Wisconsin · Nonprofit
LIGHT THE HOAN INC
LIGHT THE HOAN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,750 to it, the largest being 170 FREEDOM MILWAUKEE 2024 HOST COMMITTEE INC ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $558k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $169k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Light the Hoan Inc does
Mission
Light the hoan, inc. Is a collective of local business and civic leaders who have joined forces to illuminate the daniel hoan memorial bridge. Light the hoan, inc. Programs include shine a light, intern challenge, code the hoan, and hoancoming.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization illuminates the hoan bridge in honor of various occasions, to support other nonprofit organizations, to highlight local businesses or events, or to raise awareness of causes.
$501,459 spent$298,500 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $501,459.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $514k to $2.6M (+416%).
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: 2023 3% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of LIGHT THE HOAN INC’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. 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
Erika Smith
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of LIGHT THE HOAN 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.
How concentrated its funding is
LIGHT THE HOAN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 THE HOAN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 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 THE HOAN INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 THE HOAN INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LIGHT THE HOAN 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIGHT THE HOAN 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 LIGHT THE HOAN INC?
- LIGHT THE HOAN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,750 to it, the largest being 170 FREEDOM MILWAUKEE 2024 HOST COMMITTEE INC ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIGHT THE HOAN INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $168,750 in grants to LIGHT THE HOAN INC.
- Who is the largest funder of LIGHT THE HOAN INC?
- 170 FREEDOM MILWAUKEE 2024 HOST COMMITTEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIGHT THE HOAN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 4 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