Light on the Hill
Legal name: Light on the Hill Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 223164588
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Van Etten, NY, USA
- Phone
- 607 589-4419
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $312,498
- Expenses
- $347,177
- Assets
- $1,762,316
- Liabilities
- $6,877
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDREA MOONEY (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JULIE SCHNEPEL (MANAGING DIRECTOR): $60,338 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Light on the Hill’s mission is to provide a supportive, healing, and inspiring environment where individuals and groups of all backgrounds can find safe space for reflection, deep inner work, and spiritual growth. Thank you so much for your ongoing support of Light on the Hill. At a time when fragmentation and pressure are common experiences in personal and business life, programs and facilities that help individuals to stay centered, become whole, and lead meaningful, engaged lives are critical to a healthy society. Support our mission with your tax-deductible gift. of any amount to support our mission. Thank you! We use PayPal’s secure server for secure credit card donations. **You may use a credit card with the PayPal server for a one-time contribution whether you have a PayPal account or not.
What it reported doing in 2025
Spiritual retreat center
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 76% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 75%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.1%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.08; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.4%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 83.9% of revenue deployed · 75% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $260K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $60K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.