Florida · Nonprofit
LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC
LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,071,583 to it, the largest being The Jim Moran Foundation Inc ($1,775,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $6.1M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Lighthouse of Broward County Inc does
Mission
To provide specialized rehabilitation and collaborative healthcare solutions that enhance the independence, productivity, and dignity of children and adults who are blind or visually impaired.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adult - services are provided at the organization's facility, as well as in the community, for blind or visually impaired individuals over the age of 21 through the vital living and working solutions programs. These programs teach skills leading to more independence at home, school, work, or in the community. Services are tailored to meet an individual's needs and can include any combination of the following: instruction for safe indoor/outdoor travel, use of technology including computers and smart phones with accessible software, self-advocacy and resources, activities of daily living (including safe cooking skills, personal grooming, money identification, medication and home management techniques), diabetes management, braille, adjustment to blindness and peer support counseling, and job readiness training. The organization provided direct services to approximately 660 adults during the year ended june 30, 2025. Additionally, continuing education services were provided to an approximate 2,000 former clients through the organization's lifetime learners program.
$2,106,607 spent$23,822 earned by the program68% of program spendingTeenlife (learning independence from experience) (ages 14 - 21) provides both group and individual instruction year round. Teams learn to develop vocational goals, work habits, interviewing skills and college expectations. They also work summer jobs, improve computer skills, acquire braille literacy, build social skills, prepare meals and budgets and use public transportation; further strengthening skill sets introduced in younger programming. The organization provided over 4,800 hours of instruction to approximately 100 teens during the year ended june 30, 2025.
$343,728 spent$3,887 earned by the program11% of program spendingBright beginnings (ages birth - 5) teaches infants and toddlers to learn through structured play therapy and teaches parents how to apply "learning through play" routines as daily activities to help achieve developmental milestones. The organization served approximately 40 bright beginning children and their parents during the year ended june 30, 2025. Kids keys to independence (ages 6 - 13) provides group instruction over the course of the school year, as well as, an 8-week virtual summer camp. Youth learn safe travel, personal care, braille, computers and social skills. The organization provided over 3,900 hours of instruction to approximately 80 kids during the year ended june 30, 2025.
$662,570 spent$7,493 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,112,905.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $8.2M to $22M (+173%).
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 68% · 2018 61% · 2019 67% · 2020 61% · 2021 53% · 2022 47% · 2023 17% · 2024 40% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Ellyn Drotzer
President/CEO
Board chair
Timothy Moffatt
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $82k → $873k.
4 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 OF BROWARD COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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 OF BROWARD COUNTY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
31% 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 OF BROWARD COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 67% · 2019 34% · 2020 51% · 2021 36% · 2022 41% · 2023 34% — 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
58% of LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% 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
96% of LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY 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. $200k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
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In Florida
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
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC?
- LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,071,583 to it, the largest being The Jim Moran Foundation Inc ($1,775,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $6,071,583 in grants to LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC?
- The Jim Moran Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,775,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY 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 36 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