Lighthouse Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
341831928
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Strongsville, OH, USA
Phone
2162794119
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$58,724
Expenses
$37,567
Assets
$230,577
Liabilities
$748

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

People named in this filing

  • HAROLD TYREMAN (EXECUTIVE DI)
  • STEVE WHITE (TREASURER)
  • NICK ARTMAN (TRUSTEE)

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

Our mission is to equip and empower the kids of the central neighborhood of cleveland with the sources and opportunities to reach their potential.

What it reported doing in 2025

The lighthouse heaventrain church-on-wheels bus completed its 44th year in 2025. We had over 9,000 visits from children and caregivers during the 27 saturdays we were out from from may through december. The bus operates in cleveland's central public housing neighborhoods. The emphasis is on early social development, family commitment and religious education. A healthy lunch is provided in addition to interacting with the children and their caregivers. On the last outing of the year, hot meals and christmas presents are given to all who come to the bus which is parked in five different locations near the public housing neighborhoods. Over 500 christmas presents were purchased and handed out to kids and caregivers.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 89% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 67
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 75
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 58%; rating input score 58
  • Program expense ratio: 82.5%; rating input score 82

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 36%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.14; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -15.8% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -9.3% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 58% of revenue deployed · 82.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $31K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
  • Review — Grant Readiness: SAM / OFAC restrictions: this organization returned a name match close enough to need a human check before a grant is released.