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.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Gar Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Mary and Dr George L Demetros Charitableshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Mary S & David C Corbin Foundationshared funderslocal
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.
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
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Gar Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchPA · backs 65 organizations that share your funders · funds 102 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Mary and Dr George L Demetros Charitableshared funderslocalportfolio matchOH · backs 31 organizations that share your funders · funds 37 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mary S & David C Corbin Foundationshared funderslocalOH · backs 62 organizations that share your funders · funds 75 organizations near you
- Brookreson Marie H Tuwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alpha Phi Alpha Foundation of Akronportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nemeth Julius L Pfdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gibney Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Delta Gamma Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Rc Musson and Katharine Musson Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Welty Family Foundationshared funderslocalOH · backs 82 organizations that share your funders · funds 109 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like AKRON BLIND CENTER & WORKSHOP INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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.
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 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing