New York · Private foundation
Lavelle Fund for the Blind Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 74
- Grants FY2025
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $486,137
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 59
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $174M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Lavelle Fund for the Blind Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $773k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 52 | $5.9M | 21% |
| FY2024 | 59 | $5.9M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 54 | $5.6M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $6.5M | 31% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $5.8M | 47% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $5.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perkins School for the Blind | $3,237,300 | 6 | 1% |
| Helen Keller International | $2,707,549 | 6 | 1% |
| Visionsservices for the Blind and Visually Impaired | $1,760,848 | 6 | 3% |
| Beneficent Technology Inc | $1,093,903 | 5 | 2% |
| Dominican University New York | $828,507 | 6 | 0% |
| Seva Foundation | $821,821 | 4 | 4% |
| American Printing House for the Blind Inc | $601,255 | 4 | 1% |
| Kings Bay Ym-Ywha Inc | $555,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Visionserve Alliance Inc | $553,719 | 4 | 22% |
| The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations | $510,385 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 90 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lavelle Fund for the Blind Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 82 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation · The Gibney Family Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Sarah Decoizart Perpetual Charitable Tr · Allene Reuss Memorial Trust · National Industries for the Blind · The New York Community Trust · Delta Gamma Foundation · William G and Helen C Hoffman Fdn · Consumer Technology Association Foundation · The Barker Welfare Foundation · Altman Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lavelle Fund for the Blind Inc
- How much does Lavelle Fund for the Blind Inc give?
- Lavelle Fund for the Blind Inc reported 74 grants totaling $5,911,208 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 59 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Lavelle Fund for the Blind Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (38%), Education (32%), International (13%).
- Who are Lavelle Fund for the Blind Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Perkins School for the Blind ($3.2M), Helen Keller International ($2.7M), Visionsservices for the Blind and Visually Impaired ($1.8M).
- Does Lavelle Fund for the Blind Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lavelle Fund for the Blind Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lavelle Fund for the Blind Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation, The Gibney Family Foundation Inc, Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc.
- Where is Lavelle Fund for the Blind Inc based?
- Lavelle Fund for the Blind Inc is based in NY.
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