World-Wide Lighthouse Missions Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 061402089
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Manchester, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8606454141
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $494,720
- Expenses
- $588,105
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Adrienne Lautenbach (President)
- Rev Melvin Sanchez (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Adrienne Lautenbach (President): $54,300 total reported compensation
- Ben Satagaj (Treasurer): $44,936 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the world-wide lighthouse missions is to furnish support to persons in need, throught the world, and attempt to make a difference in the lives of persons who, with support and training, can reach a better way of life and a greater degree of
What it reported doing in 2024
Supplies schools, churches and human service organizations with materials and aid. Sponsored feeding programs. Shipped and provided relief aid to those in need, both at home and abroad, without discrimination.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 43% for direct work, and 57% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 62
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.4%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 73.5%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $18.58 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 86.7%; rating input score 87; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 80.4%; rating input score 80; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 20th 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: Pass
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -18.9%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.9%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.4% of revenue deployed · 73.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 8 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $432K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $54K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 26 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.