Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE LIGHTHOUSE
THE LIGHTHOUSE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,262,082 to it, the largest being XIENTE ($1,093,355). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What The Lighthouse does
Mission
Provide educational, recreational and economic improvement programs to families and individuals to effect positive change and improve the quality of their lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Family & Youth Programs The Lighthouse hosted multiple youth programs and community events. After school programs for a wide variety of age groups that focused on providing children with art, sports, social emotional learning, and leadership development were held. There were also 6 week long sport programs such as soccer, baseball, basketball, flag football, ceramics, The Bodega Project, and esports. Also community events such as Harvest Festival, Easter Festival, Winter Fest, and Thanksgiving turkey giveaways. The Lighthouse also facilitated a couple of field trips that included bringing young students to local college campuses for tours such as the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Harrisburg. In all, about 2,500 children, family members, and community members were served during this fiscal year.
$955,867 spent$207,333 earned by the program32% of program spendingDay Care - Education The Lighthouse holds a Star 4 Certificate and serves 194 students using the Creative Curriculum of Pennsylvania from 8:30 am to 2:45 pm. During the fiscal year 16 students were served from 3 pm to 5:30 pm in the before and aftercare programs. Our services run for 180 days and we are partners with Xiente and the SDP. Childrens data and assessment are submitted in order to be in compliance with our partners. The assessments are Teaching Strategies Gold, ASQs and SPM. The Lighthouse facilitates community events like Cultural Parade, Christmas Concert, Spring Concert, and Transitioning Ceremony. Students are served nutritionist hot meals like breakfast, lunch and snacks. A percentage of students that meet the age criteria transition to public, private, or charter schools kindergarten programs. The students that have attended the Lighthouse programs have shown well in their later education.
$2,070,271 spent$21,606 earned by the program68% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,026,138.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.3M to $2.0M (+52%).
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: 2017 89% · 2018 96% · 2019 97% · 2020 95% · 2021 96% · 2022 96% · 2023 91% · 2024 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of THE LIGHTHOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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
Edwin Desamour
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $30k.
2 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 LIGHTHOUSE’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 LIGHTHOUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 LIGHTHOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 33% · 2021 54% · 2022 62% · 2023 51% — 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.
How long its funders stay
13% of THE LIGHTHOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
87% of THE LIGHTHOUSE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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.
Against its field
THE LIGHTHOUSE receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2.3M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE LIGHTHOUSE
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
86% 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 THE LIGHTHOUSE: 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 THE LIGHTHOUSE?
- THE LIGHTHOUSE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,262,082 to it, the largest being XIENTE ($1,093,355). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LIGHTHOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $2,262,082 in grants to THE LIGHTHOUSE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LIGHTHOUSE?
- XIENTE is the largest funder on record, with $1,093,355 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LIGHTHOUSE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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