Virginia · Nonprofit
BE THE LIGHT
BE THE LIGHT (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,502 to it, the largest being CHAD CAMPANA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ($4,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $85k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $76k
What Be the Light does
Mission
Be the Light shines the light of Christ through good works for God's glory.(Matthew 5:16)
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provision of Medical Care - Provided speech pathology services in Kenya to children with special needs. Provided medical training of staff of Baby Center on safe feeding practices for children with special needs. 44 persons served. Provision of Feminine Hygiene Kits and Education on Sexual Violence Prevention - Provided washable sustainable feminine hygiene kits to school-aged girls and young women in Kenya and Zambia as well as hygiene and sexual violence prevention eductaion. 580 persons served. Sustainability Projects - Provision of materials to promote project sustainability of humanitarian aid effort in Kenya. 975 persons served. Other Projects - Provided masks and blankets for disaster/crisis relief in Peru and the US and support for local school teachers as well as teaching ESL to adults in the US. 778 persons served
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $56k to $76k (+35%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of BE THE LIGHT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $4k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BE THE LIGHT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BE THE LIGHT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 94% · 2021 93% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
BE THE LIGHT draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $502 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BE THE LIGHT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,080 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,080 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
Organizations like BE THE LIGHT
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BE THE LIGHT: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BE THE LIGHT?
- BE THE LIGHT (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,502 to it, the largest being CHAD CAMPANA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ($4,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BE THE LIGHT have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $8,502 in grants to BE THE LIGHT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BE THE LIGHT?
- CHAD CAMPANA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BE THE LIGHT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2020–2021), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing