· Private foundation
Light the Candle Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VYO USA INC | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,001 |
| MARY MARTHA HOUSE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HINDU UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA | $2,369 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,252 |
| MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY | $1,008 |
| TABERNACULO LA FE DE TAMPA | $1,000 |
| NEW LIFE MISSIONS | $1,000 |
| NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH OF RUSK | $1,000 |
| FOUNDATION CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| CROWDFUND PEER-TO-PEER | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TGTAMPA GENERAL FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2021 · $36k
- MMMARY MARTHA HOUSE4× · 2021–2025 · $32k
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2020–2022 · $21k
Funded once
- GFGIVE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -102%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $11k
- VVRAJone grant, 2019 · $11k
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.
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.
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Develops legal and technical infrastructure for digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
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Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
An educational organization, which conducts research, informs and educates the public on various national and international issues.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 60 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds Hindu University of America ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Light the Candle Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Light the Candle Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
How this is measured
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