Illinois · Nonprofit
THE LIGHT AND LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE
THE LIGHT AND LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,265 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($16,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2018
- $103k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $37k
- Net assets
- $63k
What The Light and Leadership Initiative does
Mission
The organization empowers our participants through education and to form leaders in the huaycan community. We beleive the lasting changes will come to huaycan through quality education. Most residents live below the poverty line and have little access to quality education. Lli offers educational programs to support both woment and children in their struggle out of poverty. We now servie over 150 students weekly in huaycan impacting their education for a brighter future.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $105k to $64k (−39%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $14k.
4 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 THE LIGHT AND LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE’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
THE LIGHT AND LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 THE LIGHT AND LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 95% · 2022 97% · 2023 55% — 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
100% of THE LIGHT AND LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like THE LIGHT AND LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LIGHT AND LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE?
- THE LIGHT AND LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,265 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($16,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE LIGHT AND LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $37,265 in grants to THE LIGHT AND LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LIGHT AND LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LIGHT AND LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 4 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