South Carolina · Nonprofit
FIRST LIGHT
FIRST LIGHT (South Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $911,007 to it, the largest being CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA ($265,064). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $911k
- Net assets
- $355k
What First Light does
Mission
Working in collaboration with community partners, the mission of First Light is to prevent sexual assault and child abuse and their families through collaboration, education, advocacy, and treatment services in anderson and oconee counties.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In the 2024-2025 fy, First Light served 1,650 primary and secondary survivors. The agency conducted 431 forensic interviews and 66 pediatric medical exams in conjunction with prisma health. First Light staff and volunteers provided 13,617 minutes of crisis intervention, answered 97 crisis calls, and accompanied 84 individuals to the emergency room. We referred 178 individuals for emotional and support services. Additionally, the agency provided 7 hotel stays and relocations and 40 instances of emergency financial assistance.
$1,015,086 spent$1,200 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,015,086.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $580k to $482k (−17%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 11% · 2020 78% · 2021 83% · 2022 86% · 2023 86% · 2024 85% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FIRST LIGHT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Chris Liles
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $103k → $112k.
3 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 FIRST 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
FIRST LIGHT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
74% 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 FIRST LIGHT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 70% · 2019 62% · 2020 40% · 2021 33% · 2022 27% · 2023 47% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of FIRST LIGHT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
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
69% of FIRST LIGHT's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
FIRST LIGHT's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FIRST 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% 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 FIRST 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 FIRST LIGHT?
- FIRST LIGHT (South Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $911,007 to it, the largest being CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA ($265,064). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRST LIGHT have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $911,007 in grants to FIRST LIGHT, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST LIGHT?
- CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA is the largest funder on record, with $265,064 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST LIGHT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 23 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