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LIGHT OF HOPE EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY

LIGHT OF HOPE EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,305 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($42,305). 2 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 FY2024
$571k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$54k
Net assets
$610k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Light of Hope Evangelistic Ministry does

Mission

To evangelize prisoners in american and canadian prisons and to evangelize the gospel in other churches and communities

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To evangelize prisoners

    $234,065 spent
    82% of program spending
  2. To evangelize prisoners

    $51,362 spent
    18% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $285,427.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($239k) Expenses 100 ($237k) Net assets 100 ($160k)2018 Revenue 123 ($293k) Expenses 120 ($284k) Net assets 106 ($169k)2019 Revenue 143 ($341k) Expenses 122 ($289k) Net assets 139 ($221k)2020 Revenue 195 ($466k) Expenses 110 ($261k) Net assets 267 ($426k)2021 Revenue 179 ($429k) Expenses 128 ($303k) Net assets 346 ($552k)2022 Revenue 185 ($443k) Expenses 171 ($407k) Net assets 369 ($589k)2023 Revenue 194 ($465k) Expenses 180 ($427k) Net assets 392 ($626k)2024 Revenue 239 ($571k) Expenses 248 ($588k) Net assets 382 ($610k)
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Revenue (239)Expenses (248)Net assets (382)Peer revenue range

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 $564k to $864k (+53%).

$160k
$174k
$229k
$446k
$564k
$864k
$858k
$826k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of LIGHT OF HOPE EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,778 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’17
$9k
’18
$52k
’19
$205k
’20
$126k
’21
$36k
’22
$37k
’23
−$16k
’24
2.0
months of
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

Omar Stoltzfus

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed44444444
Joined·+0+0+0+0+1+1+0
No longer listed·0000110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $305 → $30k.

Funder
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'22
'23
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'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

2 of 2 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 LIGHT OF HOPE EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY’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

LIGHT OF HOPE EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% 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 LIGHT OF HOPE EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY.

78%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

100% of LIGHT OF HOPE EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY'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. $54k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LIGHT OF HOPE EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY has grown faster than half of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve2.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like LIGHT OF HOPE EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

49% of spending goes to programs.

Program 49%Management 39%Fundraising 12%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds LIGHT OF HOPE EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY?
LIGHT OF HOPE EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,305 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($42,305). 2 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 LIGHT OF HOPE EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $54,305 in grants to LIGHT OF HOPE EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIGHT OF HOPE EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $42,305 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIGHT OF HOPE EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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