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LET IT SHINE INC

LET IT SHINE INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,545 to it, the largest being PAGE & OTTO MARX JR FOUNDATION ($15,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$68k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$31k
Net assets
$13k
3/5 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Let It Shine Inc does

Mission

hosting a fall festival celebrating the artistry, creativity, etc in Keene/Monadnock region through hosting a fall festival

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Provide pumpkins to 4000+ kids, build festival tower, host Keene Pumpkin Festival

    $59,039 spent
    79% of program spending
  2. Activities leading up to and supporting the Keene Pumpkin Festival - equipment purchases

    $15,765 spent
    21% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $74,804.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($26k) Expenses 100 ($26k) Net assets 100 ($2k)2018 Revenue 106 ($27k) Expenses 91 ($23k) Net assets 349 ($6k)2019 Revenue 92 ($24k) Expenses 101 ($26k) Net assets 174 ($3k)2020 Revenue 3 ($661) Expenses 6 ($2k) Net assets 114 ($2k)2025 Revenue 262 ($68k) Expenses 290 ($75k) Net assets 780 ($13k)
20172018201920202025
Revenue (262)Expenses (290)Net assets (780)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $16k to $6k (−65%).

$16k
$6k
$3k
$2k
$13k
20172018201920202025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of LET IT SHINE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$43
’17
$4k
’18
−$2k
’19
−$957
’20
−$7k
’25
14
months of
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.

2017201820192020
Listed55510
Joined·+2+0+9
No longer listed·204
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $7k → $5k.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 LET IT SHINE 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

LET IT SHINE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

51%
largest funder
97%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2023 89% — 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

LET IT SHINE INC draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside New Hampshire, across 4 states in all.

NH
NY
OH
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’23
New Hampshire out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LET IT SHINE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−11% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

65%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NH

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LET IT SHINE 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 LET IT SHINE INC?
LET IT SHINE INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,545 to it, the largest being PAGE & OTTO MARX JR FOUNDATION ($15,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LET IT SHINE INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $30,545 in grants to LET IT SHINE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LET IT SHINE INC?
PAGE & OTTO MARX JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LET IT SHINE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing