California · Nonprofit
LIGHTWAVE EDUCATION
LIGHTWAVE EDUCATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,070 to it, the largest being THE VIRGINIA AND ALFRED HARRELL FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2017
- $26k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $740
What Lightwave Education does
Mission
The primary exempt purpose id the education of under-privileged children
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization supprts freeddom school where 15 children and their families participate in a 6-week summer literacy program, most families are low income or underserved. Children receive educational and nutritional services as well as mentoring and leadership development.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $23.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 LIGHTWAVE EDUCATION’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
LIGHTWAVE EDUCATION 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: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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 LIGHTWAVE EDUCATION's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70 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
LIGHTWAVE EDUCATION receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,573 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2017
Organizations like LIGHTWAVE EDUCATION
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
100%
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 LIGHTWAVE EDUCATION: 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 LIGHTWAVE EDUCATION?
- LIGHTWAVE EDUCATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,070 to it, the largest being THE VIRGINIA AND ALFRED HARRELL FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIGHTWAVE EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,070 in grants to LIGHTWAVE EDUCATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIGHTWAVE EDUCATION?
- THE VIRGINIA AND ALFRED HARRELL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIGHTWAVE EDUCATION 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 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