North Carolina · Nonprofit
SHINING LIGHT IN DARKNESS FOUN
SHINING LIGHT IN DARKNESS FOUN (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,553 to it, the largest being BAND TOGETHER ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $132k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $113k
- Net assets
- $74k
What Shining Light in Darkness Foun does
Mission
Shining Light in Darkness Foundation inc. Faithfully cares for suvivor of sexual assault domestic violence and human trafficking especially those in underserved communities providing trauma informed surv
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
C.R.I.S.I.S. Crisis Services 24/7 crisis intervention and response for
$210,418 spentof which $73,513 as grants75% of program spendingHealing and wellness program. trauma informed healing services and
$42,084 spent15% of program spendingCommunity education and prevention. outreach, awareness, and prvention
$28,055 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $280,557.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $51k to $82k (+62%).
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: 2025 150%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
192% of SHINING LIGHT IN DARKNESS FOUN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $23 → $38.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 SHINING LIGHT IN DARKNESS FOUN’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
SHINING LIGHT IN DARKNESS FOUN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 SHINING LIGHT IN DARKNESS FOUN.
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
82% of SHINING LIGHT IN DARKNESS FOUN's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
SHINING LIGHT IN DARKNESS FOUN's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SHINING LIGHT IN DARKNESS FOUN
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 SHINING LIGHT IN DARKNESS FOUN: 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 SHINING LIGHT IN DARKNESS FOUN?
- SHINING LIGHT IN DARKNESS FOUN (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,553 to it, the largest being BAND TOGETHER ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHINING LIGHT IN DARKNESS FOUN have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $112,553 in grants to SHINING LIGHT IN DARKNESS FOUN, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHINING LIGHT IN DARKNESS FOUN?
- BAND TOGETHER is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHINING LIGHT IN DARKNESS FOUN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 6 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