Blindness Support Services

Analysis

Blindness Support Services is a registered charity in United States, based in Riverside, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover unknown, which this site groups under other charitable purposes. 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 June 2023, Blindness Support Services reported income of $1.6m and spending of $1.6m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $1.3m to $1.6m (+23%), an average of +5.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Blindness Support Services sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Reins of Life Inc ($1.6m), Quest Academy Inc ($1.6m) and Laurel Education Center Inc ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $178k, net assets of $1.0m. It reported 27 employees.