Sonlight Children's Foundation

Legal name: Sonlight Children's Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
825330292
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Aberdeen, SD, USA
Phone
6052164701
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Religion Related N.E.C.
Affiliation
Religious (unspecified)

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$58,680
Expenses
$59,514
Assets
$6,560
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Bryon Itterman (President)
  • Dennis Batteen (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Bryon Itterman (President)
  • Dennis Batteen (Vice President)
  • Rodney Johnson (Secretary/Treasurer)

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

At the Sonlight Children's Foundation our goal is to show the love of Jesus to those around us, locally and globally. Through missions we joyfully serve alongside and partner with churches and the communities we serve to spread the Gospel in Peru. We're trusting God to use Sonlight Children's Foundation to help people around the world find and follow Jesus!

What it reported doing in 2025

The Organization provided funds that supported children's ministry programs. A grant was provided to New Life Fellowship for their Peru Mission program. A grant was also provided the Organization to the Fundacion Colegio Tesopaco A.C. (the Tesopaco School Foundation) in Mexico. The school offers an academically rigorous, Christian education to students in and around the mountainous region of Tesopaco, Sonora Mexico. The grant proceeds were used for school building improvements and teacher compensation.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 93
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 93%; rating input score 93
  • Program expense ratio: 91.7%; rating input score 92

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.4%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -20.3% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -19.2% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 93% of revenue deployed · 91.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $55K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.