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LIGHTHOUSE RANCH FOR BOYS INC

LIGHTHOUSE RANCH FOR BOYS INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $343,801 to it, the largest being IRENE W & CB PENNINGTON PRIVATE FOUNDATION ($113,900). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.6M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$344k
Net assets
$997k
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Lighthouse Ranch for Boys Inc does

Mission

To heal the broken lives of young men through theraputic guidance methods and a ministry of love and caring.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Healing the broken lives of young men whose lives somehow turned down the wrong path, made wrong choices and need another chance in life thorugh therapeutic guidance methods and a ministry of love and caring.

    $1,780,266 spent$1,612,375 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,780,266.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($195k)2018 Revenue 105 ($1.2M) Expenses 99 ($1.2M) Net assets 103 ($201k)2019 Revenue 130 ($1.5M) Expenses 122 ($1.5M) Net assets 105 ($204k)2020 Revenue 144 ($1.6M) Expenses 121 ($1.4M) Net assets 196 ($383k)2021 Revenue 157 ($1.8M) Expenses 133 ($1.6M) Net assets 280 ($546k)2022 Revenue 222 ($2.5M) Expenses 169 ($2.0M) Net assets 530 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 210 ($2.4M) Expenses 226 ($2.7M) Net assets 500 ($976k)2024 Revenue 231 ($2.6M) Expenses 220 ($2.6M) Net assets 493 ($961k)2025 Revenue 229 ($2.6M) Expenses 213 ($2.5M) Net assets 511 ($997k)
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Revenue (229)Expenses (213)Net assets (511)Peer revenue range

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 $1.1M to $1.7M (+54%).

$523k
$550k
$571k
$902k
$1.1M
$1.7M
$2.1M
$2.3M
$2.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

37% of LIGHTHOUSE RANCH FOR BOYS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$66k
’17
$6k
’18
$3k
’19
$179k
’20
$176k
’21
$488k
’22
−$331k
’23
−$15k
’24
$36k
’25
1.6
months of
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

Daniel V Smith

CEO

Board chair

Rev Billy Trusley Jr

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed232325263025231921
Joined·+0+3+2+5+4+2+1+3
No longer listed·01119451
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $20k → $138k.

7 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 RANCH FOR BOYS INC’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 RANCH FOR BOYS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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

51% 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 RANCH FOR BOYS INC.

33%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 50% · 2019 48% · 2020 75% · 2021 59% · 2022 92% · 2023 36% — 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

50% of LIGHTHOUSE RANCH FOR BOYS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

51% of LIGHTHOUSE RANCH FOR BOYS INC'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 $170k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from Louisiana funders.

OH
LA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Louisiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $174k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LIGHTHOUSE RANCH FOR BOYS INC has grown faster than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve1.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like LIGHTHOUSE RANCH FOR BOYS INC

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In Louisiana

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 23%Fundraising 7%

Governance

25
board members
92%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

90%

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 RANCH FOR BOYS INC?
LIGHTHOUSE RANCH FOR BOYS INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $343,801 to it, the largest being IRENE W & CB PENNINGTON PRIVATE FOUNDATION ($113,900). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LIGHTHOUSE RANCH FOR BOYS INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $343,801 in grants to LIGHTHOUSE RANCH FOR BOYS INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIGHTHOUSE RANCH FOR BOYS INC?
IRENE W & CB PENNINGTON PRIVATE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $113,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIGHTHOUSE RANCH FOR BOYS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 11 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