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Light Brigade

Light Brigade (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $14,000 to it, the largest being CLIFFORD & BRADFORD ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ($14,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$35k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$14k
Net assets
$55k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Light Brigade does

Mission

Supported various Kern County youth baseball programs through sponsorships and donations and equipment and supplies.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Supported various Kern County youth baseball programs through sponsorships and donations and equipment and supplies.

    $17,981 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $17,981.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($39k) Expenses 100 ($38k) Net assets 100 ($13k)2018 Revenue 73 ($29k) Expenses 69 ($26k) Net assets 120 ($15k)2022 Revenue 107 ($42k) Expenses 78 ($30k) Net assets 300 ($38k)2024 Revenue 68 ($27k) Expenses 86 ($33k) Net assets 301 ($38k)2025 Revenue 51 ($20k) Expenses 54 ($21k) Net assets 295 ($37k)2026 Revenue 90 ($35k) Expenses 47 ($18k) Net assets 431 ($55k)
201720182022202420252026
Revenue (90)Expenses (47)Net assets (431)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2025 to 2026, from $37k to $55k (+46%).

$13k
$15k
$38k
$38k
$37k
$55k
201720182022202420252026
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
2022
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$1k
’17
$2k
’18
$12k
’22
−$6k
’24
−$698
’25
$17k
’26
6.9
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.

201720182026
Listed331
Joined·+0·
No longer listed·0·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $3k.

Funder
'17
'18
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of Light Brigade’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 Light Brigade's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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

’17
’18
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like Light Brigade

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

05Profile & governance

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

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Light Brigade: 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 Light Brigade?
Light Brigade (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $14,000 to it, the largest being CLIFFORD & BRADFORD ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ($14,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Light Brigade have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $14,000 in grants to Light Brigade, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Light Brigade?
CLIFFORD & BRADFORD ATHLETIC FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $14,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Light Brigade 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing