Lighthouse Child & Family Development Center

Analysis

Lighthouse Child & Family Development Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Springfield, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Lighthouse Child & Family Development Center reported income of $52k and spending of $113k, spending 219% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $253k to $52k (-80%), an average of -33% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 50%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Lighthouse Child & Family Development Center sits at the 18th percentile: it is larger than about 18% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 20th percentile, and in the 18th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Housing Our Own-Wilmette ($52k), Lauren McCluskey Foundation ($52k) and Adams Cameron Foundation Inc ($52k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 2.1% and program service revenue 87% of the total. At year end it held assets of $39k against liabilities of $5, net assets of $39k.