- 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.
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HOUSTON LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION INC
EIN 74-1618607
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LIGHTHOUSE LIVING CENTERS INCORPORATED
EIN 76-0098353
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LIGHTHOUSE LIVING CENTERS NO 2 INCORPORATED
EIN 76-0208602
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.
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.
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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
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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
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Omer Malik
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Michael McCulloch
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Merle Petty
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Mazher Poonawala
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2023
- Revenue
- $4,162,481
- Expenses
- $5,267,494
- Contributions
- $584,114
- Grants paid
- $0
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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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $5,211,128
- Expenses
- $4,918,432
- Assets (EOY)
- $28,755,418
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $5,413,103
- Expenses
- $5,545,047
- Assets (EOY)
- $28,697,781
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,886,840
- Expenses
- $6,367,703
- Assets (EOY)
- $29,679,372
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $22,928,693
- Expenses
- $7,452,036
- Assets (EOY)
- $30,155,483
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $5,113,826
- Expenses
- $7,360,109
- Assets (EOY)
- $15,543,472
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $15,112,771
- Expenses
- $7,585,865
- Assets (EOY)
- $17,124,268
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $15,112,771
- Expenses
- $7,585,865
- Assets (EOY)
- $17,124,268
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $7,029,742
- Expenses
- $7,344,096
- Assets (EOY)
- $10,165,548
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $7,150,165
- Expenses
- $7,140,973
- Assets (EOY)
- $9,969,689
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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
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2024 PROGRAM SUPPORT
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CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA
$18,583
2023 CHARITABLE DONATION
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CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA
$14,239
2022 CHARITABLE DONATION
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2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
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2024 CHARITABLE DONATION
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2023 General operations
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
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Houston Lighthouse Foundation Inc
501(c)(3) · Support Lighthouse for the Blind of Houston · TX · controlled entity
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501(c)(3) · Operate HUD Sec. 202 Housing Project · TX · controlled entity
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Lighthouse Living Centers No 2 Inc
501(c)(3) · Operate HUD Sec. 202 Housing Project · TX · controlled entity
Declared as related by
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LIGHTHOUSE LIVING CENTERS INCORPORATED
On its 2024 return
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HOUSTON LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION INC
On its 2024 return
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LIGHTHOUSE LIVING CENTERS NO 2 INCORPORATED
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.