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MADE TO SHINE INC

MADE TO SHINE INC (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$456k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$200k
Net assets
$190k
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Made to Shine Inc does

Mission

Lightgliders seeks to help kids know, grow in, and show god's love during the critical preteen years through safe digital gameplay, virtual community, biblically-based content, imaginative storytelling, and resources for family discipleship.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Lightgliders is a christian kids brand. Its primary program is a virtual world of christian faith, games, and community available online and in the app stores. Its gameplay and weekly curriculum are accessed by thousands of kids and families each week.

    $277,314 spent$143,669 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $277,314.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($102k) Expenses 100 ($53) Net assets 100 ($102k)2024 Revenue 446 ($456k) Expenses 695013 ($368k) Net assets 186 ($190k)
20232024
Revenue (446)Expenses (695013)Net assets (186)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $127k to $199k (+57%).

$127k
$199k
20232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

68% of MADE TO SHINE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$102k
’23
$87k
’24
5.8
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MADE TO SHINE 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.

Where its funders are

100% of MADE TO SHINE 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MADE TO SHINE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Months of reserve5.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)346% · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like MADE TO SHINE 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 Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 25%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
67%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MADE TO SHINE 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 MADE TO SHINE INC?
MADE TO SHINE INC (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MADE TO SHINE INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $200,000 in grants to MADE TO SHINE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MADE TO SHINE INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MADE TO SHINE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2023–2024), 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. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing