Washington · Private foundation
Little Lamp of Jesus
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.
- $59k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,029
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $29,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 22
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $250k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Little Lamp of Jesus funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $59k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $37k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $41k | 55% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $38k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $30k | 52% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $42k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $47,880 | 6 | 0% |
| Covenant House | $10,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Hope of the World | $6,200 | 3 | 0% |
| The Christian Relief Fund | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Orphan Grain Train Inc | $4,350 | 3 | 0% |
| Mercy-Usa for Aid & Developmentinc | $4,050 | 3 | 0% |
| Youth With a Mission Gleanings for the Hungry | $3,550 | 2 | 0% |
| International Relief Teams | $3,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Catholic Relief Services | $2,900 | 2 | n/a |
| Missionaries of Charity Inc | $2,600 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($136k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Little Lamp of Jesus supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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
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About Little Lamp of Jesus
- How much does Little Lamp of Jesus give?
- Little Lamp of Jesus reported 8 grants totaling $59,281 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Little Lamp of Jesus fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (51%), Health (16%), Religion (9%).
- Who are Little Lamp of Jesus's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($48k), Covenant House ($11k), Hope of the World ($6k).
- Does Little Lamp of Jesus fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Little Lamp of Jesus accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Little Lamp of Jesus?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Little Lamp of Jesus based?
- Little Lamp of Jesus is based in WA.
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