Mississippi · Nonprofit
GENESIS AND LIGHT CENTER
GENESIS AND LIGHT CENTER (Mississippi) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,166 to it, the largest being CENTERPOINT ENERGY FOUNDATION INC ($16,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $445k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Genesis and Light Center does
Mission
To assist youth in developing positive self esteem and moral values while encouraging academic excellence. Our goals are to empower communities by promoting 1.academic excellence. 2. Substance free lifestyles 3.providing them an aternative to crime
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Genesis and lights adult daycare services were offered four to eight hours a day. Monday thru friday, to 10 to 15 a strong support system that helped them to maintain the highest quality of life. We provided a range of geriatric day services, which include social, nutritional, therapeutic, and educational activities to low incomes senior citizens.
$196,042 spent52% of program spendingGenesis and lights individualized one-on-one and small group tutorial sessions along with arts crafts activities were offered to kids ages 5 to 15. Our agencys performance records indicate that 75 disadvantaged youth whose public schools were closed because of the covid-19 pandemic. Participants in our programs demonstrated greater interest in learning, staying in school, a reduction in disciplinary problems at home, and moving toward productive careers. Our services include during school virtual learning, afterschool tutoring,mentoring, counseling, educational assistance, arts and crafts, drama and dance nad extracurricular/enrichment activities.
$125,200 spent33% of program spendingG&ls summer camp 2022 offered over 70 participants educational and recreational activities designed to keep children engaged, encouraged and inspired. During our 10 week camp, the children participated in educational, enrichment, and recreational activities, such as swimming, basketball, volleyball, kickball, hula hoop competitions, sack races, computer games, movies, foosball, air hockey, board games, arts & craft projects, an escape room, educational activities which incorporate steam (science, technology, engineering,arts, and math), and inspired by several guest speakers.
$57,980 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $379,222.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+41%).
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: 2021 2% · 2022 3% · 2023 7% · 2024 7% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of GENESIS AND LIGHT CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% 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.
Chief executive
Albert Wilson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $7k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 GENESIS AND LIGHT CENTER’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
GENESIS AND LIGHT CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 GENESIS AND LIGHT CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 65% · 2022 100% · 2023 79% — 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.
Where its funders are
GENESIS AND LIGHT CENTER draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k 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
GENESIS AND LIGHT CENTER has grown faster than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding GENESIS AND LIGHT CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $90k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$90k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GENESIS AND LIGHT CENTER
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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 GENESIS AND LIGHT CENTER: 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 GENESIS AND LIGHT CENTER?
- GENESIS AND LIGHT CENTER (Mississippi) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,166 to it, the largest being CENTERPOINT ENERGY FOUNDATION INC ($16,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GENESIS AND LIGHT CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $36,166 in grants to GENESIS AND LIGHT CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GENESIS AND LIGHT CENTER?
- CENTERPOINT ENERGY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $16,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GENESIS AND LIGHT CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 6 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