California · Private foundation
Our Little Light Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $631k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations Our Little Light Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $246k 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 | 18 | $631k | 61% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $591k | 48% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $575k | 64% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $635k | 63% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $668k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $490k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $585k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $560k | 77% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association | $410,000 | 6 | 10% |
| Yolo Crisis Nursery | $400,000 | 4 | 3% |
| The Uc Davis Foundation | $390,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bayview Futures Fka Center for Youth Wellness | $195,000 | 3 | 2% |
| First Star Inc | $120,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Meristem Inc | $120,000 | 1 | 2% |
| PRIDE Industries | $115,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Casa of Los Angeles | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Monterey County Inc | $75,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Reach the Valley | $66,146 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Our Little Light Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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.
Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Teichert Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · In-N-Out Burgers Foundation · Kelly Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Placer Community Foundation · The California Endowment · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Ticket to Dream Foundation · Sutter Valley Hospitals · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag
How this is measured
About Our Little Light Foundation
- How much does Our Little Light Foundation give?
- Our Little Light Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $631,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Our Little Light Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Youth Development (15%), Education (15%).
- Who are Our Little Light Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association ($410k), Yolo Crisis Nursery ($400k), The Uc Davis Foundation ($390k).
- Does Our Little Light Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Our Little Light Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Our Little Light Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Teichert Foundation, Sacramento Region Community Foundation.
- Where is Our Little Light Foundation based?
- Our Little Light Foundation is based in CA.
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