New York · Nonprofit
Lighten Our Lives Inc
Lighten Our Lives Inc (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,500 to it, the largest being TL FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2017
- $66k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $101k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Lighten Our Lives Inc does
Mission
To promote the advancement of knowledge and provide incentives for education, including scholastic programs and tutorial opportunities; to provide aid for publications of learning materials and textbooks; to provide financial assistance to low income students, scholars, and special needs students; and to promote relationship building through social events.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $100k → $500.
From the IRS filings of Lighten Our Lives 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
Lighten Our Lives Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of Lighten Our Lives Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Lighten Our Lives Inc receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $101k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,318 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2017
Organizations like Lighten Our Lives 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 New York
Nationally
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lighten Our Lives 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 Lighten Our Lives Inc?
- Lighten Our Lives Inc (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,500 to it, the largest being TL FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lighten Our Lives Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $100,500 in grants to Lighten Our Lives Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Lighten Our Lives Inc?
- TL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lighten Our Lives Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 2 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