Texas · Nonprofit
Houston Lighthouse Foundation Inc
Houston Lighthouse Foundation Inc (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,916,789 to it, the largest being Lighthouse For The Blind Of Houston Inc ($9,916,789). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Houston Lighthouse Foundation Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,338 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,338 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Houston Arts Alliancelocal
- Anne and Don Fizer Foundationportfolio match
- Houston Community Toolbank Incportfolio match
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.
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.
65% of Houston Lighthouse Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Houston Lighthouse Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
100% of Houston Lighthouse Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Houston Arts AlliancelocalTX · funds 276 organizations near you
- Anne and Don Fizer Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Houston Community Toolbank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The West Endowmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Prioleau Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Glassell Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Doggett Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John P McGovern Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- J Squared Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- ESB3 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wt & Louise J Moran Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edith Fbondi Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Houston Lighthouse Foundation Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Lighthouse for the Blind of Houston Inc · exempt
- Lighthouse Living Centers Inc · exempt
- Lighthouse Living Centers No 2 Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Houston 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Houston Lighthouse Foundation Inc?
- Houston Lighthouse Foundation Inc (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,916,789 to it, the largest being Lighthouse For The Blind Of Houston Inc ($9,916,789). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Houston Lighthouse Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $9,916,789 in grants to Houston Lighthouse Foundation Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Houston Lighthouse Foundation Inc?
- Lighthouse For The Blind Of Houston Inc is the largest funder on record, with $9,916,789 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Houston Lighthouse Foundation Inc 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.
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 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing