Lights 4 Hope Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
824213553
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022
Location
Greenacres, FL, USA
Phone
5615715721
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$51,300
Expenses
$41,055
Assets
$105,140
Liabilities
$95

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JASON WILSON (PRESIDENT, TREASURER, DIRE)
  • RUDY KERKERIAN (VICE PRESIDENT, DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • JASON WILSON (PRESIDENT, TREASURER, DIRE): $75 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Lights 4 hope, inc. Is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization created to help bring happiness and hope to those in need, especially during the holiday season. To try and bring happiness, joy, and most of all hope, the organization provides goods, services, and/or funds to children, families, and those in need as well as to other organizations dedicated to helping those less fortunate. The organization also provides holiday gifts and decorations to children and families in need. The organization's focus is to help local families whose child is suffering from terminal illness or from a life changing physical change.

What it reported doing in 2025

Lights 4 hope, inc. Is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization created to help bring happiness and hope to those in need, especially during the holiday season. To try and bring happiness, joy, and most of all hope, the organization provides goods, services, and/or funds to children, families, and those in need. The organization also provides holiday gifts and decorations to children and families in need.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 94% of its reported program spending out as grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 51
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 50
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 49.8%; rating input score 50
  • Program expense ratio: 62.2%; rating input score 62
  • Fundraising efficiency: $2.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th 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: 98.3%; rating input score 98; 60th 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: 20%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.56; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 34.4% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 29.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 49.8% of revenue deployed · 62.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $26K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $75 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 26/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.