Florida · Nonprofit
LIGHTHOUSE OF THE BIG BEND INC
LIGHTHOUSE OF THE BIG BEND INC (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $938,184 to it, the largest being FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF AGENCIES SERVING THE BLIND INC ($522,037). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $938k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Lighthouse of the Big Bend Inc does
Mission
The mission of lighthouse of the big bend is to enhance the lives of individuals living with vision loss in the big bend area through direct services, community engagement, and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Services to individuals who are blind or visually impaired and their families, including 5 programs: (a) early intervention/blind babies program for infants and young children birth through age 6 to facilitate the attainment of critical developmental milestones and increase opportunities for success in school, at home, and later in life; (b) transition programs for teens and young adults ages 14 until graduation from high school to teach vocational and independent living goals empowering them to become self sufficient members of society; (c) vocational rehabiliation program for adults seeking to obtain, retain, or regain competitive employment; (d) independent living program for adults and seniors to remain independent in their homes, travel safely and independently in the community and improve the quality of life. Program services include information and referral, job readiness training, orientation and mobility training, access technology training including computers, smart phones, and tablets, personal/home management, adaptive kitchen skills, communication skills training (inludes braille, keyboarding, writing skills), magnification, lighting, eccentric viewing, adjustment to…
$1,095,806 spent$399 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,095,806.
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 $1.5M to $1.6M (+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 84% · 2018 82% · 2019 80% · 2020 78% · 2021 79% · 2022 76% · 2023 78% · 2024 71% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of LIGHTHOUSE OF THE BIG BEND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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.
Chief executive
Kristina Torrance
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $39k → $134k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 THE BIG BEND INC’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 OF THE BIG BEND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 THE BIG BEND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 63% · 2019 51% · 2020 52% · 2021 52% · 2022 50% · 2023 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of LIGHTHOUSE OF THE BIG BEND 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. $281 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 OF THE BIG BEND INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LIGHTHOUSE OF THE BIG BEND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $1k
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 OF THE BIG BEND 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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF THE BIG BEND INC?
- LIGHTHOUSE OF THE BIG BEND INC (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $938,184 to it, the largest being FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF AGENCIES SERVING THE BLIND INC ($522,037). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIGHTHOUSE OF THE BIG BEND INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $938,184 in grants to LIGHTHOUSE OF THE BIG BEND INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIGHTHOUSE OF THE BIG BEND INC?
- FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF AGENCIES SERVING THE BLIND INC is the largest funder on record, with $522,037 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIGHTHOUSE OF THE BIG BEND 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 7 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