· Public charity
National Industries for the Blind
To enhance the opportunities for the economic and personal independence of people who are blind, primarily through creating, sustaining, and improving employment.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $417,893 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $515,196 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $97,303 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $350k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VISIONSERVE ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $33,164 |
| INDUSTRIES OF THE BLIND INC | $30,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $30,000 |
| CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND | $30,000 |
| INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND INC | $30,000 |
| GEORGIA INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND | $30,000 |
| CENTRAL ASSOC FT BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $30,000 |
| IFB SOLUTIONS | $30,000 |
| BEYOND VISION | $30,000 |
| GOODWILL VISION ENTERPRISES | $21,503 |
| BEYOND VISION AIB INC | $15,419 |
| THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC | $15,125 |
| WEST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND | $13,240 |
| OUTLOOK-NEBRASKA INC | $11,836 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TLTHE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $365k · revenue +21%
- IOINDUSTRIES OF THE BLIND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $311k · revenue +237%
- SASAN ANTONIO LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND7× · 2017–2023 · $253k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- ESEMPIRE STATE EMPLOYMENT RESOURCES FOR THE BLIND INCone grant, 2018 · $255k · revenue -6%
- EFENVISION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue -18%
- AIALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR DEAF & BLIND FOUNDone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue -74%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Train and employ people with severe disabilities that are in need of training, employment and services.
To enhance the opportunities for the economic and personal independence of people who are blind, low vision, or visually impaired primarily through creating, sustaining, and improving employment.
BLIND, Inc. was founded by blind Minnesotans who believe that, given the proper training and opportunity, blind people can lead normal, independent, and fulfilled lives. We believe that blindness is respectable and that with proper…
To inspire individuals who are blind to pursue their maximum potential through creating, sustaining and improving employment while providing the highest quality goods and services.
To Enrich the Lives of Visually Impaired Persons and their Caregivers while providing Preventative Services and Education.
The mission of the florida center for the blind is to foster hope, confidence and independence in individuals with visual impairments; and to educate the community about preventing vision loss.
New vision for independence, inc. (new vision) is a nationally accredited 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization providing rehabilitation, community education, and support services for people with low vision or blindness, and their families to…
Assist individuals who are blind or visually impaired.
The wisconsin council of the blind and visually impaired's mission is to promote the dignity and empowerment of people in wisconsin who are blind and visually impaired by providing services, advocating legislation, and educating the…
Assist individuals who are blind and visually impaired to flourish within our communities and prevent blindness.
Improve the well-being of all blind & visually impaired people by supporting american council of the blind (acb)
Our mission is to create hope and opportunities for people impacted by sight loss to embrace and enrich their personal, social, and economic lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Industries for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alex Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 66 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 60 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CORE CAREER ↗
- Who funds Winston Salem Industries for the Blind Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND VISION INC ↗
- Who funds INDUSTRIES OF THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE STATE EMPLOYMENT RESOURCES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds NEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds LIONS VOLUNTEER BLIND INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHAPOINTE ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND IN NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds LIONS INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds TRAVIS ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds ENVISION INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR VISION REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Tarrant County Association For the Blind ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND AT ALBANY INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE VOCATIONAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE BLIND ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND COUNTY BLIND ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BOSMA INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds BLIND INDUSTRIES & SERVICES OF MARYLAND ↗
- Who funds THE ARKANSAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds VISIONSERVE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds ENVISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND VISION - AIB INC ↗
- Who funds OUTLOOK-NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds BESTWORK INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Lavelle Fund for the Blind Inc · The Gibney Family Foundation Inc · Delta Gamma Foundation · Uniquesource Products & Services · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Matthew 25 Ministries Inc · Mutual of America Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization National Industries for the Blind funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Blind Industries & Services of Maryland — 100% of income from government
- Bestwork Industries for the Blind Inc — 100% of income from government
- Newview Oklahoma Inc — 45% of income from government
- Lighthouse Works Inc — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.