Tennessee · Nonprofit
BLIND-VISUALLY IMPAIRED EARLY SERVICES OF TENNESSE
BLIND-VISUALLY IMPAIRED EARLY SERVICES OF TENNESSE (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,633 to it, the largest being NASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION ($18,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $203k
What Blind-Visually Impaired Early Services of Tennesse does
Mission
Blind early services tn ensures that families are empowered and equipped through specialized programs of support to provide young children who are blind or low vision their absolute best start.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our best start program provides early intervention and educational services through certified teachers of the visually impaired (ctvis) or specially trained developmental therapists or families with children with blindness or low-vision. An estimated 5,414 services hours were delivered to more than 300 families in over 50 counties.
$878,855 spent100% of program spendingFirst offered in the winter of 2022, our best advocate program provides quartterly virtual tranng free to parents/caregivers that introduces idea part b law and helps to prepare for the childs transition into school/part b services.
Our best screening program is in the pilot stage phase with the goal of decreasing the age of referral to early intervention vision services. We have also added occupational therapy to our services.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $878,855.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $163k to $310k (+91%).
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: 2022 46% · 2023 60% · 2024 70% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of BLIND-VISUALLY IMPAIRED EARLY SERVICES OF TENNESSE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Alison Clougherty
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $174 → $9k.
2 of 4 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-VISUALLY IMPAIRED EARLY SERVICES OF TENNESSE’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-VISUALLY IMPAIRED EARLY SERVICES OF TENNESSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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-VISUALLY IMPAIRED EARLY SERVICES OF TENNESSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 48% · 2023 93% — 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.
Where its funders are
51% of BLIND-VISUALLY IMPAIRED EARLY SERVICES OF TENNESSE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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
BLIND-VISUALLY IMPAIRED EARLY SERVICES OF TENNESSE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BLIND-VISUALLY IMPAIRED EARLY SERVICES OF TENNESSE
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLIND-VISUALLY IMPAIRED EARLY SERVICES OF TENNESSE: 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-VISUALLY IMPAIRED EARLY SERVICES OF TENNESSE?
- BLIND-VISUALLY IMPAIRED EARLY SERVICES OF TENNESSE (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,633 to it, the largest being NASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION ($18,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLIND-VISUALLY IMPAIRED EARLY SERVICES OF TENNESSE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $42,633 in grants to BLIND-VISUALLY IMPAIRED EARLY SERVICES OF TENNESSE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLIND-VISUALLY IMPAIRED EARLY SERVICES OF TENNESSE?
- NASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $18,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLIND-VISUALLY IMPAIRED EARLY SERVICES OF TENNESSE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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