Arkansas · Nonprofit
THE ARKANSAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC
THE ARKANSAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,036 to it, the largest being NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $0
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $0
What The Arkansas Lighthouse for the Blind Inc does
Mission
To improve occupational opportunity and public perception of legally blind arkansans through community engagement, work skills enhancement and the production of quality goods and services.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
Operation of a qualified abilityone agency that provides training, employment and services for the blind and visually-impaired. Manufacturing and sales of apparel, textiles, and paper products utilizing the skills of blind and visually impaired individuals. Contributions are used to provide training for specific job skills. Funds are also used to develop new product lines and services to create jobs for the visually impaired.effective 10/01/2017, arkansas lighthouse for the blind discontinued operations and transferred all operational interests to winston-salem industries for the blind.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2017 to 2018, from $11M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $40k → $24.
1 of 2 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 THE ARKANSAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND 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
THE ARKANSAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 THE ARKANSAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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
THE ARKANSAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arkansas, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36 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.
Government funding THE ARKANSAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $38.8M on record.
- Department of Defense$38.4M
- Department of Homeland Security$393k
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 THE ARKANSAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND 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 Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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
- Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE ARKANSAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC: 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 THE ARKANSAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC?
- THE ARKANSAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC (Arkansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,036 to it, the largest being NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ARKANSAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $80,036 in grants to THE ARKANSAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ARKANSAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC?
- NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ARKANSAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 2 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