South Carolina · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA
ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA (South Carolina) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,870,981 to it, the largest being ABVI FOUNDATION ($722,746). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $621k
What Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired South Carolina does
Mission
The association serves and supports those with visual needs in south carolina and surrounding areas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The association's various programs include good cheer activities and other social programs designed to assist and aid the visually impaired in the area.
$47,754 spentof which $27,107 as grants$27,103 earned by the program2% of program spendingAbvi offers comprehensive vision rehabilitation and educational services for individuals of all ages throughout south carolina and beyond. For adults, abvi's certified vision specialists provide training in assistive technology, orientation and mobility, skills for daily living, and much more to empower adults with low vision or blindness to achieve their independence goals and to mitigate falls and other mental and physical comorbidities that can accompany vision loss without rehabilitation. Abvi offers three distinct programs for children with low vision or blindness: early intervention (ages 0-3): early intervention services aim to empower the child's first teacher as well as teach vision specific skills to maximize school readiness. The vision institute school-based services (4k-21): our highly qualified teachers serve students in the carolinas in public, charter and private schools by teaching braille, assistive technology, access to the curriculum, and safe, independent travel. Transition services (13-21): transition servicees are for students who need additional support with expanded core curriculum skills to help meet employement or post-secondary educational goals. This…
$1,903,317 spentof which $29,512 as grants$841,548 earned by the program96% of program spendingScholarship assistance for the routine medical care and grooming of guide dogs for members.
$24,608 spentof which $3,962 as grants1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,975,679.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $6.9M to $1.3M (−81%).
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 21% · 2022 19% · 2023 2% · 2024 12% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Chief executive
Courtney Plotner
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $45k → $200k.
10 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA’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
ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 70% · 2019 58% · 2020 45% · 2021 46% · 2022 57% · 2023 24% — 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
63% of ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
93% of ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $565k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA
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In South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Abvi Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA?
- ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA (South Carolina) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,870,981 to it, the largest being ABVI FOUNDATION ($722,746). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,870,981 in grants to ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA?
- ABVI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $722,746 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 30 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