Georgia · Nonprofit
Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc
Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,827,656 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA KIMBROUGH CLARK REESE AND THOMAS MATT REESE TRUST ($4,520,250). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $6.8M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc does
Mission
The georgia lions lighthouse foundation provides vision services through education, detection, prevention & treatment. Through collaborative partnerships we enable greater independence and increased quality of life for georgians in financial need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025, the georgia lions lighthouse vision services included 1,270 tele-optometry patients, 2,160 traditional mobile patients, 371 patients received glasses through frame kits program and 2,171 patients were seen in the chamblee clinic for a total of 5,972. The following services were provided: 3,989 exams; 5,740 patients received glasses. We also provided 63,604 screenings for children in the school systems to determine if they needed further vision services. Our traditional mobile and tele-optometry clinics worked with more than 45 partnerships to bring sight services to georgians across the state. The value of in-kind services was $180,000 in 2025.
$1,629,126 spent$240,718 earned by the program88% of program spendingIn 2025, the georgia lions lighthouse foundation, inc. Vision surgery program coordinated eye surgical services for 207 patients who received 421 surgical procedures at no cost to the patient. Surgical facilitation includes care for the following eye diseases: macular degeneration, retinopathy and keratoconus, cataract surgeries and glaucoma treatments. We partner with over two hundred ophthalmologists (24 ophthalmology partner groups), surgical facilities and anesthesiologists to ensure quality care for georgians who lack insurance coverage and have incomes at 200% of poverty or below.the value of in-kind services was over $650,000 in 2025.
$218,597 spent12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,847,723.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $25M to $20M (−17%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 8% · 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Vicki Hubbard
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $559k → $850k.
6 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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
Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 70% · 2019 73% · 2020 74% · 2021 73% · 2022 73% · 2023 66% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
47% of Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
95% of Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $804k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states 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.
Against its field
Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Virginia K Reese & T Matt Reese Trust · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc?
- Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,827,656 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA KIMBROUGH CLARK REESE AND THOMAS MATT REESE TRUST ($4,520,250). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $6,827,656 in grants to Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc?
- VIRGINIA KIMBROUGH CLARK REESE AND THOMAS MATT REESE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $4,520,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 37 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