Texas · Nonprofit
EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND
EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,295 to it, the largest being NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND ($130,201). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $130k
- Net assets
- $57M
What East Texas Lighthouse for the Blind does
Mission
The purpose of the East Texas Lighthouse for the Blind shall be the rehabilitation, education, training and employment of people who are blind, visually impaired, and/or otherwise disabled and the furtherance of their interest and welfare through programs designed to provide rehabilitation, training, and employment opportunities, being wholly charitable and benevolent.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Rehabilitation services - furthers the mission of the organization through the following sub-programs: East Texas Lighthouse for the Blind scholarship program, client services, low vision aids store. The scholarship committee subsidizes adaptive technology purchases and provides scholarships for post-secondary education for blind and visually impaired persons. Client services provides rehabilitation and training services to blind and visually impaired persons to assist them in becoming more self-sufficient. Low vision aids store provides additional employment opportunities for adults who are blind or visually impaired. The store serves the blind community by providing increased access to specialty low-vision aids. In 2025, 506 clients were served, 502 future medical professionals were trained through the vision awareness training, 336 eye exams were provided, 317 pairs of glasses were given out, $31,107 worth of scholarships were granted and 91 grants for adaptive equipment worth $23,707 were issued.
$1,606,996 spentof which $54,808 as grants$19,677,173 earned by the program43% of program spendingManufacturing employment - furthers the mission of the organization through the following sub-programs: horizon industries, lighthouse graphics. Horizon industries provides employment for adults who are blind or visually impaired. Lighthouse graphics provides vocational training and employment for adults who are blind or visually impaired. Lighthouse graphics produces and sells custom printed and embroidered clothing. In the fiscal year 2025, 62 people were employed at horizon manufacturing (etlb), with sales of $19,593,797
$2,130,491 spent$154,740 earned by the program57% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,737,487.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $55M to $61M (+12%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Leona Holloman
President & CEO
Board chair
Rea Boudreaux
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $42k → $21.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30.1M on record.
- Department of Defense$29.9M
- Department of Agriculture$155k
- Department of the Interior$12k
- General Services Administration$8k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND?
- EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,295 to it, the largest being NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND ($130,201). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $130,295 in grants to EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND?
- NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND is the largest funder on record, with $130,201 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing