St Louis Society for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Analysis

St Louis Society for the Blind and Visually Impaired is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Louis, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1941, 85 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 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, St Louis Society for the Blind and Visually Impaired reported income of $1.8m and spending of $1.8m, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.1m to $1.8m (-16%), an average of -4.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 111%. Over the whole period it spent 69% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, St Louis Society for the Blind and Visually Impaired sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Residential Treatment Services of Alamance Inc ($1.8m), Harry E Davis Partnership for Childrens Oral Health ($1.8m) and Bigvision Foundation ($1.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 46% and program service revenue 23% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $149k (8.3% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $724k. At year end it held assets of $20.1m against liabilities of $132k, net assets of $19.9m. It reported 35 employees.