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.
Against its field
FESTIVAL OF LIGHT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 134 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 134 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Incshared fundersportfolio match
- The Escobar Charitable Foundationlocal
- Ad Astra Foundationportfolio match
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.
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
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 2 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Incshared fundersportfolio matchOK · backs 23 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Escobar Charitable FoundationlocalOK · funds 3 organizations near you
- Ad Astra Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McMahon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lawton Community Foundation Affiliated Fund of the Occf Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- M D Jirous and Barbara Jirous Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Osceola Convention and Visitors Bureau Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ssm Health Care of Oklahoma Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bowen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Crowe & Dunlevy Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Adena Health Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert Glenn Rapp Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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.
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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing