Florida · Nonprofit
LIGHT OF THE WORLD MINISTRIES INC
LIGHT OF THE WORLD MINISTRIES INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,063 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($32,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $115k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $72k
- Net assets
- $34k
What Light of the World Ministries Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to lead people into a growing relationship with jesus christ. We are missionaries taking the gospel to the nations by showing the love of jesus to those overlooked and pushed aside by society. God has given us the vision to train and equip believers to come together to serve the least of these as the body of christ, taking the name of jesus to the ends of the earth.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Light of the world ministries began reaching out to the homeless, poor, and needy in the jacksonville, fl area by being the hands and feet of jesus. Our hearts are to build relationships with those who have been overlooked and pushed aside by society, loving them like jesus by serving their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Light of the world partners with volunteers, organizations, and churches in the united states to get out into their communities to serve and love on the "least of these as stated in matthew 25:40. This opens up the door to share jesus with the lost and bring hope to the broken as we unite together as the body of christ. Light of the world also partners with the local church in poptn, guatemala to love and serve orphans, widows, and families in need. We are building a rescue center in poptn that will serve individuals and families through feeding programs, kids club, free english classes, mission teams, respite care for pastors and missionaries, medical care, and spiritual care through gospel centered ministry. Outreaches in 2022: -monthly mobile food distributions in jacksonville, florida in partnership with first fruits outreach and feeding ne fl.…
$97,409 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $97,409.
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 2017 to 2018, from $51k to $25k (−50%).
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 LIGHT OF THE WORLD MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $3k → $21k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 THE WORLD MINISTRIES 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
LIGHT OF THE WORLD MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 LIGHT OF THE WORLD MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 83% · 2022 58% · 2023 63% — 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
75% of LIGHT OF THE WORLD MINISTRIES INC'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. Of the $18k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LIGHT OF THE WORLD MINISTRIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,278 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,278 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like LIGHT OF THE WORLD MINISTRIES INC
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 LIGHT OF THE WORLD MINISTRIES 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 LIGHT OF THE WORLD MINISTRIES INC?
- LIGHT OF THE WORLD MINISTRIES INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,063 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($32,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIGHT OF THE WORLD MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $72,063 in grants to LIGHT OF THE WORLD MINISTRIES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIGHT OF THE WORLD MINISTRIES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $32,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIGHT OF THE WORLD MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), 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