Alabama · Nonprofit
THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION
THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION (Alabama) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $701,593 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($92,285). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION is better cushioned than half of the 12,796 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,796 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Southwest Alabama Incshared funderslocal
- Scholarships for Kids Incportfolio match
- Oldham Little Church Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $46k → $78k.
5 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 30 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
THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
31% 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 OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 26% · 2019 21% · 2020 22% · 2021 18% · 2022 23% · 2023 19% — 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
53% of THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
79% of THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $184k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 30 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Southwest Alabama Incshared funderslocalAL · backs 20 organizations that share your funders · funds 41 organizations near you
- Scholarships for Kids Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oldham Little Church Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stephens' Christian Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cord Groupportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Education Freedom Alabamaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- D Gaines Lanier Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Homer Skelton Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Golden Dome Scholarship Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lamberth Foundation of Mississippiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ernest G Debakey Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalAL · backs 21 organizations that share your funders · funds 16 organizations near you
- Holy Name of Jesus Hospital Trustshared fundersAL · backs 11 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION: 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 THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION?
- THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION (Alabama) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $701,593 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($92,285). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $701,593 in grants to THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $92,285 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 30funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing