· Private foundation
Perfect Light Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONCORDIA LUTHERAN CHURCH | $23,400 |
| ROOM REDUX | $1,500 |
| NEW BRAUNFELS FOOD BANK | $1,500 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF HOUSTON | $1,500 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $700 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $700 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $500 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $500 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER NEW BRAUNFELS | $500 |
| CURE RTD FOUNDATION | $500 |
| LCMS | $500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $500 |
| NEW BRAUNFELS ANGELS | $500 |
| TURNING POINT FOR GOD | $350 |
| NAVIGATORS | $300 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 5 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ALAssistance League of Houston8× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +29%
- SASAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +60%
- CPCrisis Pregnancy Center of New Braunfels5× · 2018–2024 · $5k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- BUBIOLA UNIVERSITY ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2020 · $15k
- CCRUone grant, 2023 · $1k
- VFVAULT FOSTERING COMMUNITYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +51%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Moral compass federation facilitates collaboration among multiple veteran-led nonprofit organizations, individuals, and businesses who came together during the fall of kabul, afghanistan to evacuate and resettle afghan allies who were in…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is San Jose Vietnam War Memorial. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 86 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Assistance League of Houston ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Crisis Pregnancy Center of New Braunfels ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS AGAINST CANCER ↗
- Who funds ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM REDUX ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMATIONS BY AUSTIN ANGELS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER NEW BRAUNFELS ↗
- Who funds VAULT FOSTERING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
- Who funds COMAL COUNTY FAMILY VIOLENCE SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Cure RTD Foundation ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · McKenna Foundation · New Braunfels Area Community Foundation · United Way of Comal County · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Veramendi Charitable Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Perfect Light Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.