Missouri · Nonprofit
FIRSTLIGHT INC
FIRSTLIGHT INC (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $157,833 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($65,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $792k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $158k
- Net assets
- $933k
What Firstlight Inc does
Mission
Conduct support groups for men and women wrestling with unwanted same gender attraction and/or problems with pornography or unwanted sexual attractions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Firstlight hosts multiple support groups for those facing sexual brokenness. The men's ministry holds around 10 weekly groups for men's sexual recovery. The women's ministry hosts one weekly support group. The women's sexual recovery group hosts six weekly support groups for spouses affected by sexual addiction. The sexual minority ministry hosts a weekly community small group for sexual minorities and hosts a monthly parents group gathering that supports the families of sexual minorities. The short-term goal of these support groups is to seek healing for the participants' immediate needs. The long-term goal of these groups is to disciple the participants in their walk with christ.
$573,392 spent$197,261 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $573,392.
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 2022 to 2023, from $342k to $623k (+82%).
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.
72% of FIRSTLIGHT INC’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 9 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.
Chief executive
Sean Maney
Executive director
Board chair
Ray Swogger
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $51k → $29k.
4 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FIRSTLIGHT 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
FIRSTLIGHT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 FIRSTLIGHT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 57% · 2023 75% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of FIRSTLIGHT 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $158k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
FIRSTLIGHT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FIRSTLIGHT 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 FIRSTLIGHT 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 FIRSTLIGHT INC?
- FIRSTLIGHT INC (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $157,833 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($65,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FIRSTLIGHT INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $157,833 in grants to FIRSTLIGHT INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRSTLIGHT INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRSTLIGHT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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