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SON LIGHT HOUSE

SON LIGHT HOUSE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,073 to it, the largest being MARY H ASHKAR CHARITABLE TRUST 200011 ($59,142). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$224k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$110k
Net assets
$346k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Son Light House does

Mission

Distributes food, clothing and limited furniture to individuals and families in need and that qualify on family income guidelines set up by state and federal policies.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providing food for the needy in the local community.

    $124,289 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $124,289.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($79k) Expenses 100 ($60k) Net assets 100 ($83k)2018 Revenue 152 ($120k) Expenses 102 ($61k) Net assets 172 ($142k)2019 Revenue 96 ($75k) Expenses 93 ($55k) Net assets 248 ($205k)2020 Revenue 131 ($104k) Expenses 155 ($92k) Net assets 262 ($216k)2021 Revenue 129 ($102k) Expenses 214 ($128k) Net assets 231 ($191k)2022 Revenue 120 ($95k) Expenses 192 ($114k) Net assets 207 ($171k)2023 Revenue 174 ($138k) Expenses 131 ($78k) Net assets 279 ($230k)2024 Revenue 186 ($147k) Expenses 215 ($128k) Net assets 301 ($249k)2025 Revenue 284 ($224k) Expenses 214 ($127k) Net assets 419 ($346k)
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Revenue (284)Expenses (214)Net assets (419)

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 $249k to $346k (+39%).

$83k
$142k
$205k
$216k
$191k
$171k
$230k
$249k
$346k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
’17
$59k
’18
$20k
’19
$11k
’20
−$26k
’21
−$20k
’22
$60k
’23
$18k
’24
$97k
’25
26
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.

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Listed886644434
Joined·+0+2+0+2+0+0+1+1
No longer listed·04040020
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $13k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 SON LIGHT HOUSE’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

SON LIGHT HOUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% 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

45% 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 SON LIGHT HOUSE.

54%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 78% · 2022 55% · 2023 54% — 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

100% of SON LIGHT HOUSE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Organizations like SON LIGHT HOUSE

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SON LIGHT HOUSE: 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 SON LIGHT HOUSE?
SON LIGHT HOUSE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,073 to it, the largest being MARY H ASHKAR CHARITABLE TRUST 200011 ($59,142). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SON LIGHT HOUSE have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $110,073 in grants to SON LIGHT HOUSE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SON LIGHT HOUSE?
MARY H ASHKAR CHARITABLE TRUST 200011 is the largest funder on record, with $59,142 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SON LIGHT HOUSE 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.

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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 4 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