Thrive Lights
Legal name: Thrive Lights USA Corp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872814151
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Oct 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7863031578
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LARRY REED (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- MARTIN BURT (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LARRY REED (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- STANLEY ONUOHA (BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIREC)
- MARTIN BURT (PRESIDENT)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Thrive Lights is the US leader for the Global Stoplight movement, a partnership of more than 850 organizations that utilize the Stoplight self-assessment tool and methodology to support people on their pathways to thriving.
What it reported doing in 2025
The foundation is a non-profit, non-governmental organization established with the primary objective of promoting social development, defending human dignity, and contributing to the eradication of poverty worldwide. Its financial resources are derived from donations made by individuals and corporate entities committed to supporting its mission. All funds are allocated exclusively to activities aligned with the foundation's purpose, including the organization of educational and informational meetings, the implementation of development programs, and the creation and distribution of literature related to its objectives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 80%; rating input score 80; 2nd 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: Limited
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.