· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Doctors without Borders | $29,500 |
| Covenant House | $10,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,100 |
| Homeless and Destitutes | $5,029 |
| Brothers of Mercy | $4,502 |
| Immaculate Conception | $650 |
| CRS | $500 |
| St Jude Childrens Research | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 80% of grant dollars ($199k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 20% that went abroad ($50k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 20% of all-years giving ($50k)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Little Lamp of Jesus’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 15% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 12%.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 4 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +39%- HOHOPE OF THE WORLD3× · 2020–2022 · $6k · revenue +43%
- TCTHE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND3× · 2020–2022 · $6k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
- MOMISSIONARIES OF CHARITY INCone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…
Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
Aid For Starving Children provides assistance around the world to children and their families by providing food, shelter, clean water, financial assistance, education, and emergency relief to victims of famine, natural disasters, and war.
World orphans vision is to empower the church to care for orphans and vulnerable families. we equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. churches engaged. children restored. communities transformed…
The mission of globus relief is to improve the delivery of healthcare worldwide by gathering, processing and distributing surplus medical and health supplies to charities at home and abroad.
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
Compelled by a deep passion for justice and mercy, World Renew joins communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation with programs focused on disaster response, community health, economic opportunity, food…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 56 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.
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HOPE OF THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH WITH A MISSION GLEANINGS FOR THE HUNGRY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR CANCELED PRIESTS ↗
- Who funds Kids Alive International Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
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 Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Little Lamp of Jesus funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Little Lamp of Jesus. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
- Medical Teams International: 14% of income from government
How this is measured
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