A Lighted Path Houston
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 921304717
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8323326955
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $150,949
- Expenses
- $129,695
- Assets
- $49,615
- Liabilities
- $7,560
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARIE LORI GOBILLOT (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- REVEREND LEIGH SPRUILL (CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD)
- MARIE LORI GOBILLOT (PRESIDENT)
- BARBARA STROBEL (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purposes for which the corporation was organzed and to be operated are exclusively religious, charitable, scientific, and/or educatoinal within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended, and future corresponding laws of the united states (the "code"). In accomplishment of such purposes, the corporation will perform such other functions as may be necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purposes of the corporation.
What it reported doing in 2025
A strong start ("starting strong") hosts training and education for low income child care facility owners and workers. Additionally, the program supports early childhood development to contribute to success in the later lives of children. The grants amount includes a grant made to nabor house community in the amount of $7,400. Address of donee is 14100 memorial drive, houston, tx 77079.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 43% for direct work, and 57% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 29
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 27.2%; rating input score 27
- Program expense ratio: 31.7%; rating input score 32
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.1%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 49% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 81.2% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 27.2% of revenue deployed · 31.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $41K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.