Minnesota · Nonprofit
LIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING
LIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING (Minnesota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $718,881 to it, the largest being DULUTH-SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($360,552). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $719k
- Net assets
- $6.1M
What Lighthouse Center for Vital Living does
Mission
Fostering vibrant lives for people with vision loss and other challenges to independence. To accomplish this mission, the lighthouse operates many different programs, serving people of all ages in northern mn and northwestern wi. As a result of our commitment, people are maximizing their self-reliance and are optimistic about possibilities. Our programs - delivered at our center, in clients' homes and in workplaces - provide training, technology and social/emotional supports that empower the whole person.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Assistive technology services for older adults and individuals of all ages with disabilities. Serving 300+ people per year. We provide assistive technology assessments, individualized technology training, device loans and demonstrations, and customized technology set up. Follow-up results indicate most clients are using technology daily and report significant gains in independence and quality of life.
$1,536,455 spent$957,563 earned by the program100% of program spendingOccupational therapy and other independent living services, serving older adults and individuals with vision loss and other disabilities. Providing 1:1 service to 200+ people per year, promoting aging in place, safety, connection, quality of life. Documented results for low vision clients show 15 percentage point increase on a validated tool measuring functional independence. For clients across disability areas, 90%+ report our services help them say in their homes.
Adjustment to blindness (atb) rehabilitation services: includes our transition program for teens, atb training services for adults at our center or in their homes. Training is highly individualized to each person's needs for independent living and work. We serve 25-40 teens per year and 20-60 adults.
Public education, talking book radio, information and referral services.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,536,455.
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 $1.8M to $5.7M (+214%).
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: 2017 16% · 2018 3% · 2019 10% · 2021 19% · 2022 5% · 2023 42% · 2024 42% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of LIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $57k → $43k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 LIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING’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
LIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 LIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 45% · 2019 75% · 2020 54% · 2021 50% · 2022 55% · 2023 95% — growing more concentrated.
“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
22% of LIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
55% of LIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $323k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $396k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
LIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING has grown faster than half of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING: 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 LIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING?
- LIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING (Minnesota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $718,881 to it, the largest being DULUTH-SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($360,552). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $718,881 in grants to LIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING?
- DULUTH-SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $360,552 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 15 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing