California · Nonprofit
CENTRAL COAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS
CENTRAL COAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,294 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($35,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $193k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $735k
What Central Coast Lighthouse Keepers does
Mission
Cclk's primary purpose is to promote public awareness, knowledge, and understanding of all maritime history of california's central coast and to restore and preserve point sur state historic park. The state park consists of the 19th century point sur light station and the cold war era former point sur naval facility.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cclk's largest program expense was for the preservation, restoration, and maintenance work on the 19th century buildings of point sur state historical park. Restoration work continued on the triplex that housed three keepers and their families. The work continued for the rebuild the porches on the west side of the building. Work began on the interior of the building that included the framing and installation of storm windows in the kitchen. Installed interior doors on the ground floor. The windows in the head keeper quarters were replaced and a new electrical system was installed at the former naval facility. Cclk continued its efforts to bring back the fresnel lens into the lantern room.
$55,664 spent$63,330 earned by the program61% of program spendingBeverage services, membership costs, credit card fees, curatorial expenses, memberships to other organizations, postage, sales tax, state park shares of admission fees, tax & fees - state, volunteer awards dinner expenses, volunteer recognition expense
$17,115 spent19% of program spendingCclk provides its members with a quarterly newsletter which provides educational information about the history of point sur state historical park. It communicates other information on happenings at the park such as the status of the restoration projects and upcoming events. The newsletter is also used to promote donations and recruit volunteers.
$11,663 spent13% of program spendingPark operations: covers the costs of general administration, security, wi-fi, rodent control, gitf shop, and office suppliers
$7,283 spent8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $91,725.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.5M to $735k (−51%).
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.
52% of CENTRAL COAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
John Oneil
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $12k → $27k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 CENTRAL COAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS’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
CENTRAL COAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 CENTRAL COAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 54% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 75% — growing more concentrated.
“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
65% of CENTRAL COAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS'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. Of the $20k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
CENTRAL COAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTRAL COAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTRAL COAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS: 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 CENTRAL COAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS?
- CENTRAL COAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,294 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($35,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CENTRAL COAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $55,294 in grants to CENTRAL COAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL COAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $35,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL COAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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