Kansas · Nonprofit
Loud Light
Loud Light (Kansas) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,039,394 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING ($937,585). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Loud Light does
Mission
Loud Light is a civic participation organization that engages, educates, and empowers individuals from underrepresented populations, especially youth, to build community power that has an impact on decision makers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Loud Light works to build a better democracy by registering and turning out thousands of voters, producing accessible information through legislative recap and issue explainer videos, breaking down barriers to the ballot, building community power, and preparing the next generation of Kansans to be civic leaders.
$843,606 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $843,606.
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 2019 to 2020, from $62k to $550k (+787%).
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 Loud Light’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Rev Sarah Oglesby-Dunegan
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $8k → $1.1M.
10 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $59k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Loud Light Civic Action Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Loud Light raised.
From the IRS filings of Loud Light’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 funders by total. 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
Loud Light has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
84% 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 Loud Light.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 46% · 2021 30% · 2022 34% · 2023 44% — 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.
How long its funders stay
56% of Loud Light's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Loud Light draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Loud Light holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Loud Light
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 Loud Light: 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 Loud Light?
- Loud Light (Kansas) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,039,394 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING ($937,585). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Loud Light have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $4,039,394 in grants to Loud Light, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Loud Light?
- ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING is the largest funder on record, with $937,585 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Loud Light find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 25 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing