Texas · Nonprofit
LANTERNS FOR LIGHT FOUNDATION
LANTERNS FOR LIGHT FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,296 to it, the largest being SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION ($41,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $87k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $74k
- Net assets
- $28k
What Lanterns for Light Foundation does
Mission
Eradicate poverty through education empowerment in rural parts of kenya. We raise funds and support school going students in rural part of kenya overcome challenges that would otherwise negatively impact their schooling and life. Our impact and involvement help the students stay in school and become productive members of the society. We also support pastors who then are able to spiritually guide the students and mentor them. The special needs in the community are also assisted by two schools that can house up to 150 students in the dormitories. We support two schools, bar odar special school for the intellectually challenged and sega school for the mute and deaf. Providing them with an environment that enhances their growth and helps them attain their full potential. Supporting girls with monthly sanitary pads which helps them stay in school during their menstrual cycles.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Opening of the sega digital community library to the public, installation of solar power to the library and bar odar special school for the deaf. Keeping the two institutions off grid and on green renewable energy. Installation of computers at the library.
$42,101 spentof which $42,101 as grants48% of program spendingProvided tuition assistance to students in high schools, colleges and universities. Assisted the college and university students with their monthly upkeep expenses too.
$29,287 spentof which $29,287 as grants33% of program spendingSupported pastors operating in the rural areas and in the second largest slum in kenya - kawangware. Organized and conducted and two-day training (conference) for pastors in three regions of kenya - nairobi, kiwari and sega. Supported a vocational bible study for students at fellowship church - nairbo. Supported an ill widow with housing assistance.
$12,362 spentof which $12,362 as grants14% of program spendingFeeding program for over 300 students at elim primary school located in kawangware slums and kiwari primary school located in rusinga island.
$3,882 spentof which $3,882 as grants4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $87,632.
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 2023 to 2024, from $21k to $32k (+54%).
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 LANTERNS FOR LIGHT FOUNDATION’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. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $31k → $500.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 LANTERNS FOR LIGHT FOUNDATION’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
LANTERNS FOR LIGHT FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
39% 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 LANTERNS FOR LIGHT FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 93% · 2021 90% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
93% of LANTERNS FOR LIGHT FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k 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
LANTERNS FOR LIGHT FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 1,894 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,894 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LANTERNS FOR LIGHT FOUNDATION
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
37%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LANTERNS FOR LIGHT FOUNDATION: 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 LANTERNS FOR LIGHT FOUNDATION?
- LANTERNS FOR LIGHT FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,296 to it, the largest being SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION ($41,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LANTERNS FOR LIGHT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $74,296 in grants to LANTERNS FOR LIGHT FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LANTERNS FOR LIGHT FOUNDATION?
- SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $41,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LANTERNS FOR LIGHT FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 5 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing