Arkansas · Nonprofit
LUMENATIONS
LUMENATIONS (Arkansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being American Fidelity Foundation ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $69k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $5k
What Lumenations does
Mission
Lumenations is a Christian religious organization. We help churches, Christian missionary organizations, Christian educational organizations here in the U.S. and Internationally by developing media-based training resources for their use. We are particularly focused on helping Disciple-making and Evangelism through International Missionaries for Christ and other organizations in East Africa - namely, Uganda and Kenya. We also seek to use media to gather stories of what disciple-makers are doing around the world and use those stories within our media resources. We help organizations and churches with discipleship training and other outreach ministry. We do all of this free of charge for those we serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
We have continued to be involved in missions, training and mobilization efforts globally. This has included some travel but not as much as in previous years due to the fact that the Shackelfords are now involved in local church work full-time in the states.
$8,248 spent62% of program spendingWith the Shackelford family now back in the U.S. (having moved from North Africa), Lumenations has now turned its focus almost exclusively upon the work we are connected with in East Africa. We call it "L.E.A.F." - the "Lumenations East Africa Fund". We are continuing to support this evangelistic and disciple-making effort in East Africa (primarily in Kenya and Uganda) through the International Missionaries for Christ group of evangelists and other organizations. Ken first connected with this group during a trip to Uganda in 2019 and John Paul Wornock (our board chair) two years before that. Eric Booth is leading Lumenations in this effort. The evangelists and disciple-makers have seen literally thousands of people come to Christ and begin their life journey with Jesus. Our involvement with this will grow in future years as we see our time in North Africa coming to an end.
$0 spentof which $73,332 as grants0% of program spendingWe are continuing to do work on media creation for training and mobilization purposes with plans to do more in the future.
$5,074 spent38% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $13,322.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $74k to $34k (−54%).
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: 2021 7% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of LUMENATIONS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Kenneth Shackelford
Executive Director
Board chair
John Paul Wornock
Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 LUMENATIONS’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
LUMENATIONS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arkansas, across 1 state in all.
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
LUMENATIONS's revenue fell 69% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LUMENATIONS: 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 LUMENATIONS?
- LUMENATIONS (Arkansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being American Fidelity Foundation ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUMENATIONS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to LUMENATIONS.
- Who is the largest funder of LUMENATIONS?
- American Fidelity Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUMENATIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 2021–2025), 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