Wisconsin · Nonprofit
THE LA CROSSE LIGHTHOUSE INC
THE LA CROSSE LIGHTHOUSE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $186,478 to it, the largest being LA CROSSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($181,478). 0 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.
Against its field
THE LA CROSSE LIGHTHOUSE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,726 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,726 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Elmwood Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172shared funderslocalportfolio match
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.
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: 2022 90% · 2023 96% · 2024 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE LA CROSSE LIGHTHOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 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 THE LA CROSSE LIGHTHOUSE INC’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
THE LA CROSSE LIGHTHOUSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 THE LA CROSSE LIGHTHOUSE INC.
“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 THE LA CROSSE LIGHTHOUSE INC'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $181k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 2 funders put you under-funded among the 224 organizations that share them.
- Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchWI · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 46 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Elmwood Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchWI · backs 12 organizations that share your funders · funds 9 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172shared funderslocalportfolio matchWI · backs 28 organizations that share your funders · funds 30 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sue Anne Gelatt Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchWI · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · funds 30 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- June Onefive Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchWI · funds 10 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Great Rivers United Way Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 20 organizations that share your funders · funds 21 organizations near you
- New Orleansartists Against Hunger and Homelessnessportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Peer Recovery Organizations Ohio-Proportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hope in the Hills Incorporated Healing Appalachiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Northeast Louisiana Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pinhook Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alm Charities Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · funds 45 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE LA CROSSE LIGHTHOUSE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% 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 THE LA CROSSE LIGHTHOUSE INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LA CROSSE LIGHTHOUSE INC?
- THE LA CROSSE LIGHTHOUSE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $186,478 to it, the largest being LA CROSSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($181,478). 0 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 THE LA CROSSE LIGHTHOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $186,478 in grants to THE LA CROSSE LIGHTHOUSE INC.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LA CROSSE LIGHTHOUSE INC?
- LA CROSSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $181,478 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LA CROSSE LIGHTHOUSE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing