Light Up Learning Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453679647
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Miami, FL, USA
- Phone
- 7863346967
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Remedial Reading, Reading Encouragement
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $35,609
- Expenses
- $41,587
- Assets
- $1,473
- Liabilities
- $69,508
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JESSICA CASTILLO (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JESSICA CASTILLO (PRESIDENT)
- ALEXANDER CASTILLO (VICE-PRESIDE)
- BRIANNE CASTILLO (SECRETARY)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to being "aha moments" to life in the lives of struggling learners. Light up learning is founded in love to passionately expose the light inside of every learner, and especially those that struggle with learning disabilities. Our aim is to inspire them with the knowledge that they possess instrinsic value in themselves and are more than what their grades represent. Acknowledging this, it is our mission to empower students with learning disabilities of all ages to embrace their god-given uniqueness, realize their potential, and look to the future with confidence by: 1. Providing proven and sustainable nild educational therapies (et) to break through thier limiting beliefs and cognitive processing challenges; 2. Creating and providing successful and reproducible frameworks for the delivery of these methodologies through various delivery touch points (learning centers, day schools, camps, etc.) 3. Advocating for learners and their families at local and national levels, ther
What it reported doing in 2024
Wonder academy amended it's homeschool program to address needs for middle and/or high school students, as this population appeared to have less access/time with special education programs. 1:1 educational therapy as well as individualization for attending students was prioritized. Wonder academy had 0 student enrollments; educational therapy had a total of 8 students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- 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: -16.8%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 47.19; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.6%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.2% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -13% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $42K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.