Ohio · Nonprofit
Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired
Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired (Ohio) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,082,838 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati Foundation ($934,468). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $36M
What Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired does
Mission
To empower people who are blind or visually to lead active, productive and independent lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Clovernook Industrial Manufacturing is under contract with the Library of Congress, distributes books in adaptive format, including audio, and related materials for the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Social Enterprises provides meaningful jobs to individuals who are blind or visually impaired. Our associates produce top-quality file folders in a light-manufacturing environment and also offer competitive assembly, packaging and shipping to meet unique company specifications. The Clovernook Braille Printing House is recognized as one of the largest volume producers of braille in North America, producing more than 20 million pages annually. Clovernook's Braille Printing House produces a variety of braille materials that include books and magazines for the National Library Service (NLS), a division of the Library of Congress, textbook materials, tactile graphics, religious periodicals, menus, business cards, instruction manuals and more.
$5,110,954 spent$3,675,976 earned by the program64% of program spendingMulti-State Center East is under contract with the Library of Congress, distributes books in adaptive format, including audio, and related materials for the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled.
$1,785,664 spent$2,509,442 earned by the program22% of program spendingClovernook Program Services twice monthly offers vision screening services for low income and uninsured adults. Also, in partnership with a local Children's Hospital, Clovernook provides a Pediatric Low Vision Program which is fast becoming a national model for integrated services to children with permanent vision loss. Annually Clovernook Center hosts the Ohio Regional Braille Challenge competition for K-12 students.
$1,063,672 spent$34,246 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,960,290.
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 2020 to 2021, from $31M to $39M (+27%).
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: 2021 7% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired’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. 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
Christopher Faust
President/CEO - Exit 4/25
Board chair
Regina M Gehm
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $231k → $584k.
6 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
49% 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 Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 52% · 2019 41% · 2020 48% · 2021 30% · 2022 31% · 2023 34% — 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
42% of Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
80% of Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $315k 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
Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $86k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$86k
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 Clovernook Center For the Blind and 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired?
- Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired (Ohio) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,082,838 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati Foundation ($934,468). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $3,082,838 in grants to Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired?
- United Way of Greater Cincinnati Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $934,468 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 49 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