Lighthouse Guild International

Lighthouse Guild International

Lighthouse Guild International traces its roots to 1906, founded as a charitable organization to serve the blind and visually impaired. Chairman James M. Dubin, a former senior partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, leads a board that includes Vornado Realty Trust Vice Chairman David R. Greenbaum and Kahn Brothers Group President Thomas G. Kahn. The foundation operates from its headquarters at 250 West 64th Street in Manhattan. The organization funds its operations through a dedicated investment portfolio and beneficial interests in perpetual trusts. While exact AUM is undisclosed, the portfolio supports a multi-site healthcare delivery system with clinics in Albany, Buffalo, and Niagara Falls. The asset base leans on direct endowment holdings and real estate assets, including its headquarters and regional clinical properties, rather than a fund-of-funds approach. The investment posture supports vision rehabilitation, technology development, and advocacy programming rather than external co-investment structures. Board member David R. Greenbaum connects the foundation to the Real Estate Board of New York, while the Palm Beach Friends of Lighthouse Guild extend its philanthropic network into Florida. The investment committee operates without a publicly disclosed outside CIO or OCIO mandate, suggesting internal management of the endowment. The foundation has not announced any new pooled funds or fundraising vehicles in the past 24 months. The endowment's structural distinction lies in its perpetual trusts — an arrangement that provides long-term financial ballast outside the typical spend-down pressures of self-liquidating charitable foundations. This trust structure, combined with direct real estate holdings, creates a balance sheet that functions more like a legacy institutional endowment than a program-dependent nonprofit, though the organization does not publicly report investment performance or total corpus size.