Federal contractor · HOUSTON, TX

LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND OF HOUSTON

LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND OF HOUSTON received $1.2M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 8 awards (+5.3% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $15.9M. Its largest customer was Department of Veterans Affairs ($945.6K).

Obligations · FY2026
$1.2M
New awards
8
Sole-source
74%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Other than small businessNonprofit

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 2MFY2017
  2. 1.8MFY2018
  3. 1.8MFY2019
  4. 1.3MFY2020
  5. 1MFY2021
  6. 2MFY2022
  7. 1.4MFY2023
  8. 2.1MFY2024
  9. 1.2MFY2025
  10. 1.2MFY2026
  11. 83.3KFY2027

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 4 awards
  2. 1 awards
  3. 2 awards
  4. 1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$1.4M100%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition64%
    US 39% · $781.8K
  • Sole-source awards74%
    US 30% · $897.7K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · -$115.9K
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Largest awards

  1. Department of Veterans Affairs· Los Angeles County, CA· IT & telecom· Feb 27, 2019 – Jan 19, 2026· 36C26219C0056
  2. Department of Veterans Affairs· Los Angeles County, CA· Professional services· Sep 30, 2024 – Aug 25, 2026· 36C26224P2511
  3. Railroad Retirement Board· Cook County, IL· Professional services· Sep 29, 2022 – Jul 29, 2026· 60RRBH22F1111
  4. Department of Veterans Affairs· Harris County, TX· Professional services· Oct 8, 2025 – Oct 8, 2025· 36C25626N0197
  5. Department of the Navy· District of Columbia, DC· Professional services· May 30, 2024 – Jun 5, 2026· N0018924PZ284
  6. Department of Veterans Affairs· Harris County, TX· Health & medical· Oct 6, 2020 – Sep 2, 2026· 36C25621F0036
  7. Department of the Navy· Harris County, TX· Professional services· Sep 27, 2024 – Dec 12, 2025· N0060424P4120
  8. Defense Health Agency· Escambia County, FL· Professional services· Aug 11, 2021 – May 20, 2026· N6264521C0005

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $7,940 received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $5,960 received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

1 company · $13.9K reported

  1. AUSTIN, TX · 10 subawards

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 6 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. SOMERSET, NJ · 74% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Business support services
  2. POSTAL STRATEGY CONSULTING LLC$2.6M−8.5% in FY2026
    SENECA, SC · 58% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Business support services
  3. SYRACUSE, NY · 45% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Business support services

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.