Shining Light Childrens Home

Analysis

Shining Light Childrens Home is a registered charity in United States, based in Grandview, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2011, 15 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, Shining Light Childrens Home reported income of $415k and spending of $433k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $290k to $415k (+43%), an average of +9.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Shining Light Childrens Home 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 67th percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Association for the Assistance of Disabled Veterans of the Republic ($415k), Awaken Pittsburgh ($415k) and Home for Awhile Golf Tournament Inc ($415k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $129k against liabilities of $49k, net assets of $80k.