Illinois · Nonprofit
SafeLIGHT Foundation
SafeLIGHT Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,026 to it, the largest being AARP ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $131k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $75k
What SafeLIGHT Foundation does
Mission
The purpose of the SafeLIGHT Foundation includes, but is not limited to, promotion of safe driving behavior through charitable giving to traffic safety programs and to those people and organizations that support responsible driving. The Foundation achieves this purpose through its Teen Ambassador Program and Seniors Matter rideshare program, as well as ongoing efforts to expand safe driving education and awareness across all age groups.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Teen Ambassador Program is a full academic-year program that teaches teens the critical importance of safe driving behavior, while instilling values of commitment, accountability, and community responsibility. Ambassadors develop awareness campaigns, hold town hall meetings, and participate in peer-to-peer outreach within their school communities. In 2025, the SafeLIGHT Foundation partnered with 22 schools and awarded scholarships to 17 students who successfully completed the program. Since the program's inception, school partnerships have grown from 2 to 22, demonstrating the Foundation's continued growth and commitment to the program.
$70,444 spentof which $42,500 as grants91% of program spendingThe Seniors Matter Program promotes safe driving practices and accessible transportation options for senior citizens. The SafeLIGHT Foundation continued to subsidize transportation for seniors in its five partner communities during the reported year. All program resources were directed entirely to transportation subsidies, ensuring that funds went directly to serving seniors in need. While program activity was limited to transportation subsidies in 2025, the Foundation remains committed to serving the senior community and is exploring new approaches to promote senior driving safety in future years.
$7,179 spent9% of program spendingThe Community Outreach Program, as described in the Foundation's exemption application, continues to be in development and was not yet operational during the reported tax year.
$0 spent0% of program spendingThe Law Enforcement Cares Program, as described in the Foundation's exemption application, continues to be in development and was not yet operational during the reported tax year.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $77,623.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $123k to $85k (−31%).
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.
100% of SafeLIGHT Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Yvonne Davila
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $26.
From the IRS filings of SafeLIGHT Foundation’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
SafeLIGHT Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
67% 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 SafeLIGHT Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 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
SafeLIGHT Foundation draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SafeLIGHT Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
42%
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 SafeLIGHT Foundation: 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 SafeLIGHT Foundation?
- SafeLIGHT Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,026 to it, the largest being AARP ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SafeLIGHT Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $15,026 in grants to SafeLIGHT Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of SafeLIGHT Foundation?
- AARP is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SafeLIGHT Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2021–2025), 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