Lighthouse World Missions
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271077712
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Gainesville, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5715486488
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $137,383
- Expenses
- $65,728
- Assets
- $98,983
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL GAITONDE (DIRECTOR)
- EMILY GAITONDE (DIRECTOR)
- DEANNA CARPENTER (DIRECTOR)
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
Lighthouse world missions partners with ministries and missionaries to provide support and assistance both in their community and around the world.lighthouse world missions exists to fulfill the great commission given to us by jesus christ himself, first by meeting the physical needs of the lost and then presenting them with the gospel of grace that will give them everlasting life. We provide help by supplying materials for education, construction projects, conducting vacation bible schools, and facilitating men's and women's bible studies in their respective communities. This is accomplished by mobilizing teams and supplies from the united states to travel abroad and lend assistance.
What it reported doing in 2025
To provide help by supplying materials for education, construction projects, conducting vacation bible schools, and facilitating men's and women's bible studies in their respective communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 81
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 52.2%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.51; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 53.7% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.