New York · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION FOR VISION REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT INC
ASSOCIATION FOR VISION REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $462,684 to it, the largest being GEORGE A AND MARGARET MEE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($150,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $463k
- Net assets
- $13M
What Association for Vision Rehabilitation and Employment Inc does
Mission
To create opportunities for success and independence with people who are blind or visually impaired through vision rehabilitation services and employment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The association is a not for profit that employs 67 employees, 34 of whom are visually impaired at all levels of the organization.the business division/contract service division employs 49 individuals, 33 of whom are visually impaired. Quality employment for visually impaired individuals is created in roll stock paper conversion, switchboard, assembly, and related jobs.
$2,831,673 spent$3,979,513 earned by the program83% of program spendingThe vision rehabilitation services division provides a wide range of independent living and employment services for people of all ages with a vision impairment. The association register listed 1,800 individuals with a vision impairment in the current fiscal year.
$590,564 spent$205,035 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,422,237.
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 2021 to 2022, from $16M to $14M (−10%).
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% · 2022 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of ASSOCIATION FOR VISION REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Kenny Fernald
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $24k → $43k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 VISION REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT 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
ASSOCIATION FOR VISION REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 VISION REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 97% · 2019 98% · 2020 85% · 2021 81% · 2022 74% · 2023 47% — 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
43% of ASSOCIATION FOR VISION REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT INC'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
70% of ASSOCIATION FOR VISION REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k 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.
Against its field
ASSOCIATION FOR VISION REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ASSOCIATION FOR VISION REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $21.4M on record.
- Department of Defense$9.2M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$7.3M
- Department of Commerce$4.1M
- Office of Personnel Management$410k
- Department of Homeland Security$321k
- Department of Agriculture$47k
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 ASSOCIATION FOR VISION REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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
- Foundation for Vision Rehabilitation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSOCIATION FOR VISION REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT 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 ASSOCIATION FOR VISION REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT INC?
- ASSOCIATION FOR VISION REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $462,684 to it, the largest being GEORGE A AND MARGARET MEE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($150,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION FOR VISION REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $462,684 in grants to ASSOCIATION FOR VISION REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION FOR VISION REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT INC?
- GEORGE A AND MARGARET MEE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION FOR VISION REHABILITATION AND EMPLOYMENT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 12 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