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LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC

LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,657,843 to it, the largest being The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc ($600,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
32
Grants received
$2.7M
Net assets
$2.6M
21/32 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Lighthouse Youth Center Inc does

Mission

The mission of lighthouse is to be a beacon for christ to the youth of the community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Lighthouse provides the community with a central location where youth can gather safely for recreational activities and receive assistance with academic assignments. Youths also enjoy the positive influence of adult christian mentors and have opportunities to study and discuss the truths of scripture. Community service projects will be organized to encourage a sense of neighborhood pride.

    $985,330 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $985,330.

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 ($763k) Expenses 100 ($605k) Net assets 100 ($561k)2018 Revenue 159 ($1.2M) Expenses 101 ($609k) Net assets 207 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 139 ($1.1M) Expenses 117 ($710k) Net assets 270 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 129 ($984k) Expenses 126 ($763k) Net assets 309 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 154 ($1.2M) Expenses 173 ($1.0M) Net assets 333 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 194 ($1.5M) Expenses 140 ($848k) Net assets 446 ($2.5M)2023 Revenue 165 ($1.3M) Expenses 166 ($1.0M) Net assets 491 ($2.8M)2024 Revenue 165 ($1.3M) Expenses 225 ($1.4M) Net assets 472 ($2.6M)
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Revenue (165)Expenses (225)Net assets (472)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 $1.9M to $2.5M (+34%).

$581k
$1.2M
$1.6M
$1.9M
$1.9M
$2.5M
$2.8M
$2.7M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8% · 2022 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,038 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$158k
’17
$602k
’18
$351k
’19
$221k
’20
$131k
’21
$632k
’22
$252k
’23
−$104k
’24
18
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.

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Listed1213131312131212
Joined·+5+0+1+2+4+3+0
No longer listed·4013340
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $10k → $516k.

9 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 YOUTH CENTER INC’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 YOUTH CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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

23%
largest funder
57%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 51% · 2019 56% · 2020 20% · 2021 21% · 2022 22% · 2023 29% — 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

63% of LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

67% of LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

MN
WI
NY
MD
DE
TX

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

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $412k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 YOUTH CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve18.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 18%Fundraising 10%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC: 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 YOUTH CENTER INC?
LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,657,843 to it, the largest being The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc ($600,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $2,657,843 in grants to LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC?
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2017–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing