Lightshine International Ministries

Analysis

Lightshine International Ministries is a registered charity in United States, based in Elizabethtown, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religion-related, which this site groups under religion. 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, Lightshine International Ministries reported income of $323k and spending of $268k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $230k to $323k (+40%), an average of +8.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 73% of the income it received.

Among 31,138 United States charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Lightshine International Ministries sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile, and in the 61st percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Interim Ministry Network ($323k), Catholic Servant Ministries Inc ($323k) and Promise Reapers Inc ($323k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 40% and program service revenue 60% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $26k. At year end it held assets of $501k against liabilities of $840, net assets of $500k. It reported 1 employees.