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LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND BLIND INC

EIN 59-2311666 NEW PRT RCHY, FL

Revenue 2023
$1,817,990
Expenses 2023
$1,400,961

Program services were 65.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P860
Classification
1000
Street
9130 RIDGE RD

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).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

THE MISSION OF THE LIGHTHOUSE IS TO EDUCATE, EMPOWER AND EMPLOY RESIDENTS OF PASCO, HERNANDO AND CITRUS, FL COUNTIES WHO ARE VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND BLIND.

  • 1,364 PEOPLE WHO ARE VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND BLIND AND THEIR FAMILIES WERE SERVED THIS YEAR FROM LIGHTHOUSE PROGRAMS. OUR INDEPENDENT LIVING ADULT PROGRAM PROVIDED REHABILITATION INSTRUCTION AND GUIDANCE THAT HELPED 286 INDIVIDUALS TO ACQUIRE SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE TO MANAGE THEIR LIVES AS ADULTS TO LIVE MORE INDEPENDENTLY IN THEIR HOMES AND COMMUNITIES WITH A MAXIMUM DEGREE OF SELF-DIRECTION. VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION PROVIDED JOB PREPAREDNESS TRAINING FOR 69 VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADULTS INCLUDING USE OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND COMPUTERS. TRANSITION PROGRAMS PROVIDE YEAR ROUND TRAINING AND SERVICES TO TEENAGERS TO PREPARE THEM FOR THE TRANSITION FROM HIGHSCHOOL TO THE WORK FORCE OR COLLEGE. EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS ENHANCE ALL AREAS OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT.

    Expenses $919,268

As filed on the 2023 return.

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.

  • AARON LYON

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MATTHEW MURPHY

    PRESIDENT ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CAPTAIN WENDY LONGMAN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TERRY HAAS

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SHAWN FOSTER

    IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHRIS GHISSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • FRANK GREY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PAUL FIRMANI

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LUANN KEENAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • IAN THOMAS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RHONDA WARREN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JAMIE MICK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JENNIFER SELK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DEAN WYNTER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • STEFANIE PONTLITZ

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $98,352
    From this org
    $95,149
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,203
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,817,990
    Expenses
    $1,400,961
    Contributions
    $1,708,158
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,093,846
    Expenses
    $1,285,459
    Contributions
    $1,006,933
    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
    $1,353,999
    Expenses
    $1,071,145
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,060,877

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $950,694
    Expenses
    $1,145,276
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,406,937

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,357,289
    Expenses
    $1,346,795
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,972,260

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,153,733
    Expenses
    $973,227
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,945,716

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,963,780
    Expenses
    $981,893
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,732,570

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,426,055
    Expenses
    $1,057,729
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,823,992

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,095,027
    Expenses
    $1,025,337
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,947,218

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $971,946
    Expenses
    $940,284
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,850,731

  • 2009 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $864,636
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,007,567

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.

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.