Lighthouse for Humanity
Legal name: Lighthouse for Humanity Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461424902
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2020
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020
- Location
- Bloomfield, CT, US
- Phone
- (860) 269-LH4H or (860) 269-5444
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Islam
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $149,271
- Expenses
- $157,074
- Assets
- $460,767
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MUHAMMED FURKAN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MUAMMER AVCI (TREASURER)
- HALIT DOGAN (SECRETARY)
- MUHAMMED FURKAN (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. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Lighthouse for Humanity is a non-profit organization committed to serve all people who seek to understand the meaning of life, the universe and the individual by intellectual, social and religious activities. 1. To provide spiritual guidance to people through intellectual and spiritual gatherings; 2. To serve all people who are seeking to understand the meaning of life, the universe and the individual through teachings of the Qur’an, Sunnah (practice of the Prophet) and the Risale-i-Nur (qur’anic commentary); and 3. To engage, subject to the foregoing limitations and any further limitations set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation, in any lawful act or activity for which a corporation may be organized under Section 33-264A concerning Connecticut Religious Corporations.
What it reported doing in 2020
Lighthouse for Humanity is a non-profit organization committed to serve all people who seek to understant the meaning of life, the unicerse and the indinicual by intelletual, social and religious activitie. for thie purpose, the organization organizes series of meetings and forums.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.2%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.93; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 36.5% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported · 0 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $157K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2012 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.