New Hampshire · Nonprofit
LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES
LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES (New Hampshire) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $436,243 to it, the largest being MANCHESTER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ($167,945). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $808k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $436k
- Net assets
- $-164106
What Light of Life Ministries does
Mission
Provides a 9-12 month residential program designed to provide women impacted by sexual abuse and trauma with a safe, supportive environment in which to heal and recover
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Light House is a comprehensive 6 to 9 month residential program designed to provide women impacted by sexual abuse and trauma with a safe supportive environment in which to heal and recover. Lighthouse participants build confidence ans self-sufficency through holistic Christ-centered support, education and skill building as well as strong community connections with medical and mental health services.
$812,841 spentof which $53,500 as grants$808,248 earned by the program99% of program spendingAt the drop-in center , our goal is to build relationships and trust. Guests can engage in various creative activities, enjoy coffee and a snack, access personal care and other needed items, participate in support and mentoring programs and receive help in connecting to available area services and resources.
$10,782 spent1% of program spendingA team of trained volunteers reaches out to those who are vulnerable to exploitation through setting up tables in a local park and walking through the neighborhood, meeting people where they are. We seek to make connections and build relationships through providing drinks and snacks and offering prayer and encouragement, as well as gift bags filled with personal care items, to at-risk women and youth.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $823,623.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $21k to $550k (+2471%).
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: 2022 26% · 2023 29% · 2024 75% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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
Joshua Wise
Chairman of Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $1k → $68k.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 LIFE MINISTRIES’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 LIFE MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 LIFE MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 48% · 2022 40% · 2023 37% — 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.
How long its funders stay
57% of LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
60% of LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES's grant income comes from New Hampshire funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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
LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES
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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: 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 LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES?
- LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES (New Hampshire) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $436,243 to it, the largest being MANCHESTER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ($167,945). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $436,243 in grants to LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES?
- MANCHESTER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $167,945 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 16 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