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← LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND OF HOUSTON

Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND OF HOUSTON.

Totals

Total revenue
$3,659,282
Total expenses
$5,211,110
Contributions and grants received
$382,821
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$3,168,242
Investment income
$16,749
Other revenue
$91,470
Total assets, end of year
$25,583,329
Total liabilities, end of year
$593,668
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$24,989,661
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$4,167,166
Management and general expenses
$880,415
Fundraising expenses
$163,529
Program service expenses (Part III)
$4,167,166

Program services were 80.0% 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.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $181,942

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $200,879

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Service contract fees

    total $2,034,411 · related or exempt $2,034,411

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Government service fees

    total $796,033 · related or exempt $796,033

  • 2c · Program service revenue: Client fees, other revenue

    total $292,268 · related or exempt $292,268

  • 2d · Program service revenue: Administrative service fees

    total $45,530 · related or exempt $45,530

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $16,749 · excluded $16,749

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $34,702

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $181,942

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $88,825

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$54,123 · excluded -$54,123

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $1,449,631

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $1,304,038

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $145,593 · related or exempt $145,593

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $496,382 · program services $300,103 · management and general $133,955 · fundraising $62,324

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $2,328,291 · program services $1,951,963 · management and general $311,463 · fundraising $64,865

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $51,735 · program services $43,048 · management and general $6,921 · fundraising $1,766

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $367,946 · program services $336,318 · management and general $31,628

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $244,954 · program services $202,926 · management and general $32,967 · fundraising $9,061

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $12,432 · management and general $12,432

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $55,002 · management and general $55,002

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $285,212 · program services $238,410 · management and general $45,453 · fundraising $1,349

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $157,157 · program services $89,928 · management and general $55,757 · fundraising $11,472

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $3,578 · program services $3,503 · management and general $75

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $406,069 · program services $357,517 · management and general $38,672 · fundraising $9,880

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $12,718 · program services $2,399 · management and general $9,819 · fundraising $500

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $349,181 · program services $220,616 · management and general $128,565

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $114,718 · program services $110,189 · management and general $2,627 · fundraising $1,902

  • 24a · Other expenses: Program supplies

    total $106,177 · program services $106,177

  • 24b · Other expenses: Uncollectible amounts

    total $101,138 · program services $88,070 · management and general $13,068

  • 24c · Other expenses: Transportation

    total $57,171 · program services $55,288 · management and general $1,738 · fundraising $145

  • 24d · Other expenses: NIB commissions

    total $51,108 · program services $51,108

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $10,141 · program services $9,603 · management and general $273 · fundraising $265

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $2,075 · end of year $873

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $657,234 · end of year $741,507

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $50,000 · end of year $3,648

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $747,807 · end of year $667,155

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $100,793 · end of year $257,228

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $62,381 · end of year $43,464

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $17,143,077

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $5,802,482

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $11,421,098 · end of year $11,340,595

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $15,714,030 · end of year $12,528,859

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $391,101 · end of year $341,140

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $122,828 · end of year $21,000

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $231,528

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $28,181,486 · end of year $24,939,658

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $60,003 · end of year $50,003

Mission and programs · 2022

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.

  • 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, deaf/blind assisted living, 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 $2,004,484 · Revenue $1,279,424

  • 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 $2,162,682 · Revenue $2,034,411

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • David Donat

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 3 related
  • Kim Colburn

    Vice Chair, Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 3 related
  • Chris Reinecker

    Finance Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 3 related
  • Erin Applegate

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Cope Bailey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Caitlin Bakhtiary

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • LA Beck

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Cody Biller

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Ashok K Garg

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Bruce Gourd

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 3 related
  • Vivecca Hartman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Victoria Hillard

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Lonnie Knowles

    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
  • Ruhi Soni

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Christine Stevenson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 3 related
  • Michael Twa

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Doug Yeager

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 3 related
  • Jenna Dhayer

    President

    Total calculated
    $192,660
    From this org
    $168,447
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,213
    Hours/week
    40 + 3 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $149,247
    Bonus
    $19,200
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $10,487
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,726
    Filer's total
    $192,660
  • Daniel Williams

    VP Operations

    Total calculated
    $124,318
    From this org
    $103,925
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,393
    Hours/week
    40 + 3 related
  • Chelean Zander

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $145,530
    From this org
    $129,104
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,426
    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.

  • 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

  • Lighthouse Living Centers Inc

    501(c)(3) · Operate HUD Sec. 202 Housing Project · TX · controlled entity

    Directly controlled by Lighthouse For the Blind of Houston Inc

  • 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
2022
Filed
14 May 2024
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202411359349312706

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