Pillars of Light and Love
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471567953
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Trappe, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4848541162
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $160,804
- Expenses
- $140,860
- Assets
- $434,327
- Liabilities
- $5,234
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KATHY OPPERMAN (President)
People named in this filing
- PATRICIA BARTH (Director)
- JENNIFER SEVILLE (Director)
- RENEE GRAFSTROM (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Empowering youth and adults ages 5 and up, including those with special needs, to reduce stress, have strong self-esteem, overcome anxiety, depression and bullying.
What it reported doing in 2024
Stress and life management for all ages to teach children, teens, and adults to reduce stress, have strong self-esteem, overcome anxiety and depression, build confidence, and achieve better coping techniques, positive communication skills, and healthy relationships. A new restaurant was opened in mid november 2022 named so much to give inclusive cafe. The restaurant's mission is to provide a welcoming and inclusive experience to empower all people, including those with disabilities and their families, to have equal opportunities to work, dine, socialize, volunteer and learn. In july 2023 a studio was opened to enrich the lives of those with disabilities through art, music, movement, learning, socializing, creating independence and fun through various classes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 67% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - 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: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 27%; rating input score 27
- Program expense ratio: 70.2%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.4%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.08; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 59.4% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.7% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 34.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 27% of revenue deployed · 70.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $99K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.