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LUC'S LIGHT YOUTH MUSIC & ARTS

LUC'S LIGHT YOUTH MUSIC & ARTS (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,580 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($62,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$125k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$100k
Net assets
$289k
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Luc's Light Youth Music & Arts does

Mission

Providing teens of southwest michigan the tools and training to explore and develop their artistic talents and creative expression in a safe and supportive environment. We encourage our students to find their voice through music, dance, painting, and other artistic forms; with faith-based values at our core.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providing students with guitars and teaching them how to play, along with music appreciation and history. Teaching art through painting in different techniques and vocal instructions.

    $28,610 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $28,610.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($172k) Expenses 100 ($16k) Net assets 100 ($155k)2023 Revenue 39 ($67k) Expenses 156 ($26k) Net assets 127 ($196k)2024 Revenue 73 ($125k) Expenses 200 ($33k) Net assets 186 ($289k)
202220232024
Revenue (73)Expenses (200)Net assets (186)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 2023 to 2024, from $196k to $517k (+163%).

$155k
$196k
$517k
202220232024
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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

85% of LUC'S LIGHT YOUTH MUSIC & ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$155k
’22
$41k
’23
$92k
’24
66
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.

202220232024
Listed888
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $20k → $18k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 LUC'S LIGHT YOUTH MUSIC & ARTS’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.

How concentrated its funding is

LUC'S LIGHT YOUTH MUSIC & ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

68% 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 LUC'S LIGHT YOUTH MUSIC & ARTS.

63%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 50% · 2023 43% — 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.

Where its funders are

68% of LUC'S LIGHT YOUTH MUSIC & ARTS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $32k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.

MI
NY

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

’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

LUC'S LIGHT YOUTH MUSIC & ARTS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin74% · top quartile
Months of reserve65.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−15% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like LUC'S LIGHT YOUTH MUSIC & ARTS

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

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

92%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds LUC'S LIGHT YOUTH MUSIC & ARTS?
LUC'S LIGHT YOUTH MUSIC & ARTS (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,580 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($62,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LUC'S LIGHT YOUTH MUSIC & ARTS have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $99,580 in grants to LUC'S LIGHT YOUTH MUSIC & ARTS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LUC'S LIGHT YOUTH MUSIC & ARTS?
RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $62,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LUC'S LIGHT YOUTH MUSIC & ARTS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 5 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