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LANTERN FOUNDATION

EIN 85-0713747 HICKORY, NC

Revenue 2024
$2,955,936
Expenses 2024
$3,043,394

Program services were 86.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
X01
Classification
1257
Street
2359 HIGHWAY 20 SE 240

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

UNITE WITH NATIONS TO RESCUE THE EXPLOITED, THE PERSECUTED AND THE DISPLACED.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO UNITE WITH NATIONS TO RESCUE THE EXPLOITED, THE PERSECUTED AND THE DISPLACED.

  • SELECTED AND TRAINED TASK FORCE MEMBERS THAT RESCUED VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN VARIOUS AREAS SUCH AS CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARRIBBEAN, EUROPE, SOUTH AMERICA, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, AND NORTH AFRICA.

    Expenses $2,183,532 · Grants $1,544,249

  • RESCUING THOSE FACED WITH PERSECUTION IN ASIA, THE PACIFIC AND MIDDLE EAST.

    Expenses $255,500 · Grants $246,000

  • PROVIDED HUMANITARIAN AID IN COUNTRIES IN CRISIS OR WAR.

    Expenses $169,998 · Grants $165,247

  • PROVIDING VICTIM CARE SERVICES

    Expenses $35,348

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • KORRIN MOON

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $121,974
    From this org
    $121,974
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • STEVE BIONDO

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • JENNIFER STRICKLAND

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • DAVID HODGES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • KYLE ROOSEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $2,955,936
    Expenses
    $3,043,394
    Contributions
    $2,955,936
    Grants paid
    $1,955,496
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,433,995
    Expenses
    $3,635,871
    Contributions
    $3,432,198
    Grants paid
    $1,318,141
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,433,995
    Expenses
    $3,716,352
    Contributions
    $3,432,198
    Grants paid
    $1,398,337
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,589,339
    Expenses
    $2,171,697
    Contributions
    $2,589,339
    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

    Revenue
    $419,034
    Expenses
    $256,287
    Assets (EOY)
    $185,303

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $104,634
    Expenses
    $82,078
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,556

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

Where these grants went next →

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.