California · Nonprofit
Lighting for Literacy Inc
Lighting for Literacy Inc (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $32,198 to it, the largest being LOS GATOS MORNING ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($32,198). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $2k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $31k
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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 Lighting for Literacy Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of Lighting for Literacy Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
100% of Lighting for Literacy Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Against its field
Lighting for Literacy Inc's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,848 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like Lighting for Literacy 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 California
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Lighting for Literacy Inc?
- Lighting for Literacy Inc (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $32,198 to it, the largest being LOS GATOS MORNING ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($32,198). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lighting for Literacy Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $32,198 in grants to Lighting for Literacy Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lighting for Literacy Inc?
- LOS GATOS MORNING ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $32,198 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lighting for Literacy Inc 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 FY2022 (financials across 2021–2022), 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing