Minnesota · Nonprofit
LIGHTHOUSE BEGINNINGS
LIGHTHOUSE BEGINNINGS (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($27,500). 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 FY2024
- $985k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $-450622
What Lighthouse Beginnings does
Mission
To provide continued support for those exploring recovery by honoring all pathways and meeting individuals where they are at.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Peer support: emotional, social and practical help given by people who have experienced similar challenges.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Peer recovery support - our peers are fully present with each individual in a way that validates and reinforces individual's abilities and strengths. We promote self- advocacy and support individuals in taking the lead in becoming experts at their own recovery. We value the mutuality of our peer-to-peer interactions and pride ourselves on the diversity of our cprs, pss, and cprs-fe staff.
$528,655 spent$315,082 earned by the program47% of program spendingPathway recovery / transitional homes: have supported about 27 females and 22 males with transitional housing. In our recovery homes we support diversity. We see each other's differences as unique and wonderful ways to learn more about the world. These homes help to develop a strong and supportive community geared towards recovery. In 2024 we had two women's home and three men's homes.
$314,293 spent$236,896 earned by the program28% of program spendingOpen arms drop-in day center for unsheltered: providing a stigma free and a supportive, sober, safe environment that will assist individuals with putting their life back together and provide the resources needed to do that. We believe in personal accountability, self-determination and providing individuals with the pro-social supports they need to become successful members of the community! We assist people with roadblocks to recovery; resources to provide services for assistance and individualized plans for success.
$273,089 spent$96,109 earned by the program24% of program spendingEmployee retention program: supported about 200+ people in 2024. Lighthouse assists employers to better equip new employees and how to retain them by providing support that they may not receive from a traditional hr department. With twice monthly on-site visits during mealtimes, lighthouse is a life-coach for employees providing professional resources for physical, emotional and professional health; addiction issues; financial management. Lighthouse staff helps individuals to set and achieve goals, improve time management and develop a healthy work-life balance.
$3,337 spent$3,203 earned by the program0% of program spendingInterventions: supported about 300+ people. Individuals and/or families are able to contact lighthouse if they are struggling with substance use. Lighthouse meets with those affected by the struggle and helps to create a plan; move toward either detox or treatment programs; and helps provide support during the process.
$80 earned by the program
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,119,374.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $32k to $236k (+626%).
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: 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of LIGHTHOUSE BEGINNINGS’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 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
Scott Adkisson
Interim executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
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 LIGHTHOUSE BEGINNINGS’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
LIGHTHOUSE BEGINNINGS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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 LIGHTHOUSE BEGINNINGS.
“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 LIGHTHOUSE BEGINNINGS'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. $44k 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
LIGHTHOUSE BEGINNINGS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LIGHTHOUSE BEGINNINGS
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% 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 LIGHTHOUSE BEGINNINGS: 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 LIGHTHOUSE BEGINNINGS?
- LIGHTHOUSE BEGINNINGS (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($27,500). 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 LIGHTHOUSE BEGINNINGS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $43,500 in grants to LIGHTHOUSE BEGINNINGS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIGHTHOUSE BEGINNINGS?
- COMMUNITYGIVING is the largest funder on record, with $27,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIGHTHOUSE BEGINNINGS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2022–2024), 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