SEND the Light

Analysis

SEND the Light is a registered charity in United States, based in Nashville, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, SEND the Light reported income of $156k and spending of $151k, spending 97% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $142k to $156k (+9.4%), an average of +9.4% a year. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, SEND the Light sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile, and in the 49th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tomlinson Touching Lives Foundation ($156k), Chester Volunteer Fire Department ($156k) and Clute Barrow Nelson Life Foundation Inc ($156k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $13k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $13k.