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.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $38M
What Blind Center of Nevada Inc does
Mission
The blind center of nevada is a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting blind and visually impaired persons of all ages in reaching their highest physical, social, intellectual, and economic potential.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The blind center of nevada provides facilities and transportation to blind and visually impaired persons in the las vegas nevada area. The members of the blind center are provided with vocational and other training to help them re-integrate into the workforce. They are provided meals and rides on a daily basis to help them attend their classes at the blind center. The blind center also provides employment opportunities to the blind and visually impaired through its exempt purpose industries that allow its members to accustom themselves into the workforce. The center also provides limited counseling and social interaction for its members.
$3,592,541 spent$4,896,917 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,592,541.
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 2022 to 2023, from $19M to $31M (+60%).
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
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.
Board chair
Jeff W Davis
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
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.
Organizations like BLIND CENTER OF NEVADA 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 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.
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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.
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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 21 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