Texas · Nonprofit
Lights Spectacular Hill Country Style Inc
Lights Spectacular Hill Country Style Inc (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being Create Healthy Management ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $106k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $81k
What Lights Spectacular Hill Country Style Inc does
Mission
Lights Spectacular hosts the city's annual holiday lights festival to provide an opportunity for our nonprofit community to earn money by selling food, beverages and trinkets to the tens of thousands of people who come to see the holiday light displays and decorations each year. Many of the participating nonprofits earn their whole year's income just on opening weekend.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Lights Spectacular supports local nonprofits with an opening weekend nonprofit-only food court and booth sales throughout. Many nonprofits earn full-year funding therefrom.
$26,880 spent75% of program spendingLights Spectacular provides Santa and character visits, as well as performing events opportunities, from Thanksgiving through Christmas, offering rural populations access thereto.
$5,349 spent15% of program spendingLights Spectacular awards college scholarships competitively to local high school seniors, funding from overall donations.
$3,500 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,729.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $26k to $82k (+210%).
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.
97% of Lights Spectacular Hill Country Style Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Lights Spectacular Hill Country Style 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Lights Spectacular Hill Country Style Inc's grant income comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Lights Spectacular Hill Country Style Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Lights Spectacular Hill Country Style 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.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lights Spectacular Hill Country Style 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 Lights Spectacular Hill Country Style Inc?
- Lights Spectacular Hill Country Style Inc (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being Create Healthy Management ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lights Spectacular Hill Country Style Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to Lights Spectacular Hill Country Style Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Lights Spectacular Hill Country Style Inc?
- Create Healthy Management is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lights Spectacular Hill Country Style Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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