Texas · 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.
- $36k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $350
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $23,400
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $373k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Perfect Light Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 26 | $36k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $35k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $35k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $29k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $32k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $40k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $26k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $28k | 57% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concordia Lutheran Church | $174,300 | 9 | n/a |
| Assistance League of Houston | $8,400 | 8 | 1% |
| San Antonio Food Bank | $7,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Crisis Pregnancy Center of New Braunfels | $4,601 | 5 | 0% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $4,300 | 3 | 0% |
| Mothers Against Cancer | $3,700 | 7 | 0% |
| Admiral Nimitz Foundation | $3,500 | 7 | 0% |
| The Navigators | $3,400 | 8 | n/a |
| Young Life | $3,300 | 3 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $2,968 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($48k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Perfect Light Foundation 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.
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
How this is measured
About Perfect Light Foundation
- How much does Perfect Light Foundation give?
- Perfect Light Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $35,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Perfect Light Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (64%), Human Services (8%), Education (6%).
- Who are Perfect Light Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Concordia Lutheran Church ($174k), Assistance League of Houston ($8k), San Antonio Food Bank ($7k).
- Does Perfect Light Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Perfect Light Foundation 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 Perfect Light Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, McKenna Foundation, New Braunfels Area Community Foundation.
- Where is Perfect Light Foundation based?
- Perfect Light Foundation is based in TX.
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