Lighthouse Environmental Programs
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911678822
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Coupeville, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3606781186
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $103,705
- Expenses
- $95,240
- Assets
- $528,328
- Liabilities
- $45,467
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICK BLANK (President)
- ELLEN DICKEY (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- RICK BLANK (President)
- SCOTT GALBREAITH (Secretary)
- John Welsch (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The education of the general public about Island County's cultural and environmental heritage as well as the protection of the environment.For program services related to Sound Water Stewards, Other Washington Lighthouses, Other Island County environmental organizations, and Washington State Parks, please see Schedule O.
What it reported doing in 2025
LIGHTHOUSE LICENSE PLATE PROJECTIncome for this program comes from the State of Washington special license plate program. Grants from this program are made to:1) Sound Water Stewards, which is an independent 501(c)(3) organization of trained volunteers working in and around Island County for a healthy sustainable Puget Sound environment through education, community outreach, stewardship, and citizen resource. 2) Other Washington lighthouses which are also 501(c)(3) and are operated by volunteers to fund repairs and improvements to make their facilities more available to the public.3) Other Island County environmental organizations to help fund their work to educate and benefit the environment.4) Washington State Parks, in order to support Fort Casey State Park programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 73% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 82% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.1%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 97.4%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 96.1%; rating input score 96; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.2%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.55; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.1% of revenue deployed · 97.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $93K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 18 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Independent members within voting members did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.