California · Nonprofit
LANTERNS GLOBAL INC
LANTERNS GLOBAL INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $223 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($223). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $380k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $223
- Net assets
- $-9086
What Lanterns Global Inc does
Mission
Lanterns Global Inc provides the following activities on a domestic and global basis. 1 create and provide educational enrichment programs in general educational studies languages sciences and other educational disciplines (continued on schedule o)to assist both children and adults go deeper in a field and be lifelong learners; 2 design and implement educational programs and skills based learning opportunities for at-risk children low-income and or marginalized individuals and other individuals and groups with economic physical spiritual and or emotional needs; and 3 develop and sustain hands-on educational and agricultural programs that promote teach and implement sustainable land use environmental and agricultural practices.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Carpinteria children's farm programcarpinteria children's farm provides educational enrichment programs in general education studies, languages, sciences, and other educational disciplines to assist both children and adults to grow deeper in a field and be lifelong learners, as well as develop and sustaining hands-on educational and agricultural programs that promote, teach, and implement sustainable land use environmental and agricultural practices. The carpinteria children's farm provided hands-on educational programs and summer camps. The four core programs included farm to table learning, el jardn (spanish immersion and gardening), tides (marine biology), and terrain (outdoor forest education), serving students through experiential, place-based learning.
$256,566 spent$353,739 earned by the program93% of program spendingIndonesia education and service programthe organization conducted international educational and service initiatives in indonesia, including providing free teacher training seminars for rural educators, facilitating educational outreach programs for local children, and supporting environmental stewardship efforts such as community recycling education and waste reduction projects. In partnership with local organizations, the program also included structured service-learning experiences in which u.s. College students traveled to indonesia to participate in supervised volunteer service, cross-cultural education, and community development activities. (continued on schedule o)these activities included assisting with village-based community improvement projects and hands-on service work, including physical labor in support of local needs. Participating students raised funds to support the costs associated with travel and program implementation. The program primarily served educators, students, and community members in indonesia while promoting global education, service, and cultural exchange.
$20,133 spent7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $276,699.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $11k to $28k (+152%).
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.
7% of LANTERNS GLOBAL INC’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. 1 of the last 3 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
Saul Moreno
Executive director/ CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $72 → $63.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LANTERNS GLOBAL INC’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.
Where its funders are
100% of LANTERNS GLOBAL INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $223 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LANTERNS GLOBAL INC has grown faster than three-quarters 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
Organizations like LANTERNS GLOBAL INC
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Freedom Cart LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LANTERNS GLOBAL INC: 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 LANTERNS GLOBAL INC?
- LANTERNS GLOBAL INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $223 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($223). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LANTERNS GLOBAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $223 in grants to LANTERNS GLOBAL INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LANTERNS GLOBAL INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $223 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LANTERNS GLOBAL INC 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.
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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 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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