Florida · Nonprofit
LIGHTHOUSE GOSPEL MISSION
LIGHTHOUSE GOSPEL MISSION (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,551 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ($30,000). 4 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 FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $84k
- Net assets
- $990k
What Lighthouse Gospel Mission does
Mission
Through the love of jesus, the lighthouse serves the hurting, hungry and addicted in our community. This is accomplished through 5 programs: 1)operation hope - a hunger relief program which transports, stores and packages food to the needy. This is done directly through a network of local partners with food pantries in the community. 2) faith home - a residential recovery program for men & women suffering from life controlling problems. 3)lighthouse thrift store - provides the community with affordable pricing on gently used goods, clothing and furniture. The proceeds benenfit other programs, especially the faith home. 4)lighthouse freedom center-a local church originally founded for the graduates of the faith home. A church that is meeting the spiritual needs of the community through classes, worship and services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Lighthouse Gospel Mission through operation hope, we distributed 833,312 in food impacting approximately 7,338 families. Additionally, lgm partnered with 15 ministries to distribute food in the local communities. The lighthouse remnant thrift store assists the community by making used goods, clothing and furniture available at affordable prices. Proceeds support the Lighthouse Gospel Mission, faith home ministry and operation hope. Additionally, the taste of freedom food truck provides revenue to support these programs and cover some of these expenses.
$1,420,840 spent79% of program spendingFaith home ministries in 2024, approximately 39 men and women resided on grounds in our residential treatment program. There were 520 volunteer chapel speakers in throughout the year to minister to the faith home. Throughout the year. 12 individuals successfully completed the 18 month discipleship training program. These graduates have experienced complete restoration of their lives, restoration to their families, many resuming their roles as mothers and fathers to their children, and have experienced restoration to society through the intimate relationship with jesus they developed in the faith home program.
$101,781 spent6% of program spendingLighthouse freedom center church over the course of 2024, lfc shepherded and tended to the spiritual needs of 1,340 individuals monthly thorugh 2 weekly services. Additionally, over the course of the year in our weekly church services we led approximately 54 individuals to christ for the transformation and restoration of their lives, families and communities. We performed baptisms, baby dedications and conducted new members' classes. Additionally, we served our community by performing 5 marriage ceremonies preceded by premarital counseling with licensed and ordained ministers. We had 4 fellowship meetings through our women's group with 50-75 attendees at each and 4 meetings through our men's group. We also sent out 12 evangelism teams throughout the year. Additionally, we supported other minitries, outreaches, and individuals in various ways. All these actions focused on sharing the gospel of jesus christ and were successful in doing so.
$279,200 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,801,821.
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 2020 to 2021, from $847k to $956k (+13%).
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: 2020 1% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of LIGHTHOUSE GOSPEL MISSION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Ralph Stinson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $10k.
3 of 6 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 GOSPEL MISSION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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 GOSPEL MISSION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 88%; 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 GOSPEL MISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 78% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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 GOSPEL MISSION'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 $24k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 GOSPEL MISSION's revenue fell 61% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding LIGHTHOUSE GOSPEL MISSION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $25k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LIGHTHOUSE GOSPEL MISSION
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE GOSPEL MISSION?
- LIGHTHOUSE GOSPEL MISSION (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,551 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ($30,000). 4 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 GOSPEL MISSION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $83,551 in grants to LIGHTHOUSE GOSPEL MISSION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIGHTHOUSE GOSPEL MISSION?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIGHTHOUSE GOSPEL MISSION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2017–2024), 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