Taping for the Blind Inc

Analysis

Taping for the Blind Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1967, 59 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Taping for the Blind Inc reported income of $523k and spending of $343k, leaving 34% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $345k to $523k (+52%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 59%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Taping for the Blind Inc sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 75th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mahaska Hospital Foundation ($523k), Heartland Pregnancy Care and Family Life Services Inc ($523k) and Gilchrist Baltimore Center Support Corporation ($523k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% and program service revenue 0.3% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $189k. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $3,084, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 3 employees.