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Pathlight Ministries Inc

To spread the gospel of jesus christ throughout the world.

$37k
Granted FY2022
47
Grants FY2022
14
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2022 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$550
Median grant
14
States reached
$126k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RADIANT LIVES INC$6,150
WORLD MISSIONS ALLIANCE$4,080
KIDNEY HEART AND CANCER PATIENT OUTREACH$2,000
WIDOWS RENTAL ASSISTANCE OUTREACH$2,000
BUNGOMA BIBLE MINISTRIES (KENYA)$1,300
HOPE THE MISSION$1,200
CRU$850
FAITH HOPE AND LOVE FELLOWSHIP$700
3 ANGELS MINISTRIES - HAITI$650
Individual grant recipient$650
WYCLIFFE ASSOCIATES$600
FRED JORDAN MISSION$600
INTERNATIONAL PRISON MINISTRY$600
WIDOWS MITE MISSION$600
MALAYSIA MISSIONS OUTREACH HOKYO$600
02The need
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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 (FY22–22, $550) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 11%INDIA GOSPEL LEAGUE: $550 → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
OH
CA
UT
CO
MO
AZ
KS
DC
HI
TX
FL
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 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
Training Pastors International

Training pastors in third world countries

Religion
2
International Chapel Ministries

Evangelize japanese by establishing chapels, home bible studies, training and production of literature for free distribution.

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3
Worldcast Ministries

Publishing, writing, sales & distribution of Christian Books; speaking throughout the US and foreign countries on Christian subjects. Attending orphanages, Christian schools and Bible colleges in the US and foreign countries assisting in…

Religion
4
Hope International Ministries

To engage in missionary work and the training and sponsoring of missinoaries to spread and teach the wortd of god and to distribute bibles in conformity with the tenants of worship and service, discipline, rules, regulations, rites,…

Religion
5
Christian Mission Inc

Interdenominational support ministry

Religion
6
Activation International Ministries

Teaching and ministering to pastors internationally and in the usa.

Religion
7
Gods Promise Ministries International

Religious Purposes

Housing & Shelter
8
Hope Christian Ministries International

Ministries

Religion
9
House of Prayer for All Nations

Church ministry

Religion
10
Word Alive Ministries

Preaching the word of god plus ministering in song.

Religion
11
Spirit Invasion Ministries

Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
12
International Praise Harvest Ministries

Conducting religious services and worship through the preaching of the word of god evangelism and outreach

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Appalachian Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Scv Pregnancy Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RADIANT LIVES INC: $6,150 · OtherRADIANT LIVES INCWIDOWS RENTAL ASSISTANCE OUTREACH: $2,000 · OtherWIDOWS RENTAL ASSISTANCE OUTREACHKIDNEY HEART AND CANCER PATIENT OUTREACH: $2,000 · OtherKIDNEY HEART AND CANCER PATIENT OUTREACHBUNGOMA BIBLE MINISTRIES (KENYA): $1,300 · Other+32 more: $15,330 · Other+32 moreWORLD MISSIONS ALLIANCE INC: $4,080 · ReligionWORLD MISSIONS AL…Warford Ministries: $600 · ReligionWarford Ministrie…HEALING WINGS MINISTRIES INC: $600 · ReligionHEALING WINGS MIN…HOLLYWOOD PRAYER NETWORK INC: $500 · ReligionHOLLYWOOD PRAYER …HOPE THE MISSION: $1,200 · Human ServicesINDIA GOSPEL LEAGUE INC N AMERICA: $550 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $550 · Human ServicesInternational Prison Ministry Inc: $600 · Crime & LegalBIBLE INSTITUTE OF HAWAII: $550 · EducationSCV PREGNANCY CENTER: $550 · HealthCHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND: $550 · International
Other$26,780Religion$5,780Human Services$2,300Crime & Legal$600Education$550Health$550International$550

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORLD MISSIONS ALLIANCE INC: $4,080 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE THE MISSION: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Prison Ministry Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWarford Ministries: $600 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHEALING WINGS MINISTRIES INC: $600 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBIBLE INSTITUTE OF HAWAII: $550 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSCV PREGNANCY CENTER: $550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIA GOSPEL LEAGUE INC N AMERICA: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLYWOOD PRAYER NETWORK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds WORLD MISSIONS ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE THE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds International Prison Ministry Inc ↗
  • Who funds Warford Ministries ↗
  • Who funds HEALING WINGS MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds BIBLE INSTITUTE OF HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds SCV PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND ↗
  • Who funds INDIA GOSPEL LEAGUE INC N AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLLYWOOD PRAYER NETWORK 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.

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get 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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Pathlight Ministries Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Pathlight Ministries 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 47 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $97k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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