Florida · Nonprofit
LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC
LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,305,843 to it, the largest being FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF AGENCIES SERVING THE BLIND INC ($953,282). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $8.0M
What Lighthouse Central Florida Inc does
Mission
Charting a course for living, learning, and earning with vision loss.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Lighthouse works, inc., a related entity, provides job training, employment, and career opportunities that empower individuals who are blind or visually impaired to achieve meaningful employment in competitive, integrated workplaces. During the year, lighthouse works employed 323 individuals who are blind or visually impaired, who collectively contributed more than 336,356 labor hours and earned over $4.27 million in wages.
$1,248,139 spent$1,248,139 earned by the program30% of program spendingLighthouse central florida, inc. Provided comprehensive vision rehabilitation services to 425 adults through its adult services, senior adult services, and vocational rehabilitation programs. Services included low vision rehabilitation, orientation and mobility, activities of daily living instruction, assistive technology, braille, employment readiness, vocational training, counseling, and community integration.during the year, lighthouse central florida delivered more than 18,273 hours of assessment and instructional services and provided 10,878 individual service encounters, empowering children, adults, seniors, and their families with the skills, resources, and support needed to increase independence, access education and employment opportunities, participate more fully in their communities, and improve overall quality of life.
$1,509,221 spent37% of program spendingLighthouse central florida, inc. Provided comprehensive vision rehabilitation services through its early intervention, children's, and teen transition programs, serving 156 youth and their families. Services were tailored to each child's developmental stage and included vision rehabilitation, orientation and mobility, assistive technology, braille instruction, independent living skills, educational support, and family-centered training. The program also provided transition services to help teens prepare for postsecondary education, employment, and independent living, empowering young people with vision loss to build confidence, develop essential life skills, and achieve greater independence.
$1,372,618 spent33% of program spendingOur program provides essential services and aides to support participant needs, funded in part through program services income, which ensures the delivery and sustainability of these offerings. Among the services provided are adaptive aides, which include personalized support tools and resources designed to accommodate individual needs and promote equitable access to all program activities.
$9,614 earned by the programRental income generated by the organization is used to directly support program services. These funds help cover operational costs, enhance service delivery, and ensure that essential resources and support remain accessible to all participants.
$110 earned by the program
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,129,978.
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 2023 to 2024, from $8.6M to $9.1M (+7%).
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 55% · 2018 49% · 2019 49% · 2020 63% · 2021 55% · 2022 46% · 2023 38% · 2024 48% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $309k → $587k.
7 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $200k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lighthouse Works Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
60% 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 CENTRAL FLORIDA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 29% · 2019 24% · 2020 26% · 2021 31% · 2022 29% · 2023 27% — 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
57% of LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
76% of LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $809k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 CENTRAL FLORIDA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $138 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $138
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 LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Lighthouse Works Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC?
- LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,305,843 to it, the largest being FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF AGENCIES SERVING THE BLIND INC ($953,282). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $4,305,843 in grants to LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC?
- FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF AGENCIES SERVING THE BLIND INC is the largest funder on record, with $953,282 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 46 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