Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Children of Light
Children of Light (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being THE JENNIFER RIORDAN FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $52k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $500
- Net assets
- $91k
What Children of Light does
Mission
To inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in the lives of homeless and needy children to fight hunger. Our program is to support community driven initiative offering after school program mentorship and leadership opportunities to help young people develop confidence life skills and a sense of purpose. also to provide workshops counselling and access to financial resources like grants and donations to help community members manage their finances and achieve economic stability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Clothes distribution in the neiborhood of fitchburg massachusetts every 6months and feed the homeless around the community.
$22,000 spentof which $22,000 as grants24% of program spendingFood shoes soap and cleaning supplies distribution to kids and homeless in the community every 6 months
$23,000 spentof which $23,000 as grants26% of program spendingToys distribution during christmas season every year in the community for children and families in need of a gift. We serve cook food and coffe for all.
$45,000 spentof which $45,000 as grants50% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $90,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $81k to $91k (+12%).
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.
28% of Children of Light’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Children of 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.
Where its funders are
Children of Light draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Children of Light's revenue fell 52% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Children of 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 Children of 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 Children of Light?
- Children of Light (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being THE JENNIFER RIORDAN FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Children of Light have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500 in grants to Children of Light.
- Who is the largest funder of Children of Light?
- THE JENNIFER RIORDAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Children of Light find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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