California · Nonprofit
LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED
LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED (California) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,161,088 to it, the largest being SENIOR ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION EASTBAY ($600,000). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $55M
- Funders on record
- 104
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $149M
What Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired does
Mission
To promote independence, community, and equity created by and with blind and low vision people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Vision rehabilitation services:-blindness skills provides instruction to people who are new to blindness or low vision to help them learn to use a white cane for mobility, read braille, utilize accessible technology and acquire adaptive methods for cooking and daily living. -enchanted hills camp for the blind in napa is one of the west's only camps for blind, visually impaired, deaf-blind and multi-disabled youth, adults and seniors. Enchanted hills camp is a place for blind campers to explore and create, gain courage, try new things and make lifelong friends. -deaf-blind services include a communications equipment and training program that is open to deaf-blind individuals throughout the state. It also hosts a special enchanted hills camp session specifically for the deaf-blind.
$12,272,475 spent46% of program spendingCommunity & information services:-community services offers social, health promotion and educational classes for the blind. Opportunities include, yoga, dance, a book club, and many other programs. Cultural, artistic and fitness programs bring people together for social engagement and to build a community of low vision and blind people. -blind teens find a place where blindness is normal at lighthouse youth programs. Activities include adventures in the great outdoors, volunteer service and mentorship opportunities. -a counseling services program for the blind and low vision provides one-on-one counseling, peer counseling and group therapy sessions.
$3,286,292 spent12% of program spendingLighthouse enterprises:-lighthouse operates adaptations, a brick-and-mortar store selling blind adaptive technologies and tools, such as white canes, guide dog supplies, magnifiers, talking watches and other items.-lighthouse industries provides direct employment at the sirkin lighthouse, our light manufacturing plant in alameda where 75% of all direct labor is performed by blind or visually impaired employees. -the lighthouse's employment immersion program is our job training program specifically designed for blind and visually impaired jobseekers in the bay area. Our graduates have the skills to find jobs, starting them on a path of self-reliance and life fulfilment. -the media and accessible design laboratory (mad lab) makes visual information accessible to people who are blind and visually impaired. The transcription team takes original copy and translates it into accessible formats, including braille, large print, and audio. An experienced team of braille certified tactile image and map designers helps corporate and governmental entities, educational institutions, and nonprofits improve the accessibility and inclusiveness of their venues and services as well as comply with…
$11,041,587 spent$6,188,077 earned by the program42% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,600,354.
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 $215M to $181M (−16%).
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 9% · 2018 11% · 2019 10% · 2020 15% · 2021 7% · 2022 9% · 2023 10% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Sharon L Giovinazzo
CEO/executive director
Board chair
Jennison Mark Asuncion
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 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 14 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $167k → $914k.
17 of 104 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 104 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 FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
53% 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 FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 31% · 2019 46% · 2020 19% · 2021 13% · 2022 33% · 2023 16% — 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
38% of LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
51% of LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,288 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $145k on record.
- Department of Justice$104k
- Department of Agriculture$32k
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
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 4 related entities
- The Lighthouse Member LLC · disregarded
- 1155 Market Qalicb · exempt
- Blind Holdings LLC · partnership
- The Lighthouse Building LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: 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 FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED?
- LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED (California) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,161,088 to it, the largest being SENIOR ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION EASTBAY ($600,000). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED have?
- IRS filings report 104 organizations giving $5,161,088 in grants to LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED?
- SENIOR ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION EASTBAY is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 104 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