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Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Inc

The mission of the florida association of agencies serving the blind is to serve as a united voice and be the organizational support empowering private agencies serving floridans with blindness and visual impairment to provide state-of-the-art professional vision rehabilitation services which enhance the quality of individual and…

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$230k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$5.6MHuman Services$1.5MEmployment$389kEducation$12k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.9M
$142,774
Median grant
1
States reached
$795k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIGHTHOUSE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$230,490
LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY$224,771
LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND OF THE PALM BEACHES INC$222,916
LIGHTHOUSE OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA$164,559
CONKLIN DAVIS CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC$154,186
FLORIDA CENTER FOR THE BLIND$145,316
LIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER$142,774
NEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE$123,520
LIGHTHOUSE OF PINELLAS$119,917
LIGHTHOUSE OF THE BIG BEND$115,700
LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND BLIND INC$112,495
INDEPENDENCE FOR THE BLIND OF WEST FLORIDA INC$94,752
LIGHTHOUSE VISION LOSS EDUCATION CENTER$11,780
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIGHTHOUSE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $230k → 6%LIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER: $143k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND BLIND INC: $112k → 11%MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE VISUALLY I: $58k → 15%LIGHTHOUSE OF THE BIG BEND: $116k → 19%LIGHTHOUSE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $157k → 6%LIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER: $94k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND BLIND INC: $93k → 11%LIGHTHOUSE OF THE BIG BEND: $89k → 19%LIGHTHOUSE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $141k → 6%LIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER: $47k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND BLIND INC: $64k → 11%LBB: $70k → 19%LIGHTHOUSE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $109k → 6%LIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER: $41k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND BLIND INC: $56k → 11%LIGHTHOUSE OF THE BIG BEND: $68k → 19%LIGHTHOUSE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $107k → 6%NEW VISION INDEPENDENCE INC: $39k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER: $32k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND BLIND INC: $52k → 11%LIGHTHOUSE OF BIG BEND: $66k → 19%LIGHTHOUSE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $105k → 6%NEW VISION INDEPENDENCE INC: $38k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER: $26k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND BLIND INC: $37k → 11%LIGHTHOUSE OF THE BIG BEND: $57k → 19%LIGHTHOUSE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $103k → 6%NEW VISION INDEPENDENCE: $36k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER: $18k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRE: $53k → 11%LIGHTHOUSE OF BIG BEND: $56k → 19%FLORIDA OUTREACH CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $890 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.4M · 16 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
3

Total granted

$7.4M
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+90%

Still filing today

94%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • LO
    LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +140%
  • LC
    LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $953k · revenue +35%
  • LO
    LIGHTHOUSE OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $680k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • ML
    MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC
    one grant, 2018 · $58k · revenue -9%
  • FS
    FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE AT JACKSONVILLE VISION EDUCATION & REHAB CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • FO
    FLORIDA OUTREACH CENTER FOR THE BLIND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $890 · revenue +90%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Ensight Skills Center

To provide people with low vision the services and resources that empower independent and productive living. ensight's programs are designed to help our patients overcome barriers to living life independently and safely. hands-on programs…

Health
2
Lighthouse Works Inc

Empowerment through employment for blind or visually impaired individuals.

Human Services
3
Colorado Center for the Blind

The colorado center for the blind provides training which enables blind individuals to lead independent productive lives.

Health
4
Alaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired

The Alaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired's mission is to eliminate vision loss as the barrier to employment, community participation or quality of life. We are the only statewide training and resource center for vision…

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5
St Louis Society for the Blind

The society enhances independence, empowers individuals and enriches the lives of people who are visually impaired or blind.

Health
6
Toledo Society for the Blind Inc

The sight center provides a unique blend of specialized vision rehabilitation programs and services that can help people of all ages work, learn, play and live independently with permanent vision loss. primary services include low vision…

Health
7
Visionsservices for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Visions is a 98-year-old nonprofit vision rehabilitation and social service organization that trains low income people of all ages experiencing blindness and severe vision loss to lead independent and active lives at work, in their homes…

Human Services
8
The Lighthouse for the Blind in New Orleans Inc

To empower people with disabilities through employment, services and advocacy.

Health
9
Lighthouse Center for Vital Living

Fostering vibrant lives for people with vision loss and other challenges to independence. to accomplish this mission, the lighthouse operates many different programs, serving people of all ages in northern mn and northwestern wi. as a…

Health
10
The Lighthouse for the Blind Inc

We empower people who are blind, deafblind, and blind with other disabilities by creating diverse, sustainable, and meaningful employment opportunities.

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11
Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired

To promote independence, community, and equity created by and with blind and low vision people.

Human Services
12
Florida Lions Conklin Centers

Rehabilitation center for the multihandicapped blind. vari- ious life skills, orientation, mobility and vocational train ing is taught. approximately 80 multihandicapped blind stu- dents are enrolled in extended community based services.…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lighthouse for the Visually Impaired and Blind Inc; the most unlike its peers is Florida State College at Jacksonville Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $1,124,761 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INCLIGHTHOUSE OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $680,139 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INCLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND OF THE PALM BEACHES INC: $587,746 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND OF THE PALM BEACHES INCFLORIDA CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $503,577 · OtherFLORIDA CENTER FOR THE BLIND INCLIGHTHOUSE OF PINELLAS INC: $361,492 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE OF PINELLAS INCNEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE: $301,182 · OtherNEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCETAMPA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC: $181,422 · Other+2 more: $19,145 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $953,282 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INCLIGHTHOUSE OF THE BIG BEND INC: $522,037 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE OF THE BIG BEND INCLighthouse for the Visually Impaired and Blind Inc: $468,551 · Human ServicesLighthouse for the Visually Impaired a…LIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER INC: $399,772 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER INCNEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $112,660 · Human Services+2 more: $58,847 · Human ServicesConklin Davis Center for the Visually Impaired Inc: $650,868 · HealthConklin Davi…MANA-SOTA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC: $164,777 · HealthMANA-SOTA LI…INDEPENDENCE FOR THE BLIND OF WEST FLORIDA INC: $389,063 · Employment
Other$3,759,464Human Services$2,515,149Health$815,645Employment$389,063

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $1,124,761 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $953,282 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $680,139 over 7y, 13% of budgetConklin Davis Center for the Visually Impaired Inc: $650,868 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND OF THE PALM BEACHES INC: $587,746 over 7y, 13% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF THE BIG BEND INC: $522,037 over 7y, 12% of budgetFLORIDA CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $503,577 over 7y, 19% of budgetLighthouse for the Visually Impaired and Blind Inc: $468,551 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER INC: $399,772 over 7y, 12% of budgetINDEPENDENCE FOR THE BLIND OF WEST FLORIDA INC: $389,063 over 7y, 15% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF PINELLAS INC: $361,492 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetTAMPA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC: $181,422 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetMANA-SOTA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC: $164,777 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetNEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $112,660 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetMIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $57,957 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFlorida State College at Jacksonville Foundation Inc: $11,661 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA OUTREACH CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $890 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Williams M M & R P Fd…Publix Super Markets …Hoffa Memorial Founda…W and H Thomas Charit…The Gibney Family Fou…Td Charitable Foundat…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Williams M M & R P Fdn TaFL22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Williams M M & R P Fdn Ta · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Hoffa Memorial Foundation Ttee · W and H Thomas Charitable Trust · The Gibney Family Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home