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FIRST LIGHT INC

EIN 63-1197189 BIRMINGHAM, AL

Revenue 2024
$3,807,238
Expenses 2024
$2,451,915

Program services were 85.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P80
Classification
1000
Street
2230 4TH AVE N

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).

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.

  • CHERYL BRAKEFIELD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BRANDON PATTERSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BETH MALIZIA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KELSEY MITCHELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GWIN SANDERS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • VISHWA PATEL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • VINAY PATEL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • VIRGINIA MILLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PAMELA W KOEHLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARY GRACE JOHNSEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • REV TERRY HAMILTON-POORE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ARTHUR EDGE III

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JEFFREY A COWART

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LUCY COKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ALLISON CHANG-ROBERTS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MELINDA BURNETT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANDREW ALEXANDER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • EMILY T VANDE LUNE

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • DAMON REED

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • MILLICENT W RONNLUND

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • DAVIS GOODSON

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • SHERRY BRAY

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $109,113
    From this org
    $109,113
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

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 — 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
    $3,807,238
    Expenses
    $2,451,915
    Contributions
    $3,237,374
    Grants paid
    $899,775
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,794,046
    Expenses
    $2,286,513
    Contributions
    $4,372,595
    Grants paid
    $790,675
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,267,130
    Expenses
    $2,068,342
    Contributions
    $1,902,843
    Grants paid
    $530,852

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.

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 10 September 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.