Lights Up Ministries Inc

Analysis

Lights Up Ministries Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Sioux Falls, SD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religion-related, which this site groups under religion. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Lights Up Ministries Inc reported income of $176k and spending of $195k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $332k to $176k (-47%), an average of -47% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 76% of the income it received.

Among 31,138 United States charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Lights Up Ministries Inc sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 48th percentile within SD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Square One Church Planting ($176k), Lithuanian Catholic Federation Atetis Incorporated ($176k) and Progressive Media Inc ($176k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 43% and program service revenue 54% of the total. At year end it held assets of $199k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $199k.