Washington · Nonprofit
LIGHTHOUSE FINANCIAL FOUNDATION
LIGHTHOUSE FINANCIAL FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,150 to it, the largest being HARRY A MERLO FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $193k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Lighthouse Financial Foundation does
Mission
Save first financial wellness empowers individuals to achieve financial stability and meet their basic needs by providing financial education, coaching, and support to navigate financial challenges and build a stronger future.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To support financial education and counseling to low and moderate income individuals including understanding credit reports, credit restoration, and budgeting.
$590 spent$5,876 earned by the program0% of program spendingSave first provides financial literacy education on topics such as saving, budgeting, credit, and debt management. Additional workshops cover auto buying, homeownership, credit building, student loans, and financial planning. Services are offered in person and online. We also provide one-on-one financial coaching to help individuals assess their financial situation, set goals, and improve long-term outcomes. All services are designed to promote financial stability and self-sufficiency, with a focus on underserved populations.
$551,550 spentof which $119,000 as grants$198,302 earned by the program100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $552,140.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $1.0M to $2.3M (+126%).
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.
87% of LIGHTHOUSE FINANCIAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Brett Bryant
Chair
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 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 FINANCIAL FOUNDATION’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 FINANCIAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
35% 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 FINANCIAL FOUNDATION.
“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
LIGHTHOUSE FINANCIAL FOUNDATION draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 4 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k 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 FINANCIAL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LIGHTHOUSE FINANCIAL FOUNDATION
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIGHTHOUSE FINANCIAL FOUNDATION: 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 FINANCIAL FOUNDATION?
- LIGHTHOUSE FINANCIAL FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,150 to it, the largest being HARRY A MERLO FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIGHTHOUSE FINANCIAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $193,150 in grants to LIGHTHOUSE FINANCIAL FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIGHTHOUSE FINANCIAL FOUNDATION?
- HARRY A MERLO FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIGHTHOUSE FINANCIAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 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