California · Nonprofit
LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,361,672 to it, the largest being T GARY AND KATHLEEN ROGERS SUPPORTING FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,424,180). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $43M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Lighthouse Community Public Schools does
Mission
To prepare a diverse student population for college or a career of their choice by equipping each child with the knowledge, skills, and principles to be a self-motivated, lifelong learner.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
At Lighthouse Community Public Schools we are engaged in an educational movement that goes beyond our classrooms working to disrupt inequities by providing our students and families exceptional educational opportunities every day. Grounded in our core values of community, integrity, agency, love, and social justice rooted in the expeditionary learning education model, lcps is a leader in fostering innovative schools achieving exceptional student outcomes where each child is at the center of their own learning. Our mission is to prepare diverse students for college, a career of their choice, and to be lifelong changemakers. Founded in 2002, lcps operates three high-achieving public charter schools--lighthouse and lodestar--serving approximately 1,400 students in east oakland.
$38,331,049 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $38,331,049.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $15M to $102M (+588%).
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: 2017 81% · 2018 81% · 2019 83% · 2020 85% · 2021 91% · 2022 94% · 2023 92% · 2024 92% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Rich Harrison
CEO
Board chair
Robert Torney
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 10 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $357k → $196k.
11 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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 COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
82% 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 COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 48% · 2019 63% · 2020 48% · 2021 30% · 2022 30% · 2023 51% — 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
44% of LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
91% of LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Lodestar Facilities LLC · disregarded
- Lighthouse Facilities LLC · disregarded
- Lighthouse Support Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: 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 COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
- LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,361,672 to it, the largest being T GARY AND KATHLEEN ROGERS SUPPORTING FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,424,180). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $6,361,672 in grants to LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
- T GARY AND KATHLEEN ROGERS SUPPORTING FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,424,180 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 32 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