Hawaii · Nonprofit
REDEEMING LIGHT INTERNATIONAL INC
REDEEMING LIGHT INTERNATIONAL INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($35,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $86k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $83k
- Net assets
- $46k
What Redeeming Light International Inc does
Mission
Mission statement: redeeming light seeks to manifest the love and compassion of jesus christ by providing safe environments for individuals, whether adult or child, to honestly face the damages of abuse and neglect and to be restored to wholeness thus doing our part in fulfilling the great commission as we understand it to be in matthew 28:18-20. Activities: the big island giving tree provides food, household items, and general support to the working homeless and the elderly residing on the big island of hawaii. Redeeming light provides counseling to individuals and sponsors seminars on the big island of hawaii.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The big island giving tree provided food and general household items to the working homeless and the elderly living on the big island of hawaii.
$57,233 spentof which $72,810 as grants81% of program spendingRedeeming light international provided pastoral counseling to individuals and to families.
$1,500 spent2% of program spendingRedeeming light support the homework lab which supplies tutoring to primary and secondary students who do not have help at home due to language barriors. Tuition is on a sliding scale. Expenses such as rent of the public school facilities, tutor salaries, supplies, and snacks are paid for thru grants and contributions. Redeeming light acts as a fiscal agent when needed.
$12,000 spentof which $12,000 as grants17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $70,733.
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 2024 to 2025, from $32k to $47k (+46%).
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.
99% of REDEEMING LIGHT INTERNATIONAL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% 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
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $21k → $5k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 REDEEMING LIGHT INTERNATIONAL 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.
How concentrated its funding is
REDEEMING LIGHT INTERNATIONAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 REDEEMING LIGHT INTERNATIONAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 52% · 2021 52% · 2022 57% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
56% of REDEEMING LIGHT INTERNATIONAL 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. Of the $36k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside Hawaii, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
REDEEMING LIGHT INTERNATIONAL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,360 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like REDEEMING LIGHT INTERNATIONAL 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 Hawaii
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 REDEEMING LIGHT INTERNATIONAL 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 REDEEMING LIGHT INTERNATIONAL INC?
- REDEEMING LIGHT INTERNATIONAL INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($35,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does REDEEMING LIGHT INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $82,500 in grants to REDEEMING LIGHT INTERNATIONAL INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REDEEMING LIGHT INTERNATIONAL INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $35,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REDEEMING LIGHT INTERNATIONAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. 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 5 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