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Industries for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Industries for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc

To create and grow employment opportunities for people who are blind or visually impaired.

$216k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$110k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.3MHuman Services$160kEducation$42kAnimals$21k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $198,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $216,087 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $18,087 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
$45,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$88M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VISION FORWARD$110,000
CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS$45,000
ABLE AUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT$43,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $235k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ENVISION FOUNDATION: $80k → 16%ENVISION FOUNDATION: $80k → 16%ENVISION FOUNDATION: $75k → 16%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 7 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$1.5M
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
-6%

Still filing today

86%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
    7× · 2017–2024 · $676k · revenue +1%
  • AUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $295k · revenue +17%
  • CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $270k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Wisconsin Madison
    one grant, 2020 · $24k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
  • CL
    Camp Leo Council of SC Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 10 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $676,460 · HealthVISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATEDAUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC: $295,186 · HealthAUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INCCENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC: $270,000 · HealthCENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC+1 more: $11,900 · HealthENVISION FOUNDATION INC: $235,000 · Human ServicesENVISION FOUNDAT…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $25,146 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin Madison: $24,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,568 · OtherRESCUE 22 FOUNDATION INC: $20,593 · AnimalsCamp Leo Council of SC Inc: $5,000 · Youth Development
Health$1,253,546Human Services$235,000Other$54,714Animals$20,593Youth Development$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $676,460 over 7y, 8.6% of budgetAUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC: $295,186 over 7y, 17% of budgetCENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC: $270,000 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetENVISION FOUNDATION INC: $235,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetRESCUE 22 FOUNDATION INC: $20,593 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetWISCONSIN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND AND VISUA: $11,900 over 3y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds AUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RESCUE 22 FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND AND VISUA ↗
  • Who funds Camp Leo Council of SC Inc ↗

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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Industries for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Industries for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 10 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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