME: $1,000 · Human ServicesBRITTANY'S HOPE: $500 · Human ServicesWATER STREET MINISTRIES: $100 · Human Services
Other$93,620Religion$25,550International$11,300Philanthropy$8,250Education$5,200Health$3,100Human Services$1,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChristian Performing Arts Tuition Scholarship Fund: $23,950 over 1y, 18% of budgetWENGER FOUNDATION INC: $8,250 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetLINVILLE HILL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Vision Outreach Inc: $5,300 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetLANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE: $5,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAOMI'S VILLAGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJESSICA AND FRIENDS COMMUNITY: $3,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEN MILLION FOR CHRIST: $1,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTRASBURG FIRE COMPANY NO 1: $1,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTS HOME: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE STRANDS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUSTICE & MERCY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBRITTANY'S HOPE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAVOD PERFORMING ARTS: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWATER STREET MINISTRIES: $100 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.

Lancaster County Comm…Shady Maple FoundationEden Bridge FoundationClark Associates Char…Natl Christian Charit…Christian Community F…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Lancaster County Community FoundationPA17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Global Vision Outreach Inc: 0% of 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 · 0–15%
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.

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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
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