Texas · Nonprofit
ASSN FOR EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED
ASSN FOR EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,858 to it, the largest being LAVELLE FUND FOR THE BLIND INC ($119,858). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $130k
- Net assets
- $335k
What Assn for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired does
Mission
Education and rehabilitation of the blind and visually impaired.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Member activities - conferences, publications and continuing education to assist in the promotion and development of education and rehabilitation services affecting people who are blind or visually impaired.
$419,425 spent$459,012 earned by the program44% of program spendingMeetings and conferences - public education advocacy to provide information and assistance on programs affecting people who are blind or visually impaired.
$461,852 spent$573,153 earned by the program49% of program spendingProfessional development - conferences and continuing education for the education and rehabilitation of people who are blind or visually impaired.
$64,902 spent$75,098 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $946,179.
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 2022 to 2023, from $710k to $550k (−23%).
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: 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of ASSN FOR EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Lee Sonnenberg
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $0.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 ASSN FOR EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED’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
ASSN FOR EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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
“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
ASSN FOR EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ASSN FOR EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED is better cushioned than half of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ASSN FOR EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSN FOR EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSN FOR EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED?
- ASSN FOR EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,858 to it, the largest being LAVELLE FUND FOR THE BLIND INC ($119,858). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSN FOR EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $129,858 in grants to ASSN FOR EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSN FOR EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED?
- LAVELLE FUND FOR THE BLIND INC is the largest funder on record, with $119,858 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSN FOR EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2017–2024), 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