Services for the Visually and Hearing Impaired

Analysis

Services for the Visually and Hearing Impaired is a registered charity in United States, based in Marion, IN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1956, 70 years ago. Its declared purposes cover civil rights, social action and advocacy, which this site groups under human rights and equality. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Services for the Visually and Hearing Impaired reported income of $80k and spending of $67k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $204k to $80k (-61%), an average of -38% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 68%. Over the whole period it spent 69% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Services for the Visually and Hearing Impaired sits at the 26th percentile: it is larger than about 26% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 31st percentile, and in the 28th percentile within IN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include My Fathers Vineyard Inc ($80k), National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Fund Inc ($80k) and Clean Elections Minnesota ($79k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% and program service revenue 0.7% of the total. At year end it held assets of $159k against liabilities of $1,819, net assets of $157k.