Maryland · Nonprofit
BLIND INDUSTRIES & SERVICES OF MARYLAND
BLIND INDUSTRIES & SERVICES OF MARYLAND (Maryland) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,179 to it, the largest being Abbagadassett Foundation Inc ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $338k
- Net assets
- $16M
What Blind Industries & Services of Maryland does
Mission
We support the blind community by providing stable and rewarding career opportunities, innovative rehabilitation programs, economic and personal independence, and appropriate resources for training and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Industries division, office stores, cutting & sewing divisions, and vending providing employment and vocational training to approximately 172 adult blind and severely multiple disabled blind.
$6,224,930 spent$11,056,744 earned by the program75% of program spendingProgram for rehabilitation, social services and vocational training for the adult blind and severely multiple disabled. Provided training to approximately 1,841 blind individuals through various programs and provided aids & appliances to approximately 526 blind individuals.bism continues to move towards our goal of providing services to people of all ages who are blind or visually impaired by offering the following programs: core program bism's comprehensive orientation, rehabilitation, and empowerment (core) program teaches blind and visually impaired adults the skills of blindness so they can become employed, pursue post-secondary education, and regain control of their lives. Confidence building is an essential element of the program and is reinforced with each accomplishment. Core students are taught by blind instructors and learn non-visual methods in a classroom setting. The curriculum includes braille, long white cane travel, independent living, and assistive computer technology, adjustment to blindness seminars, physical fitness, woodshop, and off-site training. The core program generally requires seven to ten months to complete.core is a residential program and we consider…
$2,128,921 spent$742,825 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,353,851.
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 2019 to 2020, from $59M to $47M (−21%).
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 5% · 2018 5% · 2019 20% · 2020 5% · 2021 6% · 2022 35% · 2023 7% · 2024 4% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of BLIND INDUSTRIES & SERVICES OF MARYLAND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
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
Michael Gosse
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Tyrone Bullock
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $42k → $38k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 INDUSTRIES & SERVICES OF MARYLAND’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
BLIND INDUSTRIES & SERVICES OF MARYLAND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% 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 BLIND INDUSTRIES & SERVICES OF MARYLAND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 66% · 2019 98% · 2020 71% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
14% of BLIND INDUSTRIES & SERVICES OF MARYLAND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
BLIND INDUSTRIES & SERVICES OF MARYLAND draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k 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.
Against its field
BLIND INDUSTRIES & SERVICES OF MARYLAND is better cushioned than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BLIND INDUSTRIES & SERVICES OF MARYLAND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $311.5M on record — $304.9M federal, $6.5M state.
- Department of Justice$184.3M
- Department of Defense$114.6M
- General Services Administration$5.4M
- International Trade Commission$350k
- Department of Commerce$142k
- Department of Agriculture$42k
- MD$6.5M
- DE$232
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 BLIND INDUSTRIES & SERVICES OF MARYLAND
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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
- Maryland Manufacturing Services Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLIND INDUSTRIES & SERVICES OF MARYLAND?
- BLIND INDUSTRIES & SERVICES OF MARYLAND (Maryland) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,179 to it, the largest being Abbagadassett Foundation Inc ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLIND INDUSTRIES & SERVICES OF MARYLAND have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $338,179 in grants to BLIND INDUSTRIES & SERVICES OF MARYLAND, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLIND INDUSTRIES & SERVICES OF MARYLAND?
- Abbagadassett 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 BLIND INDUSTRIES & SERVICES OF MARYLAND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 11 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