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COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED

COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,572 to it, the largest being MILDRED LUCK LEWIS FOUNDATION ($30,200). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$392k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$68k
Net assets
$2.0M
5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Community Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired does

Mission

To provide the means by which people who are visually impaired can improve and sustain their capabilities and potentials to re-establish purpose and self-esteem in their lives and in society, while leading independent lives.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Community Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired offers a variety of programs and services that enable individuals who are visually impaired or blind to be as independent as their situations allow and participate fully in society. Services are free through partnerships with california department of rehabilitation blind field services and the older individuals who are blind program, grants from san joaquin community foundation and rotary club of stockton, and the generosity of the community. The programs include:information and referral:connects individuals who are visually impaired with a network of ancillary services and programs-pacific gas and electric company, san joaquin county department of aging, social security administration, state department of rehabilitation, california state library service, veterans administration, and others-that enable them to live independently and productively.adjustment to vision loss:provides useful and practical information that assists with the emotional adjustment to vision loss. Participants obtain information about local community resources and other services for people who are blind or visually impaired. Designed to increase…

    $439,050 spent$218,861 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $439,050.

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 ($553k) Expenses 100 ($616k) Net assets 100 ($2.7M)2018 Revenue 109 ($605k) Expenses 101 ($624k) Net assets 104 ($2.8M)2019 Revenue 116 ($639k) Expenses 101 ($624k) Net assets 100 ($2.7M)2020 Revenue 78 ($431k) Expenses 100 ($613k) Net assets 93 ($2.5M)2021 Revenue 87 ($483k) Expenses 96 ($590k) Net assets 102 ($2.7M)2022 Revenue 88 ($487k) Expenses 89 ($546k) Net assets 84 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 50 ($277k) Expenses 83 ($511k) Net assets 82 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 83 ($457k) Expenses 100 ($617k) Net assets 81 ($2.2M)2025 Revenue 71 ($392k) Expenses 103 ($632k) Net assets 75 ($2.0M)
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Revenue (71)Expenses (103)Net assets (75)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 2021 to 2022, from $2.9M to $2.3M (−20%).

$2.7M
$2.8M
$2.7M
$2.6M
$2.9M
$2.3M
$2.5M
$2.4M
$2.2M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 14% · 2021 22% · 2022 15% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

34% of COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED’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. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$63k
’17
−$19k
’18
$15k
’19
−$182k
’20
−$107k
’21
−$58k
’22
−$234k
’23
−$159k
’24
−$240k
’25
1.2
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

Elsie Hirata

Exec director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1412131291210108
Joined·+0+1+1+0+4+0+2+0
No longer listed·20231222
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $24k → $3k.

1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND 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

COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

30% 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 COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED.

45%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 100% · 2019 62% · 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — 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.

Where its funders are

88% of COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED's grant income comes from California funders.

WA
CA

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

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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $372 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED's revenue fell 29% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−61% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like COMMUNITY 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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 25%Fundraising 6%

Governance

6
board members
117%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

85%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED?
COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,572 to it, the largest being MILDRED LUCK LEWIS FOUNDATION ($30,200). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $67,572 in grants to COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED?
MILDRED LUCK LEWIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY 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 California. 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 7 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