LUMINOS FUND

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B20

Classification

1200

Street

71 COMMERCIAL STREET 232

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• LUMINOS PROVIDES TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAMS TO THOUSANDS OF OUT-OF-SCHOOL CHILDREN, HELPING THEM TO CATCH UP TO GRADE LEVEL, REINTEGRATE INTO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS, AND PREPARE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING. LUMINOS WAS FOUNDED TO ENSURE ALL CHILDREN HAVE EQUAL ACCESS TO JOYFUL, FOUNDATIONAL LEARNING, ESPECIALLY THOSE SHUT OUT OF EDUCATION BY CRISIS, POVERTY, OR DISCRIMINATION. THEIR VISION IS OF A WORLD WHERE NO CHILD IS EVER DENIED THE CHANCE TO LEARN. TO DATE, LUMINOS HAS SERVED 377,407 CHILDREN ACROSS ETHIOPIA, GHANA, LIBERIA, LEBANON, AND THE GAMBIA. AS LUMINOS SCALES PIONEERING NEW APPROACHES TO BRING QUALITY EDUCATION TO CHILDREN IN THE GREATEST NEED, THEY WORK TOGETHER WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO DRIVE SYSTEMS-LEVEL CHANGE.

  Expenses $9,699,911 · Grants $4,478,983

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $14,330,335

  Expenses

  $11,429,764

  Contributions

  $14,134,934

  Grants paid

  $4,478,983

• 2023

  Revenue

  $11,533,486

  Expenses

  $9,768,661

  Contributions

  $11,533,486

  Grants paid

  $3,908,937

• 2022

  Revenue

  $8,018,871

  Expenses

  $6,992,865

  Contributions

  $8,018,871

  Grants paid

  $3,063,162

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,889,780

  Expenses

  $4,205,577

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,864,333

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,097,339

  Expenses

  $3,340,007

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,325,417

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,343,913

  Expenses

  $2,776,246

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,462,428

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,619,198

  Expenses

  $2,915,090

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,839,085

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,619,198

  Expenses

  $2,915,090

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,839,085

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,910,175

  Expenses

  $4,329,991

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,388,661

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,167,018

  Expenses

  $3,677,317

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,733,501

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

• GENEVA GLOBAL INC

  $161,624

  2022 · PROJECTS WITHIN ETHIOPIA

• NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL USA

  $50,000

  2023 · PROJECTS WITHIN OTHER ORGANIZATION

• NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL USA

  $50,000

  2024 · PROJECTS WITHIN OTHER ORGANIZATION

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Grants received

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $4,566,500

  2024 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $3,000,000

  2023 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $2,000,000

  2022 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $303,100

  2022 · EDUCATION

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $12,500

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $8,500

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $7,500

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

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