Lighthouse Community Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
840501271
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Othello, WA, USA
Phone
5099899375
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development – Religious Leadership

Reported finances

Revenue
$91,424
Expenses
$75,963
Assets
$26,485
Liabilities
$2,915

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

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Samuel Garza (President)

People named in this filing

  • Samuel Garza (President)

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

The mission of lighthouse community center (lcc) is to provide a place in our community where attendees will encounter meaningful experiences that will prepare them to chase and accomplish their dreams for a better tomorrow.

What it reported doing in 2025

- provided mentoring and intervention services to at risk youth. - administered warn risk evaluations. - refered targeted youth to alternative activities for the purpose of providing support and encouraging a disassociation from gangs and creating connections with positive peer influences. - developed and implemented a mentoring program for at risk youth with the goal of diverting them from gang-related activity and affiliations. - served as a liaison between the school, home, law enforcement and/or other community organizations to facilitate communication between participants.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

SUPPORTED - 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: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73.8%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 88.8%; rating input score 89

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 16.9%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -39.6% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -23.6% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 66.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 73.8% of revenue deployed · 88.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $67K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.