Virginia · Nonprofit
BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION
BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION (Virginia) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,000,635 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($208,711). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Blinded Veterans Association does
Mission
To promote the welfare of blinded veterans so that, notwithstanding their disabilities, they may take their rightful place in the community. To preserve and strengthen a spirit of fellowship among blinded veterans so that they may give mutual aid and assistance to one another. To educate the general public so they may understand what blinded veterans may accomplish and how to assist blinded veterans they may encounter in their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public education and communicationthe bva bulletin sits at the heart of all bva national communications and public relations efforts. This is a quarterly periodical sent to all bva members, their families, libraries, health care institutions, veteran service organizations, and va blind rehabilitation service providers for whom the organization has updated contact information. The bulletin educates on past and present issues and events relating specifically, to blinded veterans. It covers general topics about veterans as well as general topics about blindness (I.e. Technology, social issues, etc.). Additionally, bva uses one major trifold brochure to share its message to the organization's stakeholders. Average circulation of these communications resources, in all requisite formats, for this fiscal year alone, exceeded tens of thousands produced and distributed. The bva website received on average 35,000 unique visitors and 93,000 page views during this fiscal year. Most visits originated through the google search engine and 57% of all users were new compared to 47% during the preceding timeframe. The bva website is constantly evolving in an ongoing effort to increase accessibility…
$224,411 spentof which $10,000 as grants$152,462 earned by the program24% of program spendingVeterans service and volunteer veteran service programsthe bva veteran service program consists of 4 national service officers providing services throughout the united states and puerto rico. There is one advocacy veteran officer located at the national headquarters in alexandria, va and the remaining officers work remotely. Bva has developed a national network comprised of cross-accredited service officers located throughout various state and county departments of veterans services offering free services to blinded veterans and their families. Veteran service officers assist blinded veterans and their families throughout the entire life cycle of blindness. They provide critical services such as expert assistance and representation within the veteran's benefits administration (vba) claims processes, assistance, and oversight during the veteran's health administration (vha) blind rehabilitation services processes and provide resources and assistance in obtaining community based services. They help blinded veterans bring focus and direction to their lives, providing inspiration and encouragement. From year to year, the bva veteran service program is responsible for on average 240…
$695,458 spent76% of program spendingAdvocacybva's congressional charter designates it as the organizational advocate for all blinded veterans before the executive and legislative branches of government. Bva's national president, board members, and national staff present annual testimony before the house and senate committees on veterans affairs in an effort to share information and concerns on specialized programs and services offered by the department of veterans affairs to visually impaired and blinded veterans. They also meet periodically with members of congress, their key staff, the department of defense, the white house, and department of veterans affairs officials to inform and educate them regarding the unique and specific needs of blinded and visually impaired veterans across our nation. Bva's educational efforts seek to enhance the specialized rehabilitation programs provided by the department of veterans affairs that assist blinded veterans in the acceptance of and adjustment to vision loss, while helping them acquire the adaptive skills necessary to successfully reintegrate into their families and communities.bva collaborates and partners with recognized industry leaders in advocating for continued and…
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $919,869.
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 2024 to 2025, from $14M to $16M (+13%).
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 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Donald Overton Jr
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 21 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $106k → $152k.
7 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
54% 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 BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 54% · 2019 63% · 2020 32% · 2021 43% · 2022 35% · 2023 40% — growing more concentrated.
“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
24% of BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $325k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $54k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$54k
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 BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 32 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION: 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 BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION?
- BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION (Virginia) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,000,635 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($208,711). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $1,000,635 in grants to BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $208,711 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 55 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