California · Nonprofit
LIGHT OF MORNING STAR FOUNDATION
LIGHT OF MORNING STAR FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $323 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($323). 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 FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $323
- Net assets
- $23M
What Light of Morning Star Foundation does
Mission
To establish an on-line Christian ministry, to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ on-line and through other media and to be the light and the salt in our community, our nation, and throughout the world in obedience to the command of Jesus Christ, to foster Christian education, Christian fellowship and charity, and to encourage growth in Christian stewardship.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The seminars and retreats aim to nature and train church leaders and believers alike to be well verse with the knowledge of the Scriptures. The primary vision of the organization is to train leaders and minsters to ground their teaching and preaching on solid understanding of the Scriptures.In the process of the operation of the organization, we publish and support other individual or organization for Christian spiritual life growth (Book, CD or DVD). We will also publish contents such as sermon, worship music, and video online. The organization will also form a musical team to rich the concerts of spiritual training.
$893,960 spentof which $1,207,025 as grants$9,222 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $893,960.
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 2021 to 2022, from $9.6M to $22M (+131%).
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.
73% of LIGHT OF MORNING STAR FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $37 → $82.
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 LIGHT OF MORNING STAR 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.
Where its funders are
100% of LIGHT OF MORNING STAR FOUNDATION'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. $323 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
LIGHT OF MORNING STAR FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,394 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LIGHT OF MORNING STAR 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIGHT OF MORNING STAR 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 LIGHT OF MORNING STAR FOUNDATION?
- LIGHT OF MORNING STAR FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $323 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($323). 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 LIGHT OF MORNING STAR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $323 in grants to LIGHT OF MORNING STAR FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIGHT OF MORNING STAR FOUNDATION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $323 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIGHT OF MORNING STAR FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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