South Carolina · Nonprofit
Lighthouse for Life
Lighthouse for Life (South Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $489,828 to it, the largest being CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($223,606). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $747k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $490k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Lighthouse for Life does
Mission
Lighthouse for Life seeks to combat sex trafficking through education,restoration and empowerment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Restoration - helping restore victims of sex trafficking physically,mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
$249,601 spent49% of program spendingEmpowerment - working with both minor and adult victims of sex trafficking to provide services, support, guidance, and love. Equipping the victims with the skills needed to transform victims into survivors.
$212,647 spent42% of program spendingEducation - spreading awareness of sex trafficking to the community through civic organizations, schools, churches, and youth groups.
$30,485 spent6% of program spendingThe harbor - the organization provides administration services where potential clients can drop in, survivors can learn life skills, and gain resources to undergo the process of rehabilitation.
$10,872 spent2% of program spendingThe anchor - the organization provides a safe residence for domestic minor sex trafficking victims. The anchor is an apartment that is subleased by the organization for survivor victims to undergo the process of rehabilitation.
$2,950 spent1% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$117 spent0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $506,672.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $559k to $1.2M (+123%).
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: 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Lisa Kejr
CEO
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 broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $13k → $40k.
7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 for Life’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 for Life leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 for Life.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 39% · 2019 71% · 2020 54% · 2021 84% · 2022 59% · 2023 47% — 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
40% of Lighthouse for Life's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
89% of Lighthouse for Life'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 $53k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $437k 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.
Organizations like Lighthouse for Life
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lighthouse for Life: 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 for Life?
- Lighthouse for Life (South Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $489,828 to it, the largest being CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($223,606). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Lighthouse for Life have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $489,828 in grants to Lighthouse for Life, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lighthouse for Life?
- CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $223,606 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lighthouse for Life find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 13 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