Brilliant Light International

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
832213339
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Tempe, AZ, USA
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$56,355
Expenses
$57,016
Assets
$3,402

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Ruth McKee Hoffman (President)

People named in this filing

  • Ruth McKee Hoffman (President)
  • Patti Johnson Smith (Secretary)
  • Steven C Southern (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

Trauma-informed recovery programs for incarcerated women and survivors of human trafficking and domestic violence.

What it reported doing in 2025

This program provides a team of trauma-trained women in ministry to serve in Arizona State Prison every week to provide trauma-informed church services in the most under-served sections of Perryville womens prison. We go where others are not serving including the Mental Health Units inside the Perryville Prison in addition to Lumley and San Pedro prison units. We provide a place where women in prison can feel safe accepted loved valued and heard. It is only from a place of safety and compassion that someone will take the risk of making real changes from the inside out: life transformation and break the generational patterns that held them back for so long and be successful integrating into community on the outside. Total of 2,158 incarcerated women served inside Arizona State Prison Perryville.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.2%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 78.3%; rating input score 78

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.2%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 49.2%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 25.7% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 24.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -8.3% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 79.2% of revenue deployed · 78.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $45K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.