Ohio · Nonprofit
LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER
LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,829,626 to it, the largest being MOUNT CARMEL HEALTH SYSTEM ($1,192,660). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Lower Lights Christian Health Center does
Mission
Lower Lights Christian Health Center (llchc) ministers the love of christ as a model full-service medical home, focused on whole-person wellness, available to all in central ohio who need it, regardless of ability to pay.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization seeks to provide community based, full service medical care that addresses the needs of the whole person - body, soul, mind, and spirit - in an atmosphere that reflects the love and healing of jesus christ, to all who need it regardless of their ability to pay. The organization also provides dental, vision, behavioral health, nutrition and spiritual services.
$25,480,570 spent$21,726,580 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $25,480,570.
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 2020 to 2021, from $7.9M to $11M (+34%).
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 34% · 2018 38% · 2019 36% · 2020 38% · 2021 32% · 2022 39% · 2023 38% · 2024 28% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Tracy Cloud
CEO
Board chair
Brooke Jackson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $595k → $51k.
6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 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
LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 74% · 2019 44% · 2020 93% · 2021 83% · 2022 53% · 2023 69% — 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
25% of LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
96% of LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $708k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $49.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$49.7M
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 LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER: 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 LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER?
- LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,829,626 to it, the largest being MOUNT CARMEL HEALTH SYSTEM ($1,192,660). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,829,626 in grants to LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER?
- MOUNT CARMEL HEALTH SYSTEM is the largest funder on record, with $1,192,660 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOWER LIGHTS CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER 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.
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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 25 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