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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by LIGHT FOUNDATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,936,585
Total expenses
$1,685,743
Contributions and grants received
$1,767,605
Grants paid
$4,000
Program service revenue
$9,691
Investment income
$226,630
Other revenue
-$67,341
Total assets, end of year
$7,121,269
Total liabilities, end of year
$588,110
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$6,533,159
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$853,614
Management and general expenses
$480,314
Fundraising expenses
$351,815
Program service expenses (Part III)
$853,614

Program services were 50.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $1,140,905

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $626,700

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $337,955

  • 2a · Program service revenue: PROGRAM REVENUE

    total $9,691 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $9,691

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $226,630 · excluded $226,630

  • 6a · Gross rents

    real property $1,300

  • 6b · Less rental expenses

    real property $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $1,300

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $1,300 · excluded $1,300

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $504,753

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $1,140,905

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $709,660

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$204,907 · excluded -$204,907

  • 9a · Gaming: gross income

    $123,808

  • 9b · Gaming: direct expenses

    $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $123,808 · related or exempt $123,808

  • 11a · Other revenue: OTHER INCOME

    total $12,458 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $12,458

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $12,458

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $4,000 · program services $4,000

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $748,945 · program services $453,766 · management and general $285,635 · fundraising $9,544

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $1,500 · program services $29 · management and general $1,471

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $2,146 · management and general $2,146

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $24,410 · management and general $24,410

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $6,931 · program services $2,719 · management and general $4,212

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $29,570 · program services $22,130 · management and general $7,440

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $44,487 · program services $8 · management and general $29,866 · fundraising $14,613

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $23,467 · program services $14,938 · management and general $8,529

  • 17 · Travel

    total $39,164 · program services $29,925 · management and general $8,109 · fundraising $1,130

  • 20 · Interest

    total $16,901 · management and general $16,901

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $97,272 · program services $97,272

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $30,886 · program services $23,970 · management and general $6,916

  • 24a · Other expenses: IN-KIND GOODS AND SERVI

    total $337,955 · program services $35,457 · fundraising $302,498

  • 24b · Other expenses: OTHER EXPENSES

    total $87,514 · program services $27,098 · management and general $41,713 · fundraising $18,703

  • 24c · Other expenses: HARMON FIELD EXPENSES

    total $66,545 · program services $66,545

  • 24d · Other expenses: OTHER MISCELLANEOUS EXP

    total $45,210 · program services $14,686 · management and general $30,524

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $78,840 · program services $61,071 · management and general $12,442 · fundraising $5,327

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $382,978 · end of year $161,894

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $40,500 · end of year $0

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $2,240,132

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $814,234

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $1,229,153 · end of year $1,425,898

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $4,941,962 · end of year $5,533,477

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $23,168 · end of year $0

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $137,090 · end of year $189,738

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $5,698 · end of year $10,231

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $408,406 · end of year $388,141

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $6,020,022 · end of year $6,533,159

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $46,545 · end of year $0

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

SEE SCHEDULE O

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE LIGHT FOUNDATION STRIVES TO EMPOWER YOUNG PEOPLE TO REACH THEIR HIGHEST POTENTIAL BY INITIATING AND SUPPORTING HANDS ON PROGRAMS AND EVENTS THAT PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF RATIONAL MORAL VALUES AND PERSONAL FINANCIAL ACUMEN SO AS TO INSTILL A SENSE OF SELF-RELIANCE.

  • YOUTH PROGRAMMING

    Expenses $853,614 · Grants $4,000 · Revenue $9,691

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Brian McCarthy

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Daren Hiatt

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Drubner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jamie Marshall

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Matt Light

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Steve Trax

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Frederick Clark

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Francesca Federico

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bobby Loffredo

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tram Holland

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Susie Light

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Russ Mezikofsky

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Michael Rieman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kylie Ruschioni

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Margrette Mondillo

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $227,446
    From this org
    $227,446
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $189,150
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $38,296
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $227,446

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
24 July 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202412139349301301

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