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Lighthouse Productions Inc at a glance

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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
4
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% 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
02FY2020 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k9 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$1,700
Median grant
4
States reached
$36k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
G3 MINISTRIES OF PAWLEYS ISLAND$13,000
CAMPUS OUTREACH$7,120
NEW REFUGE TABERNACLE CHURCH$6,254
TRANSITIONS OF DYER COUNTY$3,250
WORSHIP IN ACTION$1,700
CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP$609
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL$500
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$500
Individual grant recipient$500
THE FATHER'S HOUSE$496
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PLAYING FOR CHANGE: $2k → 14%SURFSIDE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1k → 13%G3 MINISTRIES OF PAWLEYS ISLAND: $14k → 15%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $500 → 17%WORSHIP IN ACTION: $2k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $500 → 17%NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%CAMP SOULGROW: $500 → 12%PLAYING FOR CHANGE: $500 → 14%FRESH BREWED MINISTRIES: $2k → 13%G3 MINISTRIES OF PAWLEYS ISLAND: $13k → 15%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $500 → 17%WORSHIP IN ACTION: $1k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $500 → 17%PLAYING FOR CHANGE: $500 → 14%FRESH BREWED MINISTRIES: $2k → 13%G3 MINISTRIES OF PAWLEYS ISLAND: $13k → 15%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $500 → 17%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $500 → 17%PLAYING FOR CHANGE: $500 → 14%FRESH BREWED MINISTRIES: $2k → 13%G3 MINISTRIES OF PAWLEYS ISLAND: $12k → 15%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $500 → 17%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $500 → 17%ALL SAINTS CHURCH SCHOOL: $7k → 15%NEW REFUGE TABERNACLE CHURCH: $6k → 15%NEW REFUGE TABERNACKLE CHURCH: $6k → 15%NEW REFUGE TABERNACLE CHURCH: $5k → 15%NEW REFUGE TABERNACKLE CHURCH: $4k → 15%ALL SAINTS CHURCH SCHOOL: $3k → 15%THE FATHER'S HOUSE: $2k → 15%STUDENTS IN THE WORLD: $1k → 15%THE FATHER'S HOUSE: $650 → 15%STUDENTS IN THE WORLD: $500 → 15%THE FATHER'S HOUSE: $496 → 15%TENDER HEART FAMILY CHILDCARE: $327 → 15%STUDENTS IN THE WORLD: $250 → 15%GLOBAL SOCCER MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $250 → 15%THE FATHER'S HOUSE: $200 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$132k · 14 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
5

Total granted

$132k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+145%
+10158%

Still filing today

50%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
ReligionYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • G3
    G 3 MINISTRIES INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $52k · revenue +17%
  • TO
    TRANSITIONS OF DYER COUNTY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $12k · revenue +57%
  • FB
    Fresh Brewed Ministries Inc dba Fresh Brewed Coffee House
    3× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +283%

Funded once

  • SP
    SURFSIDE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • NC
    NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue ×103
  • CS
    CAMP SOULGROW INC
    one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue -17%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Global Gospel Initiative Inc
Religion
2
Seeds Sowers of Faith Christia

Church of god walk by faith

Religion
3
House of Refuge Faith Based
Human Services
4
South Georgia Potter's House for Women Inc

Our mission is to help women find freedom, healing and wholeness through an intimate relationship with jesus christ, allowing god to order what has been disordered.

Human Services
5
Grace of Deliverance Inc

Chruch

Religion
6
The Word of God International Ministries Inc

A place of religious worship.

Religion
7
Grace Community International

Grace community exists to glorify jesus christ through biblically-based teaching designed to win the world for christ through heads of households, disciple the world through families, equip christian families to live the christian life…

Housing & Shelter
8
Joy of Living Ministries Inc

Joy of living is an interdenominational christian camp whose purpose is to use god's word and his creation to introduce an unbelieving world to jesus christ, and to provide believers with opportunities for growth and renewal.

Religion
9
Christ Life Ministries

Christ Life Ministries' vision is transforming lives for Christ through the preaching of the gospel and discipleship.

Religion
10
Spirit Invasion Ministries

Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
11
Word of Deliverance Fellowship Ministries Inc

Church

Religion
12
Faith Speaks World Outreach

World outreach

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Justice Center of Georgetown and Horry Counties; the most unlike its peers is Transitions of Dyer County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

G 3 MINISTRIES INC: $51,500 · ReligionG 3 MINISTRIES INCFresh Brewed Ministries Inc dba Fresh Brewed Coffee House: $5,351 · ReligionFresh Brewed Ministries Inc dba Fresh Brewed Coffee…WORSHIP IN ACTION: $2,700 · Religion+1 more: $2,000 · ReligionCAMPUS OUTREACH: $13,420 · OtherCAMPUS OUTREACHNEW REFUGE TABERNACLE CHURCH: $11,333 · OtherNEW REFUGE TABERNACLE CHURCHNEW REFUGE TABERNACKLE CHURCH: $9,910 · OtherNEW REFUGE TABERNACKLE CHURCHALL SAINTS CHURCH SCHOOL: $9,625 · OtherALL SAINTS CHURCH SCHOOLTHE FATHER'S HOUSE: $3,087 · OtherTHE FATHER'S HOUSEIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $2,000 · Other+3 more: $1,577 · OtherTRANSITIONS OF DYER COUNTY: $12,000 · Crime & LegalTRANSITION…FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF GEORGETOWN AND HORRY COUNTIES: $4,000 · Human ServicesST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 · HealthCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF SC INC: $609 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP SOULGROW INC: $500 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Religion$61,551Other$53,952Crime & Legal$12,000Human Services$4,000Health$2,000Youth Development$1,109Philanthropy$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetG 3 MINISTRIES INC: $51,500 over 4y, 17% of budgetFAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF GEORGETOWN AND HORRY COUNTIES: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWORSHIP IN ACTION: $2,700 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF SC INC: $609 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP SOULGROW INC: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds G 3 MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds TRANSITIONS OF DYER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Fresh Brewed Ministries Inc dba Fresh Brewed Coffee House ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF GEORGETOWN AND HORRY COUNTIES ↗
  • Who funds WORSHIP IN ACTION ↗
  • Who funds Students in the Word Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF SC INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP SOULGROW INC ↗

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lighthouse Productions Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lighthouse Productions Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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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