Nevada · Nonprofit
SHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION
SHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION (Nevada) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $989,712 to it, the largest being THE DARREN WALLER FOUNDATION INC ($268,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $990k
- Net assets
- $420k
What Shine a Light Foundation does
Mission
Shine a Light Foundation (the foundation) is a domestic non-profit corporation providing homeless outreach and placement services that help hundreds of homeless men, women, and children in the greater las vegas area. Our primary focus is individuals who live in the underground flood channels of las vegas. The program prides itself on going into the depths of the storm-drain system and engaging this underserved, hidden population on a personal level.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Shine a light offers instant placement with access to treatment and housing (ipath) to all clients that we come into contact with or that reach out for help. We have partnered with our local safety net providers to ensure that they are able to receive help the moment they ask for it. True to our roots, we also dole out much-needed supplies, including bottled water, food, socks, flashlights, headlamps and aa and aaa batteries. We are committed to ensuring that the continuity of support doesn't stop once placement is obtained. Our comprehensive case management program is designed to walk each client who chooses to participate through two years of services, from the point of contact through all individual stages of the re-entry process. The goal is to ensure that there is no reason to ever feel like anyone has to recidivate back to their previous situation.
$1,251,218 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,251,218.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $221k to $818k (+271%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 1% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of SHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $366k → $126k.
10 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 SHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 funders by total. 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
SHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
79% 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 SHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 49% · 2023 32% — 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
SHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Nevada, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $367k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
SHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION
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 Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHINE A LIGHT 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 SHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION?
- SHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION (Nevada) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $989,712 to it, the largest being THE DARREN WALLER FOUNDATION INC ($268,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $989,712 in grants to SHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION?
- THE DARREN WALLER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $268,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 25 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing