Arizona · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN
FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN (Arizona) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,790,392 to it, the largest being Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust ($2,534,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $9.8M
- Net assets
- $30M
What Foundation for Blind Children does
Mission
Foundation for Blind Children's mission is to provide education, tools and services that enable all persons with vision loss to achieve greater independence. Our vision is a world where vision loss is a diagnosis, not a disability. Foundation for Blind Children values exceptional service, advocacy, great work environment, community partnerships and financial responsibility.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The southwest center for assistive technology training (catt sw) began during the 2022-23 fiscal year, but wasn't fully operational until october 2023. Catt sw is a collaboration between the american printing house for the blind (aph) and the alabama institute for deaf and blind, washington state school for the blind, and Foundation for Blind Children. Catt provides assistive technology training to teachers of the visually impaired, utilizing a "train the trainer" model on specific aph assistive technology. The Foundation for Blind Children supports arizona, california, new mexico, utah, colorado, and nevada.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Foundation for Blind Children's school-based program serves students from pre-k to 4th grade, teaching skills aligned with the expanded core curriculum. This enables students with visual impairments to access the same curriculum as their sighted peers. Our ability-based classrooms include related services like physical, occupational, and speech therapy.
$4,761,418 spent$4,020,895 earned by the program37% of program spendingFoundation for Blind Children's itinerant vision teachers travel throughout maricopa county and the navajo nation in northern arizona, providing support to students in various settings, including public, charter, and private schools. They teach compensatory skills like braille, assistive technology, and orientation and mobility, promoting independence and social interaction. Sharp (sports, habilitation, arts, and recreation program) is also a support for our students in the k-middle school setting. Sharp programming provides opportunities for students to meet other peers with visual impairments, learn independence and advocacy skills, experience adaptive recreation activities, and attend field trips around the community. Our sharp program offers additional support for students in grades k-8. Our early intervention program provides resources, support, and guidance to families with children under three who have visual impairments. We offer weekly parent meet-ups, educational workshops, emotional support, and social events. Our family education and support program empowers families to support their child's development.
$2,079,165 spent$1,213,044 earned by the program16% of program spendingFoundation for Blind Children's media center manufactures and distributes braille, large-print and e-text versions of textbooks and classroom worksheets nationwide. Serving over 1,000 registered users, fbc's media center is the largest alternative format provider in the state of arizona.
$2,458,947 spentof which $78,672 as grants$809,196 earned by the program19% of program spendingFoundation for Blind Children's adult services program provides rehabilitation and training for individuals with visual impairments, ages 14 and up, who are registered with arizona vocational rehabilitation. We support teens transitioning to work or college and adults seeking to re-enter the workforce. Our goal is to help individuals with visual impairments achieve employment. The new horizons program supports retirees experiencing vision loss, offering support groups, independent living skills, and orientation and mobility training. The southwest center for assistive technology training (catt sw) is a collaboration between the american printing house for the blind (aph) and the alabama institute for deaf and blind, washington state school for the blind, and Foundation for Blind Children. Catt provides assistive technology training to teachers of the visually impaired, utilizing a "train the trainer" model on specific aph assistive technology. We support arizona, california, new mexico, utah, colorado, and nevada. Foundation for Blind Children offers services at a low vision clinic which maximizes the remaining vision of a visually impaired person. Foundation for Blind Children…
$3,539,564 spentof which $57,227 as grants$2,511,356 earned by the program28% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,839,094.
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 2018 to 2019, from $25M to $28M (+9%).
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 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2021 15% · 2022 12% · 2023 6% · 2024 17% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $404k → $1.3M.
12 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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
FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
51% 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 FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 36% · 2019 35% · 2020 26% · 2021 19% · 2022 73% · 2023 32% — 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
45% of FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN'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
82% of FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $910k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $799k on record — $440k federal, $359k state.
- Department of the Interior$440k
- NJ$334k
- CT$13k
- MA$11k
- DE$493
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 FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN?
- FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN (Arizona) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,790,392 to it, the largest being Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust ($2,534,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $9,790,392 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN?
- Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $2,534,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 74 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