· Private foundation
Shining Light Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $149k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $127k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEBC RUSSIAN JEWISH PROGRAM | $19,200 |
| NEW TRIBES MISSIONS | $18,000 |
| OPERATION MOBILAZATION | $18,000 |
| MISSION VALLEY COMMUNITY | $13,000 |
| CORD MINISTRIES INT | $12,700 |
| ISRAEL RESTORATION MINISTRY | $12,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH | $12,000 |
| BAPTIST MID-MISSION | $12,000 |
| OAKS INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| TECATE MISSION INTERNATIONAL | $9,000 |
| BAPTIST WORLD MISSIONS OUTREACH | $6,000 |
| WHITE FIELDS | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| ASSN BAPTIST WORLD EVANGELISM | $6,000 |
| GRACE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
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 +18% since the first grant, against -20% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CEChild Evangelism Fellowship Of Southern California Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $63k · revenue +46%
GLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $29k · revenue +45%- WFWHITE FIELDS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- WCWEST COAST BAPTIST COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $105k
- LALIFE AND LIGHT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $16k · revenue -20%
- EBETHNOS360 BIBLE INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2023 · $15k
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.
To spread the Gospel of Jesus the Christ
Reconciliaton Ministries Intl. is a Christian evangelical organization preaching and teaching the Word of God in over 60 countries. The ministry equips and encourages Christians everywhere to be saved, healed, and delivered according to…
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
Religious
Ministry
How this is measured
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 44 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 Child Evangelism Fellowship Of Southern California Inc ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL RESTORATION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE FIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds PERCEPTION FUNDING INC ↗
- Who funds AskDrBrown Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Tentmakers Bible Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE AND LIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HLK International Ministries ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF JEWISH MISSIONS 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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Shining Light Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shining Light Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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