Lights of the Delta Inc

Analysis

Lights of the Delta Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Blytheville, AR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Lights of the Delta Inc reported income of $176k and spending of $157k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $145k to $176k (+21%), an average of +4.8% a year. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Lights of the Delta Inc sits at the 48th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 51st percentile within AR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Leadership Pasadena Inc ($176k), Grundy Livingston Kankakee Workforce Investment Board Inc ($176k) and Bixby Knolls Community Foundation ($176k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 37% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $62k. At year end it held assets of $353k against liabilities of $1,578, net assets of $351k. It reported 1 employees.