World Services for the Blind Foundation

Analysis

World Services for the Blind Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Little Rock, AR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, World Services for the Blind Foundation reported income of $629k and spending of $286k, leaving 54% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $3.5m to $629k (-82%), an average of -35% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 264%. Over the whole period it spent 39% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, World Services for the Blind Foundation sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 75th percentile within AR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ronald McDonald House Charities of Eastern Montana ($629k), Friends of Sinners Inc ($629k) and Integrative Touch ($629k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 70% of the total. At year end it held assets of $9.6m against liabilities of $4.1m, net assets of $5.5m.