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Screen a listLightning Foundation
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Listed with the IRS. Every screen came back clear.
A 501(c)(3) on Publication 78 and the IRS master file.
- IRS nonprofit listing
- No issue
- Revocation
- None
- IRS files
- Agree
- Sanctions
- No match
- IRS bulletin
- No notice
- California
- No record
- Charity type
- 509(a)(1)
$9.2Mrevenue
FY2025 · +30% in 3 yrs93staff
7 of 8years filed
’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Revenue and spendingRevenueSpendingDeficit
Against similar nonprofits FY2025
Operating margin6.8%
Months of reserve7.2mo
Revenue growth (annualized)+12.6%
Middle half of peersMedianLightning
Where the money goes FY2025 · $8.6M spent
Programs$6.2M72%Management and general$2.4M28%990 FY2025 · Part IX line 25
Nothing to check in the filings
In its favor1
Growing faster than peers
Revenue up 13% a year since FY2017, faster than half of similar nonprofits.
990 Part I · peer cohort24funders
$49ka year, last 3 years
34%from its largest funder
Funder’17’18’19’20’21’22’23Ryan Callahan Foundation IncOn and off$56kFrank Mangano FoundationNew in FY2023$50kThe Jason Ritchie Memorial Hockey Scholarship Foundation IncStopped after FY2019$30k$20k–Straz Family FoundationOn and off$50kSummer Breeze FoundationOn and off$50kAbout the Future IncNew in FY2023$15kDonor-advised giftsDonors not disclosed$105$187$30k$2097 other fundersUp to $12k a year each$10k$1k$2k$13k$400$100
FundedThrough a donor-advised fundStopped