LightShine International Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232676644
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2007
- Location
- Mount Joy, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7172836448
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $494,988
- Expenses
- $397,940
- Assets
- $599,531
- Liabilities
- $2,066
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- THOMAS D DENLINGER (VICE CHAIR): $20,805 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Vision – Values _**Mission Statement**_ Our purpose is to come alongside local churches, Bible camps and various ministries all over Alaska – sending mission teams and providing resources that will help them make passionate followers of Jesus Christ. _**Mission Statement**_ Our purpose is to come alongside local churches, Bible camps and various ministries all over Alaska – sending mission teams and providing resources that will help them make passionate followers of Jesus Christ. _**Vision Statement**_.
What it reported doing in 2024
Christian evangelism and ministries: volunteers are sent to Alaska to support outreach efforts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 74% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.3%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 96.1%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: $41.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.6%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.51; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 77.3% of revenue deployed · 96.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $383K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $21K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.