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FirstLight Home Care franchise — is it worth it?

Low risk Growing network Item 19 disclosed

FirstLight Home Care operates in the senior and home care sector, offering a franchise model with a disclosed Item 19 that indicates strong average gross revenues for established territories.

Everything below is free, read straight off FirstLight Home Care's registered filing, with where the numbers land against senior & home care peers. Weighing FirstLight Home Care against other options? Get a free shortlist of franchises that fit your budget.

Figures above are as disclosed in FirstLight Home Care's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration · filing 640404 — check it yourself. See every other Wisconsin-registered franchise.

How much does a FirstLight Home Care franchise make?

FirstLight Home Care is one of the franchisors that answers this on the record: its most recent FDD makes an Item 19 financial performance representation — actual unit earnings figures, disclosed by the franchisor itself. The headline figure is $1,545,696 in average unit revenue — read it alongside what Item 19 says about which units it covers (often only mature or top-performing locations). See every senior & home care brand that discloses earnings in the Senior & home care franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

FirstLight Home Care franchise profit vs. revenue

Revenue is not profit. An Item 19 almost always reports sales — what a location takes in — not what an owner keeps. Out of that number come FirstLight Home Care's 5% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a FirstLight Home Care franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "FirstLight Home Care franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. On $1,545,696 of revenue, a 5% royalty alone is about $77,285 a year before any other cost.

FirstLight Home Care lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

FirstLight Home Care's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026) discloses no litigation in Item 3. That is a real signal rather than a gap: the FTC Franchise Rule requires a franchisor to disclose material litigation involving itself, its predecessors, parents, affiliates and management, so an empty Item 3 in a current filing means there was nothing it was required to report. It is worth reading alongside the churn numbers — a system can have a clean Item 3 and still be losing franchisees, which is what Item 20 shows.

FirstLight Home Care closures & failure rate

Before you sign, FirstLight Home Care will hand you a list of current owners to call as references — and they choose who's on that list. It won't include the owners who quit, got bought out, or were forced out last year. The FDD does report that number, even though the reference list leaves those people off. Below is what FirstLight Home Care's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a senior & home care of this kind.

The closest thing an FDD has to a failure rate is Item 20 — outlet openings, closures, terminations and non-renewals, reported by the franchisor. FirstLight Home Care's latest tables show a growing franchised network. Net franchised outlets moved +46 to 284 in the latest reported year.

Who owns FirstLight Home Care?

FirstLight Home Care's franchise is offered by FirstLight HomeCare Franchising, LLC — the franchisor named on the cover of its most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026), and the entity a franchisee actually signs with. That name comes straight off the filing at WI DFI; it identifies the franchisor, not necessarily the ultimate parent company behind it.

Senior & home care franchises at a similar investment level

Anyone weighing FirstLight Home Care is really weighing it against the other brands their money could go into. These are the closest by total initial investment (FDD Item 7), each with its own FDD-based page.

FirstLight Home Care franchise — frequently asked