LightUp Your World Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 845059481
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Marlton, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 2677016181
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Housing Expense Reduction Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,755,309
- Expenses
- $3,271,253
- Assets
- $1,166,517
- Liabilities
- $11,200
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jennifer Aigbodion (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Dr Moses Tucker (Director Operations & Fina): $98,500 total reported compensation
- Leke Adekitan (Director & Project Manager): $72,823 total reported compensation
- Jennifer Aigbodion (Executive Director): $52,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is rooted in the belief that every household deserves a safe and sustainable environment, free from financial burdens that threaten their well-being. Through strategic partnerships, advocacy, and compassionate outreach, we light up the lives of those in need.
What it reported doing in 2024
LightUp Your World Inc. proudly recognizes a significant milestone in advancing its mission to serve communities across New Jersey. Through LIHEAP, USF, and LEAD programs, the organization has successfully provided critical support to over 16,000 households. This achievement underscores our continued commitment to assisting individuals and families facing financial hardship in accessing essential services, including home energy assistance and lead remediation and abatement resources.Key accomplishments for the year ended June 30, 2025, include: Energy AssistanceCamden County: Assisted 3908 households with energy assistance fundingBurlington County: Assisted 5350 households with energy assistance fundingGloucester County: Assisted 3888 households with energy assistance fundingSalem County: Assisted 560 households with energy assistance fundingCumberland County: Assisted 1,300 households with energy assistance fundingBergen County: Assisted 3895 households with energy assistance fundingLead Remediation and AbatementCamden County: Completed interim control and abatement services for 105 householdsBurlington County: Completed interim control and abatement services for 97 householdsOcean County: Completed interim control and abatement services for 48 households
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 18
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93.7%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $48.6 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -86.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.3%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 39.6% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -87.4% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -78.4% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $98K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.