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LIGHTHOUSE THRIFT STORE

EIN 84-3934466 MYERSTOWN, PA

Revenue 2025
$591,888
Expenses 2025
$500,263

Program services were 31.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P29
Classification
1700
Street
50 N RACE 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 · 2025

Mission

RAISE FUNDS FOR SUPPORT OF URBAN LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES IN HARRISBURG PA, WHICH IS A NON-PROFIT MINISTERING TO THE EMOTIONAL, EDUCATIONAL AND SPIRITUAL NEEDS OF THE RESIDENTS OF THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.

  • OPERATE A THRIFT STORE TO PROVIDE THE MYERSTOWN AND NEWPORT COMMUNITY WITH AN OUTLET FOR THEIR USED MERCHANDISE AND A SOURCE FOR REASONABLY PRICED USED MERCHANDISE AND SERVICES. THE STORE ALSO PROVIDES VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITES AMOUNG LOCAL CHURCH GROUPS FOR BOTH SERVICE AND TRAINING BENEFITS. PROFITS GO TO SUPPORT URBAN LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES.

    Expenses $158,198 · Grants $41,000 · Revenue $546,033

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • NELSON GINGERICH

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROBERT L KAUFFMAN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AUSTIN MARTIN

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK NEWSWANGER

    STORE DIRECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KURT NOLT

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SYLVAN WITMER

    MEMBER

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $591,888
    Expenses
    $500,263
    Contributions
    $35,735
    Grants paid
    $41,000
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $574,519
    Expenses
    $413,124
    Contributions
    $141,873
    Grants paid
    $90,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $577,170
    Expenses
    $355,545
    Contributions
    $221,489
    Grants paid
    $121,100
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $396,300
    Expenses
    $290,291
    Contributions
    $79,746
    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
    $412,990
    Expenses
    $231,353
    Assets (EOY)
    $222,860

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.