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Financials
The Light House has been providing services to the Kansas City area for more than 23 years. We have been blessed in the recent years with your gifts of service and resources. We cannot operate without the support from donors, organizations and churches. We thank you!
Our goal in the next few years is to increase these donations by $200,000 each year. We have great plans for the Light House and it is time to increase our budget to implement these plans. This past year, we have watched our Outreach Program grow to include more than 20 young mothers each week. We have expectations that this program will continue to grow and hope to include a component specifically for the fathers of the babies. We hope to add one-on-one case management and mental health counseling as part of this program, as well. In addition, we want to continue updating our maternity home. We have been blessed this year to have volunteers come and refurbish areas. (View photos of our Maternity Home). We would appreciate new furniture and further updates to several of our bedrooms. Our house is staying full with approximately 6-8 girls at a time.
Where does your money go?
Did you know that it costs $6,000 to house one girl for the duration of her stay?
- Staff—We operate much like a hospital—we are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and have to be staffed all 24 hours a day. This accumulates a lot of staff hours.
- Transportation—We drive the women to doctor’s appointments and this year alone we provided more than 5,900 miles of transportation. The rising gas prices alone are having an impact on our daily operations. We pay approximately $5,000 a year in transportation expenses.
- Housing—Because we service an actual home, the expenses are much like that of your own housing expenses—we pay over $8,000 a year in utilities alone. We have over $90,000 remaining on our mortgage. In addition, last year alone, we paid more than $11,000 in repairs and maintenance.
- Food—We feed between five and ten girls three hot meals a day, costing more than $8,000 a year in food expenses.
- Supplies—We pay approximately $10,000 a year on supplies for our programs and our administrative offices.
- Administrative Costs—we have a full time staff of 5 and part time staff of 20 employees. Our administrative costs are approximately $20,000.
