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The Lamp Foundation at a glance

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The Lamp Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$46k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$356kEducation$243kHuman Services$2kHealth$620Other$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $87k
$3,585
Median grant
1
States reached
$590k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$45,500
ANDRES IGNACIO ZANNON LG$21,650
INTERNATIONAL ANGLICAN CHURCH$20,000
Individual grant recipient$6,847
Individual grant recipient$4,174
Individual grant recipient$3,585
MABILIA MARTINEZ DE BRITO$2,048
Individual grant recipient$624
REINA DE LOS ANGELES$408
Individual grant recipient$310
Individual grant recipient$208
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 35% of grant dollars ($212k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 65% that went abroad ($389k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 10% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE HILLS CHURCH: $1k → 11%GREAT CITIES MISSION: $7k → 14%A&M CHURCH OF CHRIST: $2k → 22%INTERNATIONAL ANGLICAN CHURCH: $20k → 9%TEACH BEYOND: $19k → 7%MISSION CHURCH OF CHRIST: $8k → 19%THE HILLS CHURCH: $500 → 11%GREAT CITIES MISSIONS: $2k → 14%TEACH BEYOND: $13k → 7%THE HILLS CHURCH: $300 → 11%RESOURCING CHRISTIAN EDUCATION: $30k → 7%RESOURCING CHRISTIAN EDUCATION: $30k → 7%RESOURCING CHRISTIAN EDUCATION: $30k → 7%RESOURCING CHRISTIAN EDUCATION: $30k → 7%RESOURCING CHRISTIAN EDUCATION: $18k → 7%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.

Beyond the US: 65% of all-years giving ($389k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Venezuela$389k · 39 grants
Costa Rica$337 · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$530k · 14 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
8

Total granted

$530k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
+113%

Still filing today

7%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    7× · 2019–2025 · $192k
  • RC
    Resourcing Christian Education International
    5× · 2019–2023 · $138k · revenue -4%
  • AI
    ANDRES IGNACIO ZANNON LG
    2× · 2024–2025 · $47k

Funded once

  • AI
    ANDRES IGNACIO ZANNON IGLESIA DE CRISTO DE PUERTO ORDAZ
    one grant, 2023 · $28k
  • MC
    MISSION CHURCH OF CHRIST
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • MR
    MELANIE RUIZ URBANIZACION VILLA BOLIVIA
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

2 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. 2 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
1/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $191,572 · OtherIndividual grant recipientANDRES IGNACIO ZANNON LG: $46,600 · OtherANDRES IGNACIO ZANNON LGIndividual grant recipient: $44,839 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTEACHBEYOND INC: $31,725 · OtherTEACHBEYOND INCANDRES IGNACIO ZANNON IGLESIA DE CRISTO DE PUERTO ORDAZ: $27,500 · OtherANDRES IGNACIO ZANNON IGLESIA DE CRISTO DE PUERTO ORDAZINTERNATIONAL ANGLICAN CHURCH: $20,000 · Other+18 more: $99,136 · Other+18 moreResourcing Christian Education International: $137,500 · ReligionResourcing Christian Educa…+1 more: $2,495 · Religion
Other$461,372Religion$139,995

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetResourcing Christian Education International: $137,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTRAIN INTERNATIONAL: $2,495 over 1y, 1.3% 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 Resourcing Christian Education International ↗
  • Who funds TRAIN INTERNATIONAL ↗

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.

Christian Community F…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Christian Community Foundation IncCO15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Lamp Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lamp Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
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
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.

    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 26 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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