Urban Lighthouse Ministries

Analysis

Urban Lighthouse Ministries is a registered charity in United States, based in Harrisburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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, Urban Lighthouse Ministries reported income of $446k and spending of $395k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $321k to $446k (+39%), an average of +8.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 95%. Over the whole period it spent 79% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Urban Lighthouse Ministries sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Padua Franciscan High School Endowment Trust ($446k), Honored Foundation ($446k) and Nabe Foundation of the National Association for Business Economics ($446k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% and program service revenue 12% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $234k. At year end it held assets of $714k against liabilities of $8,302, net assets of $706k. It reported 19 employees.