Kentucky · Nonprofit
AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC
AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 91 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,124,921 to it, the largest being MCFERRAN MEM FBO APH TRUW ($1,074,335). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $40M
- Funders on record
- 91
- Grants received
- $6.1M
- Net assets
- $190M
What American Printing House for the Blind Inc does
Mission
Manufacture/distribution of products/services for people who are blind or visually impaired, including braille, large type books and educational aids
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Production of products and services for blind and visually impaired people, including administration of government programs
$24,765,216 spent$10,132,418 earned by the program96% of program spendingExpert curated resource hub for people who are blind or visually impaired, their families, and the professionals who serve them
$807,642 spent3% of program spendingProduction and distribution of braille literature to people who are blind or visually impaired
$173,096 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $25,745,954.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $172M to $199M (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 46% · 2018 38% · 2019 33% · 2020 42% · 2021 43% · 2022 42% · 2023 68% · 2024 55% · 2025 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Phoebe A Wood
Chairman, treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $127k → $981k.
11 of 91 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 91 funders by total. 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
AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
26% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 36% · 2019 43% · 2020 23% · 2021 29% · 2022 22% · 2023 22% — 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
50% of AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27.9M on record — $27.8M federal, $60k state.
- Department of Education$27.8M
- CT$47k
- OR$11k
- VT$3k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Goodmaps Inc (Fka Access Explorer Inc) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND 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 AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC?
- AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 91 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,124,921 to it, the largest being MCFERRAN MEM FBO APH TRUW ($1,074,335). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC have?
- IRS filings report 91 organizations giving $6,124,921 in grants to AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC, 56 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC?
- MCFERRAN MEM FBO APH TRUW is the largest funder on record, with $1,074,335 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 91 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing