Children of Light
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 884217409
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Fitchburg, MA, USA
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $51,500
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $90,500
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEAN DARIL LARAQUE (PRESIDENT)
- HERODE GUIRAND (VICE-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JEAN DARIL LARAQUE (PRESIDENT)
- HERODE GUIRAND (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- MARIE PETUELLE D MONBRUN (ASSISTANT CLERK)
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
To inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in the lives of homeless and needy children to fight hunger. Our program is to support community driven initiative offering after school program mentorship and leadership opportunities to help young people develop confidence life skills and a sense of purpose. also to provide workshops counselling and access to financial resources like grants and donations to help community members manage their finances and achieve economic stability.
What it reported doing in 2025
Toys distribution during christmas season every year in the community for children and families in need of a gift. We serve cook food and coffe for all.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 65% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filed totals do not add up and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: Limited
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: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -69.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $90K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 5 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.