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CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC

CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $684,670 to it, the largest being INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ($270,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$655k
Funders on record
36
Grants received
$685k
Net assets
$1.1M
20/36 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Center for Deaf-Blind Persons Inc does

Mission

To provide services needed to minimize the devastating effects of combined vision and hearing loss upon the individual and family.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide support, training, advocacy, community outreach, and referral to individuals who are deaf-blind and their families.

    $547,145 spent$380,162 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $547,145.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($456k) Expenses 100 ($595k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 147 ($669k) Expenses 107 ($634k) Net assets 98 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 130 ($593k) Expenses 107 ($635k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 117 ($533k) Expenses 95 ($564k) Net assets 105 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 123 ($563k) Expenses 89 ($532k) Net assets 113 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 112 ($509k) Expenses 96 ($570k) Net assets 97 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 106 ($485k) Expenses 111 ($660k) Net assets 90 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 143 ($655k) Expenses 118 ($702k) Net assets 86 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (143)Expenses (118)Net assets (86)Peer revenue range

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 $1.4M to $1.3M (−9%).

$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.3M
$1.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

29% of CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$138k
’17
$35k
’18
−$42k
’19
−$31k
’20
$31k
’21
−$61k
’22
−$175k
’23
−$47k
’24
0.9
months of
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

Adrian Klenz

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed999109998
Joined·+1+1+1+0+1+1+2
No longer listed·1101113
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $40k → $113k.

3 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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

CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

43% 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 DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC.

39%
largest funder
59%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 23% · 2019 61% · 2020 42% · 2021 38% · 2022 44% · 2023 40% — 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

65% of CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

99% of CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

IL
WI
NY
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−7% · below the median
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 19%Fundraising 3%

Governance

8
board members
88%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

62%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC?
CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $684,670 to it, the largest being INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ($270,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC have?
IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $684,670 in grants to CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC?
INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC is the largest funder on record, with $270,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 36 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