Puerto Rico · Nonprofit
RAYITO DE ESPERANZA CORP
RAYITO DE ESPERANZA CORP (Puerto Rico) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,087 to it, the largest being Juntos y Unidos por Puerto Rico Inc ($40,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $211k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $347k
What Rayito de Esperanza Corp does
Mission
Provide medical program support services to children with cancer and survivors
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programa: rayito sobre ruedas (programa rayito on wheels): an important part of receiving good medical care is for children with cancer to attend all their medical appoints. With this purpose in mind, we devised the rayito sobre ruedas program to be able to provide children with cancer patients with the necessary transportation so they will not miss any of their medical appointments.
$13,780 spent$13,780 earned by the program30% of program spendingThe Rayito de Esperanza Foundation offers the ''Alexandra Centeno Sierra educational program'', wich currently benefits child cancer patients and survivors who, after overcoming the disease, need financial resources to defray the costs of their education. We provide what is necessary for children to have a quality education in order to contribute to their phisical, emotional, social and moral pment. Our purpose is to promote the acquisition of knowledge and skills that allow children and young people to be self-sufficient.among the aids that are included are: the payment of tuition, monthly payments, transportation, purchase of uniforms and school supplies.
$7,504 spent$7,504 earned by the program16% of program spendingPROGRAMA DE LA MANO CONTIGO (PROGRAM HAND TO HAND WITH YOU): Cancer treatments are long, aggressive and expensive. They require continuous visits to the hospital or health centers and extensive care at home. This can make it difficult for families to have access to what they need because they do not have sufficient financial resources. The main function of this program is to provide financial assistance to these families, these are, but are not limited to: efraying hospital expenses, medical consultations, medications, tests, surgeries, procedures, medical equipment, home health ices and fees for medical professionals. In addition, the mortgage or rent/house payment is paid, help with air transportation, food costs, household items(air conditioners, humifidiers, refrigerators, room sets, etc.), personal itema(diapers, creams, wet towels).
$13,144 spent$13,144 earned by the program29% of program spendingPROGRAM FOOD 4 LOVE:A good diet is an essential part for a child diagnosed with cancer, since both the disease and its treatment can affect the child's appetite, their tolerance to food and their body's ability to assimilate nutrients. Eating the right kinds of foods before, during, and after treatment can help a child feel better and stay stronger. Cancer and its treatment can also affect the way the body tolerates certain foods, as well as its ability to use the nutrients. Nutrients needed by those with childhood cancer vary for each child. The doctor, nurse, and registered dietitian can help you identify your child's nutrition goals and plan ways to help reach them. Eating well during cancer treatment can help: better tolerate treatment and related side effects, heal and recover quickly, have less risk of infection during treatment, have more strength and energy, maintain weight and allow the body to store nutrients, provide better capacity for normal growth and development, feel better and have a better quality of life (less irritability, better quality of sleep, and greater willingness to collaborate with the cancer team) Food for Love provides hospitalized child cancer…
$11,051 spent$11,051 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $45,479.
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 2021 to 2022, from $311k to $348k (+12%).
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.
0% of RAYITO DE ESPERANZA CORP’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% 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.
Chief executive
Liliana Aponte
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $41k → $35.
1 of 3 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 RAYITO DE ESPERANZA CORP’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
RAYITO DE ESPERANZA CORP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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
94% 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 RAYITO DE ESPERANZA CORP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 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
RAYITO DE ESPERANZA CORP draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Puerto Rico, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $87 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
RAYITO DE ESPERANZA CORP runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RAYITO DE ESPERANZA CORP
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 Puerto Rico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
25% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 RAYITO DE ESPERANZA CORP: 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 RAYITO DE ESPERANZA CORP?
- RAYITO DE ESPERANZA CORP (Puerto Rico) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,087 to it, the largest being Juntos y Unidos por Puerto Rico Inc ($40,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RAYITO DE ESPERANZA CORP have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $43,087 in grants to RAYITO DE ESPERANZA CORP, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RAYITO DE ESPERANZA CORP?
- Juntos y Unidos por Puerto Rico Inc is the largest funder on record, with $40,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAYITO DE ESPERANZA CORP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Puerto Rico. 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 3 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