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Light Up to Live Inc

Light up to live, inc.

$479k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$158k
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.

Animals$473kHealth$261kHuman Services$207kPhilanthropy$10kRecreation & Sports$10k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $353,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $479,455 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $125,955 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.
$96,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$662k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VETS Inc$157,500
Patriot Paws Service Dogs$96,000
PATRIOTIC SERVICE DOG FOUNDATION$50,000
Canine Companions for Independence$50,000
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 (FY20–24, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Canine Companions for Independence: $50k → 9%Patriot Paws Service Dogs: $96k → 5%ADAPTIVE TRAINING FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$840k · 3 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +86% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$840k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%
+45%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthPublic BenefitOther
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

  • PS
    PATRIOTIC SERVICE DOG FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $423k
  • VE
    VETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $256k · revenue +86%
  • PP
    PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $161k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • TF
    Task Force Dagger Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +84%
  • TR
    THE ROGER CLEMENS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +20%
  • AT
    Adaptive Training Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +178%
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
A Cause to Give Us Paws

Service Dog training for Disabled Veterans

Animals
2
For Veterans Sake Foundation

For veteran's sake foundation is here to provide an alternative solution to dealing with pts (post traumatic stress). we use a combination of a (non-therapeutic) neuro-traumatic resourcing, service dogs and consulting. working with the…

Health
3
Companions for Heroes

To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.

Human Services
4
Semper K9 Assistance Dogs

Combat veteran-founded and operated Semper K9s mission is to enhance the quality of life for wounded members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families by providing them with custom-trained mental health mobility service dogs. Using…

Public Benefit
5
Veteran Service Dogs Organization

Provide service dogs to us military veterans

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6
Faithfully K9 Service Dog and Dog Training

Empower disabled individuals to train a dog as their service dog, increasing their independence.

Animals
7
Pawsitive Pawsibilities

To purchase and train service dogs for disabled individuals

Animals
8
Spartan Paws 4 Warriors

Service dogs for disabled veterans

Animals
9
CJ3 Foundation

Cj3 foundation provides services, support, and advocacy to united states military service members, veterans/disabled veterans, law enforcement, and emergency responders who need/require assistance, and then connecting them with resources…

Human Services
10
Baden K9 Kares Foundation Inc

to assist veterans in obtaining service animals

Human Services
11
Paws for Purple Hearts

Paws for Purple Hearts improves the lives of America's Warriors facing mobility challenges and trauma-related conditions such as PTSD and TBI by providing the highest quality assistance dogs and canine-assisted therapeutic programs; and by…

Public Benefit
12
Duty First Assistance Dogs

Providing service dogs to veterans and first responders

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Patriot Paws Service Dogs; the most unlike its peers is The Roger Clemens 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 9 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

PATRIOTIC SERVICE DOG FOUNDATION: $422,895 · OtherPATRIOTIC SERVICE DOG FOUNDATIONVETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS: $256,000 · HealthVETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATME…+1 more: $5,000 · HealthPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $161,000 · Human ServicesPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGSCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDE…Adaptive Training Foundation: $10,000 · Human ServicesTask Force Dagger Foundation: $40,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ROGER CLEMENS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyBoots for Troops: $6,000 · Public Benefit
Other$422,895Health$261,000Human Services$221,000Philanthropy$50,000Public Benefit$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS: $256,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $161,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTask Force Dagger Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE ROGER CLEMENS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetAdaptive Training Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBoots for Troops: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDALLAS SCI RECOVERY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to Light Up to Live Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Light Up to Live Inc 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 9 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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