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START LIGHTHOUSE

EIN 85-2137528 NEW YORK, NY

Largest nonprofits in New York

Revenue 2024
$670,867
Expenses 2024
$624,082

Program services were 74.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B99
Classification
1230
Street
234 10TH AVE UNIT 20603

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

Mission

FOUNDED NBSP;IN NBSP;BRONX NBSP;NY NBSP;START NBSP;LIGHTHOUSE NBSP;IS NBSP;A NBSP;501(C)3 NBSP;NONPROFIT NBSP;DEDICATED NBSP;TO NBSP;ADVANCING NBSP;CHILDHOOD NBSP;LITERACY NBSP;THROUGH NBSP;A NBSP;SOCIAL NBSP;JUSTICE NBSP;LENSE NBSP;START NBSP;LIGHTHOUSE NBSP;ADDRESSES NBSP;THE NBSP;LITERACY NBSP;CRISIS NBSP;WITH NBSP;A NBSP;THREE-PRONGED NBSP;APPROACH NBSP;TO NBSP;CREATE NBSP;COMPELLING NBSP;REWARDING NBSP;READING NBSP;PROGRAMS

Activities or mission (Part I)

FOUNDED IN BRONX, NY, START LIGHTHOUSE IS A 501(C)3 NONPROFIT DEDICATED TO ADVANCING CHILDHOOD LITERACY THROUGH A SOCIAL JUSTICE LENSE. START LIGHTHOUSE ADDRESSES THE LITERACY CRISIS WITH A THREE-PRONGED APPROACH TO CREATE COMPELLING, REWARDING READING PROGRAMS FOR STUDENTS, THEIR TEACHERS, AND THEIR FAMILIES.

  • LITERACY ADVENTURE PROGRAM

    Expenses $46,642 · Revenue $64,050

  • LITERACY HUBS

    Expenses $19,024 · Revenue $64,050

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.

  • Rina Madhani

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $99,716
    From this org
    $99,716
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Alison Schwartz

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Carl Lennerts

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ellen Rothschild

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jonathan Chou

    OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $670,867
    Expenses
    $624,082
    Contributions
    $532,695
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $501,120
    Expenses
    $544,162
    Contributions
    $372,948
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $560,929
    Expenses
    $548,881
    Contributions
    $432,829
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $801,431
    Expenses
    $356,510
    Contributions
    $679,531
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $211,783
    Expenses
    $177,338
    Contributions
    $68,783
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $265,649
    Expenses
    $177,386
    Contributions
    $228,149
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $211,783
    Expenses
    $177,338
    Contributions
    $68,783
    Grants paid
    $0

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $35,771
    Expenses
    $24,538
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.