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ARIZONA INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND

ARIZONA INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,337 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$13M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$22M
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Arizona Industries for the Blind does

Mission

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.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Distribution- provided employment and training to forty-six blind/visually-impaired individuals in distribution and warehousing while supporting all branches of our military. Consistently receive cpars ratings of "exceptional" for our inventory control, customer service, and on-time delivery.

    $5,963,191 spent$8,940,716 earned by the program
    74% of program spending
  2. Base supply stores - provided employment and training to seven blind individuals in a retail environment while supporting our war fighters.

    $1,823,724 spent$2,569,413 earned by the program
    23% of program spending
  3. Document imaging -provided employment and training to one blind individual in converting paper documents to electronic. Also provided employment and training to two blind individuals in administration and management positions.

    $306,418 spent$623,754 earned by the program
    4% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,093,333.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($9.9M) Expenses 100 ($8.9M) Net assets 100 ($10M)2020 Revenue 105 ($10M) Expenses 104 ($9.3M) Net assets 110 ($11M)2021 Revenue 114 ($11M) Expenses 98 ($8.7M) Net assets 135 ($14M)2022 Revenue 109 ($11M) Expenses 105 ($9.3M) Net assets 149 ($15M)2023 Revenue 123 ($12M) Expenses 108 ($9.6M) Net assets 175 ($18M)2024 Revenue 120 ($12M) Expenses 112 ($10.0M) Net assets 194 ($19M)2025 Revenue 127 ($13M) Expenses 115 ($10M) Net assets 217 ($22M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (127)Expenses (115)Net assets (217)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $17M to $26M (+49%).

$12M
$14M
$16M
$17M
$26M
$27M
$29M
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of ARIZONA INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 457 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$979k
’19
$1.1M
’20
$2.5M
’21
$1.4M
’22
$2.6M
’23
$1.9M
’24
$2.3M
’25
22
months of
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.

Chief executive

Chris Lafollette

President & CEO

Board chair

Ruth O'Brien

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed9888788
Joined·+1+0+0+0+1+1
No longer listed·200101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $39 → $94.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
2
1
2
1

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 ARIZONA INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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

ARIZONA INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 ARIZONA INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND.

97%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of ARIZONA INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ARIZONA INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 274 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · top quartile
Months of reserve22.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding ARIZONA INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $142.5M on record.

Federal$142.5M
grants $0contracts $142.5M
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Top agencies
  • Department of Defense$120.3M
  • General Services Administration$22.2M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$58k

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 ARIZONA INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND

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 Arizona

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
63%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ARIZONA INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND?
ARIZONA INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,337 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ARIZONA INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $10,337 in grants to ARIZONA INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARIZONA INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARIZONA INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 3 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