California · Nonprofit
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.
Against its field
COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED's revenue fell 29% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,881 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Rosi Cerri Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Brookreson Marie H Tuwportfolio match
- Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Incportfolio match
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.
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 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 (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $372 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 360 organizations that share them.
- Rosi Cerri Foundation Incshared funderslocalCA · backs 17 organizations that share your funders · funds 23 organizations near you
- Brookreson Marie H Tuwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- L C Industries Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gibney Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Industries for the Blindportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William G and Helen C Hoffman Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Delta Gamma Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lavelle Fund for the Blind Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Allene Reuss Memorial Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Star One Credit Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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.
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 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing