Oregon · Nonprofit
MAKE IT LIGHT
MAKE IT LIGHT (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,730 to it, the largest being JOSEPH P TENNANT CHARITABLE FUND ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $57k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $92k
What Make It Light does
Mission
We provide the highest possible quality of life to physically mentally emotionally or medically disabled children and adults for their entire lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
this program houses 8 people with disability include two people with medical fragility.
$41,315 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $41,315.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $977k to $76k (−92%).
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.
5% of MAKE IT LIGHT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (52% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $101 → $40.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 MAKE IT LIGHT’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
MAKE IT LIGHT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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: 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 MAKE IT LIGHT's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $230 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
MAKE IT LIGHT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,318 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,318 housing & shelter nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding MAKE IT LIGHT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $23k on record.
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$23k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MAKE IT 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 Oregon
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAKE IT 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MAKE IT LIGHT?
- MAKE IT LIGHT (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,730 to it, the largest being JOSEPH P TENNANT CHARITABLE FUND ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAKE IT LIGHT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,730 in grants to MAKE IT LIGHT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAKE IT LIGHT?
- JOSEPH P TENNANT CHARITABLE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAKE IT LIGHT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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