Lighthouse Pregnancy Resource Center Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Lighthouse operated four centers full time in 2024 with a staff up to 32, and over 150 volunteers who donated a total of 9,757 hours of service. The fourth center, which serves as lighthouse's headquarters, opened in December 2020. A group program,"Birth of a Family", takes place here to guide parents toward marriage and stronger families. The Center's free services fall into three categories: prevention, intervention and restoration. Intervention, the primary focus, includes reaching out to those who are facing unexpected pregnancies with compassionate support to make life choices possible, and ensure parents are equipped to care for their newborns. The Center's support typically begins with an ultrasound to medically confirm pregnancy and provide parents with a loving first look at their unborn child.INTERVENTION: In 2024, Lighthouse provided 1,178 ultrasounds, along with emotional, spiritual, and material support to parents preparing to welcome a newborn. Lighthouse celebrated the births of over 674 babies to moms they served, and the Center's ongoung parenting and relationship mentoring assisted 484 parents who were alone, young, under-resourced or uninsured as they faced a challenging pregnancy. Those coming regularly to become well-prepared parents "earned" points to redeem in the Center's PREP Shoppe for baby care essentials such as diapers and wipes, clothing, and cribs. This ongoing support led to a total of 8,218 individual appointments. Most of these were with women and men who found lighthouse on the Internet or by word of mouth, with over 2,906 individuals reaching out to us through "help" calls, texts or emails. Nearly half of all our services are provided in spanish.Our Paterson Center- which opened in 2015 to serve our state's third largest and one of its most needy cities- features two strategic collaborations. The first is with RENEW Life Center, a nonprofit that subleases space with Lighthouse in Paterson to extend additional life-transforming support that helps parents overcome generational poverty. Since 2015, over 154 women and men have graduated from RENEW's "Getting Ahead and Jobs for Life" programs and have obtained significant employment or continued their education. Our shared goal for the Center is to help parents thrive-not just survive-after choosing life for their children. Another collaborative program is YoungLives Greater Paterson, an outreach that shares the hope of the gospel and practical help with teen moms. In partnership with Young Life, Lighthouse hosts pregnant and parenting teens once a month for a youth group-like Club, and for mentoring and other supportive activities. Our group has helped birth two other groups in the Tri-State area. Fathers are not forgotten as we have one full-time male staffer and a number of faithful male volunteers to mentor and encourage men to become involved, responsible dads. The Center's Hackensack location is utilized up to 5 days a week, serving a similar number of men and women to Paterson, but in half the space! Lighthouse also provides pregnancy confirmation, parenting and STD services in Wayne using donated professional office space on Hamburg Turnpike.PREVENTION: Lighthouse provides free screening for two Bacterial STDS (Chlamydia and gonorrhea) that are most prevalent among young adults. In addition to providing sexual health and sexual integrity counsel on-site, the Center's REALife Relationship and Love Training program provided interactive presentations in local schools and church youth groups, guiding over 2,700 students to healthier relationships.RESTORATION: Pregnancy loss support, and abortion recovery care groups and individual peer counseling sessions helped women and men of all ages to heal emotionally and spiritually from past abortions. In 2024, 60 individuals benefited from this support and from our new memorial wall for the unborn.NEXT STEPS: Lighthouse has been utilizing all of its new Hawthorne headquarters, including a second-floo

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 80.6%; rating input score 81
• Program expense ratio: 80.5%; rating input score 80
• Fundraising efficiency: $6.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 0.5%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.95; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 4.6%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 20.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings