Minnesota · Nonprofit
LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $693k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $406k
What Lighthouse Christian Academy does
Mission
To educate and promote growth of oneself using a faith based cirriculum in a safe and secure environment
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Tuition and education registration fees in which is use to provide a biblical cirriculumn for education of youth in a private, small scale learning environment. The fees go toward the curriculum and maintaining staff and facilities.
$524,975 spent$496,366 earned by the program95% of program spendingAthletic programs for youth registered with the school as well as homeschooled youth. These fees cover costs related to equipment, supplies, and various other expenses.
$24,484 spent$14,812 earned by the program4% of program spendingScholarships paid out toward tuition for eligible students. Scholarships are determined via review of form filled out by parent/guardian of student, requesting reduced tuition based on the families financial needs.
$2,582 spent$4,521 earned by the program0% of program spendingYear book and t-shirt sales generate fundraising for various needs within the school including reduced tuition costs for students
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $552,041.
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 2023 to 2024, from $123k to $304k (+147%).
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.
25% of LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 CHRISTIAN ACADEMY’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 CHRISTIAN ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 CHRISTIAN ACADEMY.
“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
71% of LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY'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. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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
LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
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
93% 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 CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: 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 CHRISTIAN ACADEMY?
- LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $35,000 in grants to LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY.
- Who is the largest funder of LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY?
- THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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