Blindness Foundation

Analysis

Blindness Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Newport Beach, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1998, 28 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 private non-operating foundation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Blindness Foundation reported income of $397k and spending of $394k, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $695k to $397k (-43%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 393%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Blindness Foundation sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 68th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Manes for Movement Inc ($396k), Nea Divine Intervention Inc ($397k) and Gallatin Senior Housing Inc ($396k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $39k against liabilities of $566, net assets of $39k.