Ohio · Nonprofit
AKRON BLIND CENTER & WORKSHOP INC
AKRON BLIND CENTER & WORKSHOP INC (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $607,079 to it, the largest being JESSIE M MENSCH TRUST UW ($228,286). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $146k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $607k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Akron Blind Center & Workshop Inc does
Mission
To be a beacon for the visually challenged through resources, programs, and classes and to enrich educational, life and independence skill training, volunteerism, employment, equality, and outreach opportunities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The akron blind center has many youth programs for low vision and blind children.we offer a braille bridge program for students to take over the summer. We also sponsor kids to attend a summer camp for the blind and visually impaired. We have a social program so they can be with like- challenged individuals and parents can network to know they are not alone. A backpack program provides materials and resources specifically for visually impaired primary school children. A special scholarship program is available for college students who qualify according to impairment needs. We have a mentor program which involves a youth or recently sight impaired individual being paired with a non-sighted member to learn the ropes and have support. Our motto is we can and we will. The akron blind center has adult classes during the week. Classes include braille, computer (with screen reading programs), keyboard and braille typing training, wellness, exercise, crafting, current events, support/ focus groups, skills training, music classes and much more we currently offer 25 classes over the course of tuesday, wednesdays and thursdays.
$109,235 spent$19,143 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $109,235.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.2M to $1.8M (−15%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $23k → $88k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AKRON BLIND CENTER & WORKSHOP INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AKRON BLIND CENTER & WORKSHOP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 63% · 2019 50% · 2020 60% · 2021 34% · 2022 49% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
67% of AKRON BLIND CENTER & WORKSHOP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
55% of AKRON BLIND CENTER & WORKSHOP INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
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In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AKRON BLIND CENTER & WORKSHOP INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AKRON BLIND CENTER & WORKSHOP INC?
- AKRON BLIND CENTER & WORKSHOP INC (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $607,079 to it, the largest being JESSIE M MENSCH TRUST UW ($228,286). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AKRON BLIND CENTER & WORKSHOP INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $607,079 in grants to AKRON BLIND CENTER & WORKSHOP INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AKRON BLIND CENTER & WORKSHOP INC?
- JESSIE M MENSCH TRUST UW is the largest funder on record, with $228,286 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AKRON BLIND CENTER & WORKSHOP INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing