Ohio · Nonprofit
LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES
LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES (Ohio) receives grants from 148 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,064,393 to it, the largest being Strategies to End Homelessness Inc ($5,283,680). 96 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $43M
- Funders on record
- 148
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What Lighthouse Youth Services does
Mission
To empower young people and families to succeed through a continuum of care that promotes healing and growth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The juvenile justice:specialized services to help deter youth from repeating risky behaviors including: residential treatment centers; prevention, placement and reentry services; and counseling. This service area has served 444 individuals this year.
$6,914,530 spent$1,816,030 earned by the program24% of program spendingClinical services:expert and compassionate care so children, youth and families can heal, grow and thrive including: therapy services; case management services; wrap around services; foster care and adoption; and school based services. This service area has served 2,269 individuals during the year.
$12,827,165 spentof which $2,585,762 as grants$3,972,564 earned by the program44% of program spendingYouth and family housing services:a continuum of care and support for youth and their families through prevention, crisis intervention and long-term housing services. The range of services include: shelter care; housing opportunities; life skill training; crisis hotline; street outreach; and support designed to assure that youth and their families have the best possible opportunities in life. This service area has served 1,008 individuals during the year.
$9,355,854 spentof which $2,627,936 as grants$5,561,590 earned by the program32% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,097,549.
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 2023 to 2024, from $9.2M to $12M (+35%).
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: 2017 25% · 2018 25% · 2019 26% · 2020 34% · 2021 34% · 2022 27% · 2023 19% · 2024 65% · 2025 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
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
Paul Haffner
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 70 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $4.5M.
16 of 148 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $17M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lighthouse Beacon for Youth Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES raised.
From the IRS filings of LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 148 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 SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
62% 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 YOUTH SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 22% · 2019 21% · 2020 17% · 2021 20% · 2022 19% · 2023 59% — growing more concentrated.
“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
53% of LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
85% of LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 YOUTH SERVICES's funding base is broadening — from 35 funders to 70 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$8.0M
- Department of Justice$300k
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 YOUTH SERVICES
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Lighthouse Beacon for Youth Foundation Inc · exempt
- New Life Properties Inc · exempt
- Ideafor Inc · exempt
- Eyh Iowa LLC · partnership
- McMillan Street Associates LLC · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: 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 SERVICES?
- LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES (Ohio) receives grants from 148 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,064,393 to it, the largest being Strategies to End Homelessness Inc ($5,283,680). 96 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 148 organizations giving $20,064,393 in grants to LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES, 96 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES?
- Strategies to End Homelessness Inc is the largest funder on record, with $5,283,680 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 148 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