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LYNCHBURG BEACON OF HOPE

EIN 45-3797831 LYNCHBURG, VA

Revenue 2024
$1,423,720
Expenses 2024
$1,626,524

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
B12
Classification
1000
Street
915 COURT ST

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

"TO ENCOURAGE IN ALL LYNCHBURG CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS THE ASPIRATION TO PURSUE, AND PROVIDE THEM WITH THE TOOLS AND RESOURCES TO ATTAIN, A POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION."

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO INSPIRE LYNCHBURG'S YOUTH TO PURSUE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION OR TRAINING, INVEST IN THEIR POTENTIAL, AND EQUIP THEM TO BECOME CONTRIBUTING INDIVIDUALS TO THE BETTERMENT OF OUR SOCIETY.

  • FUTURE CENTERS HOUSED IN BOTH LCS HIGH SCHOOLS (STAFFED, MAINTAINED, AND FUNDED BY THE BEACON OF HOPE) WHICH PROVIDES RESOURCES ON FINANCIAL AID AND COLLEGE ADMISSIONS FOR ALL LCS STUDENTS, GUIDANCE ON LOCAL AND FEDERAL FINANCIAL AID AND MENTORING PROGRAMS WHICH DILIGENTLY WORK TO ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO APPLY AND LEVERAGE ALL AVAILABLE RESOURCES. SCHOLARSHIPS ARE MADE AVAILABLE AS PART OF THE APPLICATION PROCESS.

    Expenses $1,217,971 · Grants $341,947

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.

  • AMANDA SMITHSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BILLY HANSEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DESHA BEST

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DREW STAFFORD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GARY RAULERSON

    PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • HEATHER ZIPPEL

    VICE CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JAMISON SPINNER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JEFF THOMPSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOHN CAPPS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KATHLEEN DAVIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KELLEA HOGAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KENNON WHITE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KEVIN HOOPER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KEVIN SMITH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARGARET SCHMITT

    CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARTY WRIGHT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MICHAEL MADDEN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MURIEL MICKLES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PEGGY NOLLEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TERRY BRENNAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • THOMAS DELANEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • VERONICA BEVERLY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • YVETTE MILLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LEIDRA MCQUEEN

    EXEC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $109,465
    From this org
    $109,465
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $1,423,720
    Expenses
    $1,626,524
    Contributions
    $1,171,461
    Grants paid
    $341,947
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,850,438
    Expenses
    $1,748,048
    Contributions
    $1,745,672
    Grants paid
    $564,169
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,088,472
    Expenses
    $1,302,981
    Contributions
    $1,030,552
    Grants paid
    $287,463

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
    $1,200,140
    Expenses
    $1,084,266
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,890,715

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,341,607
    Expenses
    $993,995
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,016,910

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,214,805
    Expenses
    $794,868
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,543,756

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,932,224
    Expenses
    $538,251
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,004,480

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,304,204
    Expenses
    $493,844
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,603,613

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,699,484
    Expenses
    $540,184
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,770,881

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $389,769
    Expenses
    $449,942
    Assets (EOY)
    $592,320

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $482,173
    Expenses
    $354,160
    Assets (EOY)
    $583,704

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $356,431
    Expenses
    $326,150
    Assets (EOY)
    $446,945

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $198,485
    Expenses
    $95,739
    Assets (EOY)
    $111,237

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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.