Missouri · Nonprofit
THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND
THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND (Missouri) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $450,664 to it, the largest being TOM W BENNETT ESTATE ($225,690). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Lavelle Fund for the Blind Incshared fundersportfolio match
- East Missouri Foundationshared funders
- Brookreson Marie H Tuwportfolio match
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.
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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $35k → $85k.
1 of 11 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 LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND’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 LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 95% · 2019 72% · 2020 44% · 2021 29% · 2022 44% · 2023 31% — 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
86% of THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $608 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 173 organizations that share them.
- Lavelle Fund for the Blind Incshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 9 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- East Missouri Foundationshared fundersMO · backs 17 organizations that share your funders
- Brookreson Marie H Tuwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pott Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 20 organizations that share your funders
- Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Delta Gamma Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dr Harry J Heeb Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gibney Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Allene Reuss Memorial Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jorgenson Foundation Inc the Jorgenson Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Boston Center for Blind Children Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $89.7M on record.
- Department of Defense$50.9M
- Department of Agriculture$38.1M
- Department of the Interior$701k
- Department of Justice$103k
- Department of State$8k
- District of Columbia Courts$4k
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 LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
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
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND?
- THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND (Missouri) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $450,664 to it, the largest being TOM W BENNETT ESTATE ($225,690). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $450,664 in grants to THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND?
- TOM W BENNETT ESTATE is the largest funder on record, with $225,690 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 11funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing