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LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND OF HOUSTON

EIN 74-1146781 HOUSTON, TX

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Revenue 2023
$4,162,481
Expenses 2023
$5,267,494

Program services were 75.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
G41Z
Classification
1000
Street
3602 W DALLAS ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

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.

  • 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

  • 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.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • David Donat

    Chair

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

    Chair-Elect, Secretary

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

    Finance Chair, Treasurer

    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
  • Cody Biller

    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
  • 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
  • Alexis Smith

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,162,481
    Expenses
    $5,267,494
    Contributions
    $584,114
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,659,282
    Expenses
    $5,211,110
    Contributions
    $382,821
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,211,128
    Expenses
    $4,918,432
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,755,418
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,413,103
    Expenses
    $5,545,047
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,697,781
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,886,840
    Expenses
    $6,367,703
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,679,372
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $22,928,693
    Expenses
    $7,452,036
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,155,483
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,113,826
    Expenses
    $7,360,109
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,543,472
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,112,771
    Expenses
    $7,585,865
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,124,268
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,112,771
    Expenses
    $7,585,865
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,124,268
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,029,742
    Expenses
    $7,344,096
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,165,548
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,150,165
    Expenses
    $7,140,973
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,969,689
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,940,955
    Expenses
    $7,048,548
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,707,286

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2023 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.