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ELENAS LIGHT INC

ELENAS LIGHT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,267 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS ($30,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$188k
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$198k
Net assets
$80k
6/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Elenas Light Inc does

Mission

We help build brighter futures for refugee women and children.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Patient Research Program

    $184,445 spent$190,000 earned by the program
    80% of program spending
  2. Advocacy for Women and Children

    $30,000 spent$30,000 earned by the program
    13% of program spending
  3. English Classess for Immigrants

    $15,000 spent$15,000 earned by the program
    7% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $229,445.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($79k) Expenses 100 ($84k) Net assets 100 ($71k)2023 Revenue 187 ($148k) Expenses 118 ($99k) Net assets 169 ($119k)2024 Revenue 238 ($188k) Expenses 272 ($227k) Net assets 113 ($80k)
202220232024
Revenue (238)Expenses (272)Net assets (113)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $71k to $119k (+69%).

$71k
$119k
$80k
202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of ELENAS LIGHT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’22
$49k
’23
−$40k
’24

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Tricia McDonough-Ryan

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $3k → $41k.

3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 ELENAS LIGHT INC’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

ELENAS LIGHT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

57% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ELENAS LIGHT INC.

15%
largest funder
33%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 74% · 2022 71% · 2023 37% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

20% of ELENAS LIGHT INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

ELENAS LIGHT INC draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 10 states in all.

IL
NY
PA
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
DE
TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ELENAS LIGHT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−21% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)54% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CT

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Questions and answers

Who funds ELENAS LIGHT INC?
ELENAS LIGHT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,267 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS ($30,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ELENAS LIGHT INC have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $198,267 in grants to ELENAS LIGHT INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ELENAS LIGHT INC?
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ELENAS LIGHT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 20 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