Nevada · Nonprofit
BLIND CENTER OF NEVADA INC
BLIND CENTER OF NEVADA INC (Nevada) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,828,022 to it, the largest being ENGELSTAD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($6,875,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- NV Energy Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Wynn Resorts Foundationshared funders
- Estelle J Kelsey Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 6% · 2018 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 6% · 2022 1% · 2023 9% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $152k → $6.3M.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 BLIND CENTER OF NEVADA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 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
BLIND CENTER OF NEVADA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 88% · 2019 50% · 2020 76% · 2021 68% · 2022 42% · 2023 80% — 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
40% of BLIND CENTER OF NEVADA 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
63% of BLIND CENTER OF NEVADA INC's grant income comes from Nevada funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- NV Energy Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchNV · backs 96 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Wynn Resorts Foundationshared fundersNV · backs 83 organizations that share your funders
- Estelle J Kelsey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brookreson Marie H Tuwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The E L Cord Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Industries for the Blindportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert S & Dorothy J Keyser Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lavelle Fund for the Blind Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Delta Gamma Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gibney Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tony and Renee Marlon Charitable Foundatshared fundersNV · backs 25 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BLIND CENTER OF NEVADA INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 BLIND CENTER OF NEVADA 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BLIND CENTER OF NEVADA INC?
- BLIND CENTER OF NEVADA INC (Nevada) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,828,022 to it, the largest being ENGELSTAD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($6,875,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLIND CENTER OF NEVADA INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $14,828,022 in grants to BLIND CENTER OF NEVADA INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLIND CENTER OF NEVADA INC?
- ENGELSTAD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,875,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLIND CENTER OF NEVADA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 21funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing