Light a Lamp

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 833927580
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2024–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location: Mead, WA, USA
Phone: 5099910438
Rating: 85
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Gift Distribution

Reported finances

Revenue: $108,658
Expenses: $94,954
Assets: $105,759
Liabilities: $4,981

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

KRYSTAL ALLISON (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

KRYSTAL ALLISON (PRESIDENT)
JANE BEESON (VICE PRESIDE)
KERI NOELLE (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

Light a lamp is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that promotes positive mental health and offers assistance to vulnerable groups in hopes to prevent suicide and encourage inner strength during challenging times. We come alongside those struggling with grief, illness and severe anxiety or depression in a tangible way. Through light a lamp's care package deliveries and connection groups, we share mental health resources, provide daily necessities, anti-anxiety tools and comfort items.

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 99% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 92
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 57
Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 87.4%; rating input score 87
Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: 12.6%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 26% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -11.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 17.5% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 87.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $95K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.