Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Analysis

Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired is a registered charity in United States, based in Grand Rapids, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1943, 83 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 organisation supporting a government-owned college or university under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending March 2023, Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired reported income of $817k and spending of $948k, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from March 2020 to March 2023, income grew from $391k to $817k (+109%), an average of +28% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2021, when income rose by 76%. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Leadership in Disabilities & Achievement of Hawaii ($817k), Richard David Kann Melanoma Task Force Inc ($817k) and Hudson Information Technology for Community Health Inc ($817k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending March 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 52% and program service revenue 47% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $439k. At year end it held assets of $935k against liabilities of $482k, net assets of $453k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.