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Lighthouse Productions Inc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$34k
Granted FY2020
10
Grants FY2020
10
Organizations funded FY2020
10%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$1,700
Largest grant, FY2020
$13,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 15
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
4
Total assets, FY2020
$36k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 10% of the organizations Lighthouse Productions Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $609 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20
Youth DevelopmentReligionPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202010$34k10%
FY201912$37k25%
FY201815$34k33%
FY201711$30kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Religion$77kEducation$25kHuman Services$20kCrime & Legal$4kHealth$2kInternational$2kPhilanthropy$1kYouth Development$500Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Lighthouse Productions Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
G 3 Ministries Inc$51,500417%
Transitions of Dyer County$12,0004n/a
Fresh Brewed Ministries Inc dba Fresh Brewed Coffee House$5,3513n/a
Family Justice Center of Georgetown and Horry Counties$4,00020%
Worship in Action$2,70022%
Students in the Word Inc$2,0003n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$2,00040%
Surfside Presbyterian Church$1,0001n/a
National Christian Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
Child Evangelism Fellowship of Sc Inc$60910%
Camp Soulgrow Inc$50011%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($53k), not named here.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Lighthouse Productions Inc

How much does Lighthouse Productions Inc give?
Lighthouse Productions Inc reported 10 grants totaling $33,929 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Lighthouse Productions Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Religion (57%), Education (18%), Human Services (15%).
Who are Lighthouse Productions Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: G 3 Ministries Inc ($52k), Transitions of Dyer County ($12k), Fresh Brewed Ministries Inc dba Fresh Brewed Coffee House ($5k).
Does Lighthouse Productions Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lighthouse Productions Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lighthouse Productions Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Lighthouse Productions Inc based?
Lighthouse Productions Inc is based in SC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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