Form 990 for tax year 2023
Filed by LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND OF HOUSTON.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $4,162,481
- Total expenses
- $5,267,494
- Contributions and grants received
- $584,114
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $2,954,323
- Investment income
- $482,647
- Other revenue
- $141,397
- Total assets, end of year
- $24,458,338
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $573,690
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $23,884,648
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $3,990,141
- Management and general expenses
- $1,007,992
- Fundraising expenses
- $269,361
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $3,990,141
Program services were 75.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1c · Fundraising events
$186,554
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$397,560
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2a · Program service revenue: Service contract fees
total $2,220,896 · related or exempt $2,220,896
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2b · Program service revenue: Government service fees
total $465,759 · related or exempt $465,759
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2c · Program service revenue: Client fees, other revenue
total $221,438 · related or exempt $221,438
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2d · Program service revenue: Administrative service fees
total $46,230 · related or exempt $46,230
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3 · Investment income
total $65,604 · excluded $65,604
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7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory
other assets $514,723
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7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses
other assets $97,680
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7c · Gain or loss
other assets $417,043
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $417,043 · excluded $417,043
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8a · Fundraising events: gross income
$34,702
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8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c
$186,554
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8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses
$95,453
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total -$60,751 · excluded -$60,751
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10a · Gross sales of inventory
$1,173,659
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10b · Cost of goods sold
$971,511
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10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $202,148 · related or exempt $202,148
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $423,217 · program services $164,435 · management and general $143,506 · fundraising $115,276
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $2,443,546 · program services $1,991,411 · management and general $358,694 · fundraising $93,441
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $61,930 · program services $44,815 · management and general $15,086 · fundraising $2,029
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $389,950 · program services $340,690 · management and general $42,500 · fundraising $6,760
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $246,035 · program services $189,752 · management and general $41,862 · fundraising $14,421
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11b · Fees: legal
total $4,145 · management and general $4,145
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $62,660 · management and general $62,660
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11g · Fees: other
total $270,153 · program services $209,342 · management and general $56,673 · fundraising $4,138
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13 · Office expenses
total $177,248 · program services $91,534 · management and general $70,057 · fundraising $15,657
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14 · Information technology
total $693 · program services $693
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16 · Occupancy
total $453,405 · program services $389,243 · management and general $49,434 · fundraising $14,728
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $10,404 · program services $2,656 · management and general $7,477 · fundraising $271
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $414,861 · program services $272,325 · management and general $142,536
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23 · Insurance
total $128,297 · program services $114,495 · management and general $11,557 · fundraising $2,245
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24a · Other expenses: Program supplies
total $85,424 · program services $85,424
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24b · Other expenses: NIB commissions
total $62,788 · program services $62,788
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24c · Other expenses: Transportation
total $30,767 · program services $29,053 · management and general $1,335 · fundraising $379
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24d · Other expenses: Maintenance
total $1,971 · program services $1,485 · management and general $470 · fundraising $16
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $873 · end of year $1,675
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $741,507 · end of year $1,254,799
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $3,648 · end of year $3,846
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $667,155 · end of year $691,049
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
beginning of year $257,228 · end of year $220,205
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $43,464 · end of year $58,655
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$17,405,013
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$6,207,983
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $11,340,595 · end of year $11,197,030
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15 · Other assets
beginning of year $12,528,859 · end of year $11,031,079
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $341,140 · end of year $360,274
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19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $21,000 · end of year $28,500
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25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $231,528 · end of year $184,916
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $24,939,658 · end of year $23,874,648
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $50,003 · end of year $10,000
Mission and programs · 2023
Mission
The Lighthouse of Houston provides services that identify and develop the individual strengths and needs of each person with visual disabilities so they may reach their full potential, becoming independent members of society.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Assist people who are blind and visually impaired in becoming independent members of society.
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Community Programs and Health Services provided over 12,000 services to blind or low vision clients. These programs and services included a low vision rehabilitation clinic, behavioral health, multi-care day center activities, youth programs, volunteers/client services, technology evaluation and education, diabetes education, apartment living, and information and referral services. These programs and services help clients identify and develop individual strengths and needs to assist in each client reaching their full emotional, social and educational potential.
Expenses $2,437,705 · Revenue $935,575
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The Lighthouse of Houston offers three premium business service lines, call/contact centers, document management and kitting/packaging that focuses on creating jobs for people who are blind or low vision. Service contracts are secured from Federal, State, and commercial opportunities. On-the-job training and employment includes customer service representatives, switchboard operators, document management clerks, mail sorting, virtual mailroom clerks, medical transcriptionists and kitting, packaging and fulfillment jobs. Fifty-three percent of the workforce is blind or low vision and provides direct labor to the contracts secured.
Expenses $1,552,436 · Revenue $2,220,896
As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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David Donat
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 3 related
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Kim Colburn
Chair-Elect, Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 3 related
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Chris Reinecker
Finance Chair, Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 3 related
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Erin Applegate
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Cope Bailey
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Caitlin Bakhtiary
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Cody Biller
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Bruce Gourd
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 3 related
-
Vivecca Hartman
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Lonnie Knowles
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Omer Malik
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Michael McCulloch
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Merle Petty
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Mazher Poonawala
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Jeffrey Smith
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 3 related
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Alexis Smith
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Ruhi Soni
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Christine Stevenson
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 3 related
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Michael Twa
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Doug Yeager
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 3 related
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Chelean Zander
VP Programs
- Total calculated
- $152,646
- From this org
- $144,546
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $8,100
- Hours/week
- 40 + 3 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $144,546
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $8,100
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $152,646
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Daniel Williams
VP Operations (thru 10/23)
- Total calculated
- $136,989
- From this org
- $119,840
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $17,149
- Hours/week
- 40 + 3 related
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Jenna Dhayer
President
- Total calculated
- $200,755
- From this org
- $184,439
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $16,316
- Hours/week
- 40 + 3 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $184,439
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $4,985
- Nontaxable benefits
- $11,331
- Filer's total
- $200,755
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Terry Vaughn Jr
VP Operations (as of 11/23)
- Total calculated
- $15,058
- From this org
- $15,058
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40 + 3 related
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
- 3 · Compensation committee
- 3 · Independent compensation consultant
- 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
- 3 · Written employment contract
- 3 · Compensation survey or study
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
Answered no
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Related organizations on this return
Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
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Houston Lighthouse Foundation Inc
501(c)(3) · Support Lighthouse for the Blind of Houston · TX · controlled entity
Directly controlled by Lighthouse For the Blind of Houston Inc
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501(c)(3) · Operate HUD Sec. 202 Housing Project · TX · controlled entity
Directly controlled by Lighthouse For the Blind of Houston Inc
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Lighthouse Living Centers No 2 Inc
501(c)(3) · Operate HUD Sec. 202 Housing Project · TX · controlled entity
Directly controlled by Lighthouse For the Blind of Houston Inc
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2023
- Filed
- 13 May 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2023v6.0
- Source object
- 202511339349306941
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