Lighthouse Academies
Legal name: Lighthouse Academies Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200332375
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Land O Lakes, FL, US
- Phone
- 813-345-0856
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $297,564
- Expenses
- $779,444
- Assets
- $1,843,064
- Liabilities
- $32,396
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MONICA RIVERA (PRESIDENT & CEO)
People named in this filing
- BRIA BASS (DIRECTOR)
- DANIEL WHITE (TREASURER)
- MONICA RIVERA (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To serve, not to sell, by providing tailored services that give schools full control of their budget and direct funds back to where they matter most…your students.
What it reported doing in 2024
At lighthouse academies, we exist to ensure that all students have innovative choices when it comes to education. We do this by partnering with visionary schools nationwide, customizing solutions to help schools do what they do bestter.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 62% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 63.5%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 75%; rating input score 75; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -161.9%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.36; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -18.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 63.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $495K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.