Center for the Blind and Disabled

Analysis

Center for the Blind and Disabled is a registered charity in United States, based in Chester, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Center for the Blind and Disabled reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.1m, spending 84% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.7m to $1.3m (-20%), an average of -5.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Center for the Blind and Disabled sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 81st percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Inc ($1.3m), Lutheran Brethren Homes Inc ($1.3m) and Christian Care Holding Company Inc ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 98% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $505k. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $43k, net assets of $1.5m. It reported 39 employees.