Connecticut · Nonprofit
THE LIGHTHOUSE VOC-ED CENTER INC
THE LIGHTHOUSE VOC-ED CENTER INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,467 to it, the largest being United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc ($100,179). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.3M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $142k
- Net assets
- $8.7M
What The Lighthouse Voc-Ed Center Inc does
Mission
To educate and prepare children and adults with disabilities for life. Services include educational, residential, and day program supports.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Learning campus - offers intensive individualized educational services for students with intellectual and developmental differences ages 5 - 22. Students are engaged in academic activities tied to common core with authentic opportunities for social communication and independence. Appropriate behaviors are taught and reinforced throughout the day. Students must have an individualized education plan (iep) or be in the beginning stages of identification in their home school district. Full-time, part-time, and summer programming options are available.
$5,745,725 spentof which $2,087 as grants$6,101,342 earned by the program99% of program spendingLife - livecta transition programs are community-based programs where students further develop the skills necessary for independence. Focus is on core program areas: employment, education, social/personal, community, and independent living. Instruction is delivered through a variety of methods including small group workshops, advising sessions, and in-house staff instruction. Livecta aids students in developing and maintaining a network of resources in the community for life-long independence by working closely with other support services, colleges, and businesses. Available to students with asperger's, high-functioning autism (hfa), non-verbal learning disability (nld), pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (pdd-nos), or social communication disorder.
$53,498 spent1% of program spendingCommunity campus - the community campus provides structured community-based experiences for adults (18+) with disabilities, including autism spectrum disorders. Activities are designed to develop adaptive skills in order to increase independence in the community. Provide individualized participant-driven activities that lead to the acquisition of skills needed to prepare an individual for work and/or community involvement. Individual programs may include socialization, leisure, recreation, independent living skills, adaptive skills, personal care, or pre-employment components.
$29,895 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,829,118.
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 2024 to 2025, from $8.7M to $11M (+23%).
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 93% · 2018 94% · 2019 93% · 2020 92% · 2021 39% · 2022 33% · 2023 33% · 2024 21% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of THE LIGHTHOUSE VOC-ED CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
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
Kassidy Brown
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $18k.
1 of 6 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 VOC-ED CENTER 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 LIGHTHOUSE VOC-ED CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% 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 LIGHTHOUSE VOC-ED CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 73% · 2020 78% · 2021 52% · 2022 78% · 2023 89% — 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
95% of THE LIGHTHOUSE VOC-ED CENTER INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $311 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
THE LIGHTHOUSE VOC-ED CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE LIGHTHOUSE VOC-ED CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.1M on record.
- Client Services-General$12.9M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$160k
- Client Subsidies$37k
- Educational Supplies$11k
- GT Transfer-Grant-St Agencies$2k
- State Aid Grants$386
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 VOC-ED CENTER 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE VOC-ED CENTER INC?
- THE LIGHTHOUSE VOC-ED CENTER INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,467 to it, the largest being United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc ($100,179). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LIGHTHOUSE VOC-ED CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $142,467 in grants to THE LIGHTHOUSE VOC-ED CENTER INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LIGHTHOUSE VOC-ED CENTER INC?
- United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc is the largest funder on record, with $100,179 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LIGHTHOUSE VOC-ED CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 6 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