Oklahoma · Nonprofit
FESTIVAL OF LIGHT INC
FESTIVAL OF LIGHT INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ($70,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $421k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $-25069
What Festival of Light Inc does
Mission
To conduct, manage and promote a holiday lighting program annually in the city of chickasha, oklahoma
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Provide a holiday lighting program from thanksgiving to new year's eve. The program runs nightly from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm on weeknights and 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm on weekends. The program includes more than 3.5 million lights illuminating various structures within shannon springs park as well as various displays placed throughout the park and includes computer animated shows set to music. 40,000 vehicles and over 250,000 visitors are expected through the park each season.
$324,461 spent81% of program spendingProvide a gift shop and concession to attract visitors to the holiday lighting program. The gift shop and concession features unique gifts, homemade cinnamon rolls, and hot chocolate for the enjoyment of those attending the program. It also provides shelter from the outside as visitors walk through the park. The gift shop maintains the same hours as the holiday lighting program it supports. Note: all expenses associated for this achievement are captured in cost of goods sold on the statement of revenue
Market and attract visitors to the annual holiday light show. The organization advertised with various media including 4 magazines, 4 newspapers with 1 online publication, and on the radio. The various media outlets reached hundreds of thousands of people across oklahoma and north texas.
$4,240 spent1% of program spendingProvide attractions other than lights to draw visitors (I.e. Nativity event and horse-drawn carriage rides)
$72,045 spent18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $400,746.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $499k to $293k (−41%).
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.
53% of FESTIVAL OF LIGHT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $5k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 FESTIVAL OF 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
FESTIVAL OF LIGHT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 FESTIVAL OF LIGHT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 91% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
88% of FESTIVAL OF LIGHT INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Oklahoma, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k 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
FESTIVAL OF LIGHT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 442 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 442 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Government funding FESTIVAL OF LIGHT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1k on record.
- Printing & Binding Contrs$1k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FESTIVAL OF LIGHT INC
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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FESTIVAL OF LIGHT INC: 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 FESTIVAL OF LIGHT INC?
- FESTIVAL OF LIGHT INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ($70,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FESTIVAL OF LIGHT INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $80,000 in grants to FESTIVAL OF LIGHT INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FESTIVAL OF LIGHT INC?
- COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FESTIVAL OF LIGHT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 2 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