FY2025 Impact Report

Your steadfast commitment provides the vital stability we need to navigate challenging economic seasons. You are the engine behind our mission, and it is your support and belief in our work that ensures we can continue providing the critical services and life-changing career opportunities that our community relies on.

Fiscal Year 2025 Annual Report – PDF | Large Print
Fiscal Year 2025 Financials — PDF

A DeafBlind man wearing a high-vis jacket uses a miniguide and a white cane in Downtown Seattle while an Orientation and Mobility Instructor follows behind

Pictured on cover: Chris Loomis uses a white cane and Miniguide to navigate downtown Seattle with Senior Orientation and Mobility Specialist David Miller 

In this Report:

  • A bearded man wearing glasses and a suit and tie smiling in a photo studio

    Your steadfast commitment provides the vital stability we need to navigate challenging economic seasons. You are the engine behind our mission, and it is your support and belief in our work that ensures we can continue providing the critical services and life-changing career opportunities that our community relies on.

  • Bar graph showing the breakdown of donations to the organisation

    Your generosity fuels the Lighthouse, providing essential programs and life-changing opportunities for people who are blind, DeafBlind, or blind with other disabilities.

  • Thank you to our donors and partners for your transformative impact and continued commitment to our community.

  • A group of people are standing in a room, looking at a computer screen. There are several chairs and a dog in the room

    Our Low Vision Services Program marked its fifth year providing vital low vision care for the Puget Sound area.

  • Mike King, CNC Machinist II, Seattle Facility. Mike has light skin and it standing in front of a large AKUMA machine, wearing a baseball cap and smiling.

    The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc. is a trusted manufacturing partner to the aerospace industry and other mission-critical customers.

  • Matia "Junior" Ah-Siu, Assistant Manager, AbilityOne Base Supply Center, Seattle Coast Guard. Junior has medium skin and dark hair. He is wearing a suit and standing in an AbilityOne Base Supply Center.

    In 2025, our AbilityOne Base Supply Centers served federal customers across the U.S. Navy, Army, Air Force, and Coast Guard amid operational change and growing complexity.

  • Two women are sitting at a desk and smiling while one is demonstrating accessible technology to the other

    A look back at the ways our Employee and Community Services supported our employees and community in FY 2025

  • Photo collage of Alex Carter and Melinda Slovernick

    Congratulations to our Employees of the Year for FY 2025, Alex Carter and Melinda Slovernick

  • Collage of several Lighthouse employees in various jobs smiling and working

    Through meaningful employment and skill-building in an inclusive workplace, career ambitions become a reality at the Lighthouse.

  • A group of people who are DeafBlind sit in a meeting room and smile while communicating in ASL

    The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc.’s Employee and Community Services (ECS) programs support employees who are blind, DeafBlind, or blind with other disabilities in succeeding at work and beyond.

  • Volunteers from Bank of America pose for a group photo in the Fragrant Garden

    The Lighthouse Foundation Board of Directors continued its work to increase awareness and cultivate philanthropic support from the community in fiscal year 2025.

  • John Craddock, wearing a suit and tie and glasses, smiles in a photo studio

    A look at Lighthouse financials in FY 2025

  • A black woman sits at desk typing on a keyboard braille display, smiling.

    Since 1918, The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc. has created opportunities for people who are blind, DeafBlind, and blind with other disabilities through meaningful employment and services that support long-term independence and career growth.

  • Exterior photo of the Lighthouse facility in Seattle

    From aerospace machining, production, service businesses, retail, administration, accounting, human resources, employee training, and executive-level management, there are people who are blind and DeafBlind powering everything we do.

  • A DeafBlind man wearing a high-vis jacket uses a miniguide and a white cane in Downtown Seattle while an Orientation and Mobility Instructor follows behind

    Your steadfast commitment provides the vital stability we need to navigate challenging economic seasons. You are the engine behind our mission, and it is your support and belief in our work that ensures we can continue providing the critical services and life-changing career opportunities that our community relies on. Fiscal Year 2025 Annual [...]