Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED
CENTER FOR BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $158,379 to it, the largest being EDWARD & KATHLEEN KELLY FAMILY FDN ($45,100). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $576k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $158k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Center for Blind & Visually Impaired does
Mission
Assists and teaches the visually impaired community of delaware county to live safely and independently in their homes and community. The organization provides services to those with reduced vision in delaware and chester counties by providing vision screenings, low vision services, and public education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Computer access technology program provides professional access technology based assessment, training and technical support services to numerous blind and visually impaired state agency customers, the veterans administration, and private pay blind and visually impaired individuals. Such individuals have indicated employment, academic and/or personal independence based computer goals that they wish to achieve. The total number of clients served during 2025 was 243.
$336,341 spent$170,878 earned by the program50% of program spendingSpecialized services provides shopping assistance, transportation with sighted guide and life skills training. The objective is to promote independence for blind and visually impaired persons. Total service hours for 2025 totaled 2577 with 74 clients.
$264,578 spent39% of program spendingIdeal residential summer program for 6 visually impaired high school students to prepare to transition to life after graduation.
$68,763 spent$78,570 earned by the program10% of program spendingOther program services include low vision services, access technology, & vision rehab therapy. Prevention of blindness program, rehabilitation center, residential rehabilitation, and home-bound rehabilitation. Total hours for those services were 248. Total screenings for prevention of blindness totaled 1698 in 2025 with 209 clients needing referrals for additional testing. Eye safety education was provided to 2013 clients.
$48,683 spent7% of program spendingadaptive aids income
$742 earned by the programRent expenses offset against rent income
$-40,707 spent-6% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $677,658.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.5M to $1.7M (+11%).
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.
37% of CENTER FOR BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 6 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
Laurie Staph
CEO
Board chair
Cindy Falotico
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $6k → $48k.
3 of 8 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 CENTER FOR BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED’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
CENTER FOR BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
32% 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 CENTER FOR BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 52% · 2021 63% · 2022 50% · 2023 79% — 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
60% of CENTER FOR BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 63% 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
65% of CENTER FOR BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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
CENTER FOR BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED has grown faster than half of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER FOR BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
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 4 related entities
- Center for the Blind and Disabled · exempt
- Keystone Independence Management · exempt
- Keystone Blind Association · exempt
- keystone independence mgmt · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED?
- CENTER FOR BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $158,379 to it, the largest being EDWARD & KATHLEEN KELLY FAMILY FDN ($45,100). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $158,379 in grants to CENTER FOR BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED?
- EDWARD & KATHLEEN KELLY FAMILY FDN is the largest funder on record, with $45,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 8 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing