Texas · Nonprofit
RAYS OF LIGHT WHERE SPECIAL CHILDREN SHINE
RAYS OF LIGHT WHERE SPECIAL CHILDREN SHINE (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $255,926 to it, the largest being Communities Foundation of Texas Inc ($104,920). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Crystal Charity Balllocalportfolio match
- Elizabeth Toon Charitieslocalportfolio match
- Hillcrest Foundationlocalportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $26k → $19k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 RAYS OF LIGHT WHERE SPECIAL CHILDREN SHINE’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
RAYS OF LIGHT WHERE SPECIAL CHILDREN SHINE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 RAYS OF LIGHT WHERE SPECIAL CHILDREN SHINE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 37% · 2019 28% · 2020 46% · 2021 36% · 2022 82% · 2023 52% — 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.
Where its funders are
81% of RAYS OF LIGHT WHERE SPECIAL CHILDREN SHINE's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Crystal Charity Balllocalportfolio matchTX · funds 46 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Elizabeth Toon Charitieslocalportfolio matchTX · funds 67 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Hillcrest Foundationlocalportfolio matchTX · funds 220 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Capital for Kidslocalportfolio matchTX · funds 69 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchTX · funds 111 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- W P & Bulah Luse Foundationlocalportfolio matchTX · funds 163 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 97 organizations that share your funders
- The Lunsford Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- The Rees-Jones Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like RAYS OF LIGHT WHERE SPECIAL CHILDREN SHINE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Lovers Lane United Methodist Church · exempt
- Lovers Lane Umc Foundation · exempt
- Seeds · exempt
- Twelfth Step Ministry Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RAYS OF LIGHT WHERE SPECIAL CHILDREN SHINE: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds RAYS OF LIGHT WHERE SPECIAL CHILDREN SHINE?
- RAYS OF LIGHT WHERE SPECIAL CHILDREN SHINE (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $255,926 to it, the largest being Communities Foundation of Texas Inc ($104,920). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RAYS OF LIGHT WHERE SPECIAL CHILDREN SHINE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $255,926 in grants to RAYS OF LIGHT WHERE SPECIAL CHILDREN SHINE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RAYS OF LIGHT WHERE SPECIAL CHILDREN SHINE?
- Communities Foundation of Texas Inc is the largest funder on record, with $104,920 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAYS OF LIGHT WHERE SPECIAL CHILDREN SHINE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing