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LIGHTHOUSE FOR HOPE INC

SCOTTSDALE, AZ · EIN 811072548 · Form 990 · FY2021 · NTEE G30 · Voluntary Health Associations · Small ($100K-$1M) · www.lighthouseforhope.org
revenue
$265K
expenses
$254K
net assets
$243K
employees
3
volunteers
15
program ratio
78%
mission · from form 990

LIGHTHOUSE FOR HOPE STRIVES TO FIGHT ALONGSIDE FAMILIES EXPERIENCING (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O) (CONTINUED FROM 990 PAGE 1) THE PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, AND FINANCIAL SETBACKS CAUSED BY PEDIATRIC CANCER BY PROVIDING THEM WITH SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE FOR BASIC NECESSITIES.

profile · synthesized from sources

Lighthouse For Hope Inc provides direct financial and emotional support to families with children undergoing treatment for pediatric cancer or life-threatening blood disorders. Founded by a childhood cancer survivor, the organization offers personalized assistance including holiday gifts, birthday celebrations, retreats for young adult patients, and scholarships. Based in Arizona, it serves families referred through pediatric oncology social workers, focusing on reducing non-medical financial burdens and fostering peer support.

irs program accomplishments · form 990 part iii · fy2021

what they reported doing

Program narrative the organization filed with the IRS. Ordered by program spending.

  1. #1 primary $56K
    LIGHTHOUSE FOR HOPE'S ADOPT-A-FAMILY PROGRAM, HOLIDAYS FOR HOPE, IS ALL ABOUT PROVIDING HOPE AND LIGHT FOR THOSE FACING CHILDHOOD CANCER. CANCER IS AN EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TIME, SO WE ARE GIVING BACK TO HELP EASE THE BURDEN OF HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT PURCHASING CHRISTMAS PRESENTS!
  2. #2 $0
    ILLUMINATE RETREAT - LIGHTHOUSE FOR HOPE HOSTS A RETREAT FOR YOUNG WOMEN CANCER FIGHTERS AGES 18-25. DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, THE ILLUMINATE RETREAT WAS CANCELLED IN 2021.
named programs · 5 · from sources

what they call their work

Celebration Program
Ensures children with pediatric cancer or blood disorders and their siblings are celebrated on their birthdays with personalized gifts, wrapping supplies, and a dignified shopping experience for caregivers.
Holidays For Hope
Provides holiday gifts, household essentials, and financial assistance to families with a child in active cancer treatment, enabling them to experience the joy of the season.
Hope Families
Provides direct financial assistance and peer support opportunities to families with children undergoing treatment for pediatric cancer or blood disorders, tailored to individual needs.
Illuminate Retreat
Healing retreat for 10 young women ages 18-26 currently facing cancer or life-threatening blood disorders, offering connection, wellness workshops, and emotional support in a retreat setting.
The Be A Good Human Scholarship
Offers $500–$1,000 scholarships to pediatric cancer survivors, siblings, and parents pursuing post-secondary education in Arizona.
activities · 5 groups

what they do

  • Financial Assistance for Families 6 activities
    • Financial and Emotional Support for Families with Pediatric Cancer
      Provides direct financial assistance for everyday costs not covered by insurance and emotional peer support to families with a child diagnosed with pediatric cancer or a blood disorder through the Hope Families program.
    • Financial and Emotional Support for Families with Pediatric Cancer
      Provides direct financial assistance for everyday costs not covered by insurance and emotional peer support to families with a child diagnosed with pediatric cancer or a blood disorder through the Hope Families program.
    • Financial and emotional support for families affected by pediatric cancer or blood disorders
      Provides direct financial assistance and emotional peer support to families with children undergoing treatment for pediatric cancer or life-threatening blood disorders, including help with everyday costs not covered by insurance. The Hope Families program creates a network of peer support and has helped hundreds of families since 2015.
    • Financial and emotional support for families affected by pediatric cancer or blood disorders
      Provides direct financial assistance for everyday costs not covered by insurance and offers emotional peer support to families with children undergoing pediatric cancer treatment through the Hope Families program.
    • Financial and emotional support for families affected by pediatric cancer or blood disorders
      Provides direct financial assistance for everyday costs not covered by insurance and emotional peer support to families with children undergoing treatment for pediatric cancer or life-threatening blood disorders, including through the Hope Families program.
    • Financial and emotional support for families affected by pediatric cancer or blood disorders
      Provides direct financial assistance and emotional peer support to families with children undergoing treatment for pediatric cancer or life-threatening blood disorders, helping cover everyday costs not addressed by insurance. This includes ongoing support through the Hope Families program.
  • Therapeutic Recreation & Holiday Support for Pediatric Cancer Families 6 activities
    • Holiday Support Program
      Sponsors families facing childhood cancer by providing gifts, household essentials, and financial assistance during the holiday season through the Holidays For Hope program, aiming to sponsor 60 families annually and having supported 352 families previously.
    • Holiday Support Program
      Sponsors families facing childhood cancer by providing gifts, household essentials, and financial assistance during the holiday season through the Holidays For Hope program, aiming to support 60 families annually.
    • Holiday sponsorship program for families facing childhood cancer
      Provides holiday-specific financial assistance, gifts, and household essentials to families undergoing pediatric cancer treatment through the Holidays For Hope program. In one season, supported 352 families and aims to sponsor at least 60 families annually.
    • Holiday sponsorship program for families facing childhood cancer
      Provides gifts, household essentials, and financial assistance to families undergoing pediatric cancer treatment during the holiday season through the Holidays For Hope program; supported 352 families in one cycle and aims to sponsor 60 families annually.
    • Holiday sponsorship program for families facing childhood cancer
      Provides holiday-specific financial assistance, gifts, and household essentials to families undergoing pediatric cancer treatment through the Holidays For Hope program, having supported 352 families to date.
    • Holiday sponsorship program for families facing childhood cancer
      Provides gifts, household essentials, and financial assistance to families undergoing pediatric cancer treatment during the holiday season through the Holidays For Hope program, having supported 352 families to date.
  • Healing Retreats & Empowerment Courses for At-Risk Young Women 6 activities
    • Illuminate Retreat
      Hosts the Illuminate Retreat, a healing getaway that brings together 10 young women aged 18-26 experiencing cancer or a life-threatening blood disorder to create a network of peer support.
    • Illuminate Retreat
      Hosts the Illuminate Retreat, a healing getaway that brings together 10 young women aged 18-26 facing cancer or a life-threatening blood disorder to create a network of peer support.
    • Illuminate Retreat for young women facing cancer or blood disorders
      Hosts the Illuminate Retreat, a healing getaway for 10 young women aged 18–26 who are experiencing cancer or a life-threatening blood disorder, fostering connection and emotional support.
    • Illuminate Retreat for young women facing cancer or blood disorders
      Hosts an annual healing retreat for 10 young women aged 18–26 who are facing cancer or life-threatening blood disorders, fostering peer support and emotional wellness through the Illuminate Retreat program.
    • Illuminate Retreat for young women facing cancer or blood disorders
      Hosts the Illuminate Retreat, a healing getaway for 10 young women aged 18–26 who are experiencing cancer or a life-threatening blood disorder, fostering connection and peer support.
    • Illuminate Retreat for young women facing cancer or life-threatening blood disorders
      Hosts an annual healing retreat for 10 young women aged 18–26 who are experiencing cancer or a life-threatening blood disorder, fostering peer support and emotional well-being.
  • Targeted Scholarships for Specific Populations 6 activities
    • Post-Secondary Education Scholarships
      Awards scholarships ranging from $500 to $1,000 to survivors, siblings, and parents pursuing post-secondary education through The Be A Good Human Scholarship program.
    • Post-Secondary Education Scholarships
      Awards scholarships ranging from $500 to $1,000 to survivors, siblings, and parents pursuing post-secondary education through The Be A Good Human Scholarship program.
    • Post-secondary scholarship program for affected individuals and families
      Awards scholarships ranging from $500 to $1,000 to survivors, siblings, and parents pursuing post-secondary education through The Be A Good Human Scholarship program. Recipients include individuals who have gone on to college and contributed to research on mental health support for teen cancer patients.
    • Post-secondary scholarship program for survivors, siblings, and parents
      Awards scholarships ranging from $500 to $1,000 to survivors of pediatric cancer, siblings, and parents pursuing post-secondary education through The Be A Good Human Scholarship program, with documented support for individual recipients pursuing college degrees.
    • Post-secondary scholarship program for survivors, siblings, and parents
      Awards scholarships ranging from $500 to $1,000 to survivors of pediatric cancer, siblings, and parents pursuing post-secondary education through The Be A Good Human Scholarship program, with documented support for recipients such as Stephen Dwyer, Brennan, and Kylie.
    • Post-secondary scholarship program for survivors, siblings, and parents
      Awards scholarships ranging from $500 to $1,000 to survivors of pediatric cancer, siblings, and parents pursuing post-secondary education through The Be A Good Human Scholarship program; has enabled multiple recipients to attend college and pursue careers.
  • Uncategorized 6 activities
    • Birthday Celebration Program
      Operates the Celebration Program, providing a dignified shopping experience where parents can select birthday gifts for children facing pediatric cancer or blood disorders and their siblings, ensuring they are celebrated on their birthdays.
    • Birthday Celebration Program
      Operates a birthday celebration program (Celebration Program) for children facing pediatric cancer or blood disorders and their siblings, providing a dignified shopping experience for parents to select gifts.
    • Birthday celebration program for children with pediatric cancer and their siblings
      Operates the Celebration Program, which ensures children diagnosed with pediatric cancer or blood disorders—and their siblings—are celebrated on their birthdays through a dignified shopping experience where parents select gifts for their children.
    • Birthday celebration program for children with pediatric cancer and their siblings
      Operates the Celebration Program, which ensures children diagnosed with pediatric cancer or blood disorders, as well as their siblings, are celebrated on their birthdays through a dignified shopping experience where parents select gifts for their children.
    • Birthday celebration program for children with pediatric cancer or blood disorders
      Operates the Celebration Program, which includes a dignified shopping experience where parents select birthday gifts for their children, ensuring kids facing pediatric cancer or blood disorders—and their siblings—are celebrated on their birthdays.
    • Birthday celebration program for children with pediatric cancer or blood disorders
      Operates the Celebration Program, which ensures children with pediatric cancer or blood disorders and their siblings are celebrated on their birthdays, including through a dignified shopping experience where parents select gifts for their children.
financials · form 990 · fy2021
revenue
Total revenue$265K
Contributions & grants$264K99%
Program service revenue$00%
Investment income$700%
Other revenue$1K
expenses
Total expenses$254K
Program expenses78%
Admin / overhead13%
Fundraising10%
Salaries & benefits$54K
Grants paid out$123K
Largest expense lineFacilities
balance sheet
Total assets$245K
Cash$204K
Investments$0
Liabilities$2K
Net assets$243K
Liquid reserves9.6 mo
2 years on record · 2020–2021 · YoY revenue -9.8%
leadership · form 990 part vii · fy2021

who runs it

paid leadership · 1
NameTitleHours/wkCompensation
HANNAH COBLEY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 40 $42K
board members · 7
  • ALLISON PETERS — SECRETARY
  • CHELSEA HEMMONS — PRESIDENT
  • CRAIG COBLEY — DIRECTOR
  • GUERIC NKUNZIMANA — DIRECTOR
  • HEATHER CRABTREE — DIRECTOR
  • NICK DEREGIS — DIRECTOR
  • RICK DWYER — VICE PRESIDENT
relationships · 10

who they work with

  • Colten Cowell Foundation Partner — Foundation partner supporting Lighthouse For Hope
  • Fred B. Snite Foundation Partner — Foundation partner supporting Lighthouse For Hope
  • Haehn Foundation Partner — Foundation partner supporting Lighthouse For Hope
  • Hannah Cobley Partner — Founder and Executive Director of Lighthouse For Hope, whose personal cancer journey inspired the organization's creation.
  • Kuhle Family Foundation Partner — Foundation partner supporting Lighthouse For Hope
  • Russ Lyon Charitable Fund Partner — Foundation partner supporting Lighthouse For Hope
  • Rylee & Cru Foundation Partner — Foundation partner supporting Lighthouse For Hope
  • Seattle Children’s Hospital Partner — Kylie was treated there for relapse and helped design studies.
  • The Dwyer Family Partner — Helps make the scholarship possible.
  • The Virginia G. Piper Foundation Partner — Foundation partner supporting Lighthouse For Hope