California · Nonprofit
GLOBAL LIGHTING PROJECT
GLOBAL LIGHTING PROJECT (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 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 FY2020
- $24k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Global Lighting Project does
Mission
The nonprofit and independent Global Lighting Project assists in providing sustainable lighting by receiving, investing, and allocating public, corporate, and foundation financial support to finance programs and projects designed to benefit the communities with impoverished populations with no access to electricity and therefore, lighting.The Global Lighting Project is committed to conducting its fundraising in an ethical manner that enhances a positive sense of international community, fosters collaboration among all like-minded organizations, and increases awareness of the need for private funds for providing underserved communities with sustainable lighting. Global Lighting Project is committed to continuing research and development for future LED products that will disinfect water, allow vegetation to grow and provide a safer environment
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $5k to $21k (+332%).
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.
100% of GLOBAL LIGHTING PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $15k.
1 of 1 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 GLOBAL LIGHTING PROJECT’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.
Where its funders are
100% of GLOBAL LIGHTING PROJECT'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. $30k 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
GLOBAL LIGHTING PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,082 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,082 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Organizations like GLOBAL LIGHTING PROJECT
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
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 GLOBAL LIGHTING PROJECT: 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 GLOBAL LIGHTING PROJECT?
- GLOBAL LIGHTING PROJECT (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 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 GLOBAL LIGHTING PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $30,000 in grants to GLOBAL LIGHTING PROJECT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL LIGHTING PROJECT?
- THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION 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 GLOBAL LIGHTING PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 1 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