California · Nonprofit
SHINE ON FKA SHINE ON SIERRA LEONE
SHINE ON FKA SHINE ON SIERRA LEONE (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $393,806 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($136,478). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $206k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $394k
- Net assets
- $58k
What Shine on Fka Shine on Sierra Leone does
Mission
To operate as a human service foundation and provide education, mentoring, nutritional support and creative curriculum to schools both nationally and internationally.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Rd sponsored students: shine on sierra leone's sponsorship program provides school supplies, lunch stipends, transportation, and school uniforms for 98 students who are graduates of muddy lotus primary school. It eliminates an 18-mile round trip walk for the students to and from school each day which increases enrollment in their respective schools.
$152,503 spent72% of program spendingAshley's clinic is a health care program within the muddy lotus primary school grounds that provides health care services to all muddy lotus primary school students, their parents, and school staff.
$12,765 spent6% of program spending63 brave supports the 63 orphans whose parents passed from the ebola crisis. This program provides education sponsorships, caregiver placement and support, food and water provisions, and access to a monthly community program/social services. This approach to meeting the needs of 63 orphans, other vulnerable children and 17 caregivers in kono, nimikoro chiefdom affected by the ebola virus provides for the children's educational needs, while ensuring they receive psychosocial support and appropriate in-home care from their caregivers.
Muddy lotus - education program structured to address the academic needs of 504 students in sierra leone west africa. Sosl, inc provides all learning materials and supplies as well as interior and exterior buildings and recreation centers.
$46,203 spent22% of program spendingThe nourish program offers a daily hot, nutritious lunch to both students and staff, ensuring they have access to healthy meals each school day. Run by two dedicated women, the program not only prepares and serves these meals but also partners with local farmers to source fresh, seasonal vegetables. Currently, the program provides nourishing meals to 250 students and 16 staff members, fostering a community of well-being and support.
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $211,471.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $137k to $61k (−56%).
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 SHINE ON FKA SHINE ON SIERRA LEONE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Tiffany Persons
Executive director/president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $1k → $86k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 ON FKA SHINE ON SIERRA LEONE’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
SHINE ON FKA SHINE ON SIERRA LEONE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 ON FKA SHINE ON SIERRA LEONE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 80% · 2020 47% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 47% — 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.
How long its funders stay
22% of SHINE ON FKA SHINE ON SIERRA LEONE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
53% of SHINE ON FKA SHINE ON SIERRA LEONE'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 $187k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $207k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 ON FKA SHINE ON SIERRA LEONE's revenue fell 40% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SHINE ON FKA SHINE ON SIERRA LEONE
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SHINE ON FKA SHINE ON SIERRA LEONE?
- SHINE ON FKA SHINE ON SIERRA LEONE (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $393,806 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($136,478). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SHINE ON FKA SHINE ON SIERRA LEONE have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $393,806 in grants to SHINE ON FKA SHINE ON SIERRA LEONE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHINE ON FKA SHINE ON SIERRA LEONE?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $136,478 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHINE ON FKA SHINE ON SIERRA LEONE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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