Valley Center for the Blind

Analysis

Valley Center for the Blind is a registered charity in United States, based in Fresno, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1973, 53 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 September 2023, Valley Center for the Blind reported income of $1.9m and spending of $1.9m, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $824k to $1.9m (+133%), an average of +24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income rose by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Valley Center for the Blind sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS Inc ($1.9m), North American Neuro-Opthalmology Society ($1.9m) and WV Game Changers Inc ($1.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 24% and program service revenue 73% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $85k (4.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.2m. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $482k, net assets of $1.3m. It reported 57 employees.