Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PRESQUE ISLE LIGHT STATION
PRESQUE ISLE LIGHT STATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,148 to it, the largest being ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($36,709). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $344k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $761k
What Presque Isle Light Station does
Mission
The mission of the Presque Isle Light Station shall be to establish and support efforts in the restoration and preservation of the presque isle lighthouse to a period of significance to acquire and maintain safe keeping of building/grounds, artifacts and historical records of presque isle lighthouse; and to create educational and recreational opportunities that accurately interpret the maritime history of presque isle lighthouse for all visitors and preserves it for future generations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The lighthouse seven days a week during the summer months to the public. In addition it was open on weekends in the fall. This allowed visitors from all the states and other countries to tour the historical lighthouse and learn about the maritime experience.
$31,879 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $31,879.
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 $631k to $801k (+27%).
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: 2018 20% · 2020 42% · 2021 10% · 2022 15% · 2023 3% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of PRESQUE ISLE LIGHT STATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Averie Shaughnessy-Comfort
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $11k → $5k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 PRESQUE ISLE LIGHT STATION’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
PRESQUE ISLE LIGHT STATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 PRESQUE ISLE LIGHT STATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
97% of PRESQUE ISLE LIGHT STATION'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
PRESQUE ISLE LIGHT STATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PRESQUE ISLE LIGHT STATION
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
9% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 PRESQUE ISLE LIGHT STATION: 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 PRESQUE ISLE LIGHT STATION?
- PRESQUE ISLE LIGHT STATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,148 to it, the largest being ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($36,709). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PRESQUE ISLE LIGHT STATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $43,148 in grants to PRESQUE ISLE LIGHT STATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRESQUE ISLE LIGHT STATION?
- ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $36,709 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRESQUE ISLE LIGHT STATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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