California · Nonprofit
Shine Your Light Attn Laurie Gardner
Shine Your Light Attn Laurie Gardner (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,531 to it, the largest being LIFERAY FOUNDATION ($1,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $58k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $5k
What Shine Your Light Attn Laurie Gardner does
Mission
SYL is an educational nonprofit supporting leadership development and personal growth. We offer coaching, training, and keynote speaking. Our philosophy is "FOR EACH ONE, REACH ONE": Using funds from donations and purchased services, we gift free (Cont. on Schedule O) SYL is an educational nonprofit supporting leadership development and personal growth. We offer coaching, training, and keynote speaking. Our philosophy is "FOR EACH ONE, REACH ONE": Using funds from donations and purchased services, we gift freeor discounted services to those who can't afford them. We passionately believe that everyone, rich or poor, deserves to be the best person and leader they can be.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
SUPPORTING SCHOOLS: Shine Your Light offers coaching, training, and personalized facilitated forums for educational leaders, teachers, parents, and students to learn easy, accessible, immediately effective intuitive wellness techniques to be in an optimal intellectual and emotional state of readiness to teach and learn.
$16,178 spent$14,125 earned by the program25% of program spendingTRUST YOUR GUT MASTER CLASSES: Shine Your Light's intensive online master classes offer multi-week, intensive training on how to trust your intuition to make quick, clear decisions, ease overwhelm, anxiety, and stress, and stay in your best, truest self. For each class, SYL offers several thousand dollars in scholarships to those who would like to learn the skills who otherwise couldn't afford to participate in the courses.
$16,178 spent$10,100 earned by the program25% of program spendingPERSONAL DEVELOPMENT COACHING & TRAINING: Shine Your Light offers personal development coaching and training to a diverse group of paying and nonpaying clients, including veterans, low income, and other underserved populations. Our personal growth coaching, training, and keynote presentations help people to live better lives in the four essential areas of work, relationships, health and home. In accordance with our "For each one, reach one" mission, we provided dozens of pro-bono hours and discounted personal development coaching & training services to those who otherwise couldn't afford it.SYL offers Lead Coach and Lead Mentor certification to those completing the Level 3 (advanced) Trust Your Gut master class. The certification program is a multi-month program where apprentices receive small group and individualized mentoring on how to become a Shine Your Light intuitive life coach and master class mentor. Certified Lead Coaches are eligible to coach SYL's clients as part-time contractors. Certified Lead Mentors are eligible to work as part-time contractors to guide master class students in applying the tools they are learning in class.In Addition to our ongoing 1-on-1 personal…
$16,399 spent$9,734 earned by the program25% of program spendingLEADERSHIP COACHING & TRAINING: Shine Your Light offers one-on-one leadership coaching to the founders, leaders, and top managers of organizations of all kinds, including nonprofits and small and solo start-ups. We also offer 100% customized team training, workshops, board facilitation, and keynotes tailored to each individual organization's budget, priorities, and needs. Frequently requested topics include managing burnout, developing doable strategic goals, sticky personnel issues, and work-life balance.
$16,235 spent$8,280 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $64,990.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $6k to $23k (+273%).
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: 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of Shine Your Light Attn Laurie Gardner’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Laurie Gardner
President/CEO
Board chair
Rebecca Margulies
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500 → $18.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Your Light Attn Laurie Gardner’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 Your Light Attn Laurie Gardner leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
100% of Shine Your Light Attn Laurie Gardner's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Your Light Attn Laurie Gardner has grown faster than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Shine Your Light Attn Laurie Gardner
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Shine Your Light Attn Laurie Gardner: 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 Your Light Attn Laurie Gardner?
- Shine Your Light Attn Laurie Gardner (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,531 to it, the largest being LIFERAY FOUNDATION ($1,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Shine Your Light Attn Laurie Gardner have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,531 in grants to Shine Your Light Attn Laurie Gardner, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Shine Your Light Attn Laurie Gardner?
- LIFERAY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Shine Your Light Attn Laurie Gardner 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.
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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 2019–2025), and the filings of 2 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