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INDEPENDENCE FOR THE BLIND OF WEST FLORIDA INC
INDEPENDENCE FOR THE BLIND OF WEST FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $454,048 to it, the largest being FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF AGENCIES SERVING THE BLIND INC ($389,063). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $737k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $454k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Independence for the Blind of West Florida Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to teach independent living skills, computer and adaptive technology, and to provide vocational training, and employment-related services to people who are blind or visually impaired so they can achieve maximum independence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The older blind program is designed for blind and visually impaired adults 55 or older whose goals do not include future employment. The primary goal of this program is helping the older blind to maintain or improve their ability to remain independent, return to a full role in the family, participate in the community, address personal needs and goals through specific training in one or more of the following areas: orientation & mobility - training in safe and independent travel; independent living skills - techniques for money management, household maintenance, personal grooming, record keeping, organization, and medication management; access technology - computers and other technology that make things accessible to the blind including word processing, e-mail, and the internet.
$191,710 spent29% of program spendingVocational rehabilitation program - provides instruction to blind and visually impaired individuals who desire to become or remain employed. Instruction includes: employability skills including resume writing; interviewing techniques; job search methods; orientation and mobility skills, computers and technology and activities of daily living.
$186,268 spent28% of program spendingTransition program - a program for youth ages 14 through 21 that is offered year-round after school and on weekends plus as an intensive summer program for planning post-high school life. Training includes: college preparation and/or job readiness skills; safe indoor and outdoor travel skills; cooking and self-care techniques; use of various assistive technology including the use of computers and other devices; polite social interaction and self-advocacy; guidance in understanding vocational interests and values, and actual on-the-job experiences.
$169,953 spent25% of program spendingAdult program activities
$118,920 spent18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $666,851.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.8M to $1.6M (−13%).
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: 2020 13% · 2021 13% · 2022 0% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of INDEPENDENCE FOR THE BLIND OF WEST FLORIDA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $82k.
1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 INDEPENDENCE FOR THE BLIND OF WEST FLORIDA INC’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
INDEPENDENCE FOR THE BLIND OF WEST FLORIDA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 INDEPENDENCE FOR THE BLIND OF WEST FLORIDA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 97% · 2019 80% · 2020 85% · 2021 91% · 2022 76% · 2023 90% — broadly stable.
“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
50% of INDEPENDENCE FOR THE BLIND OF WEST FLORIDA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
98% of INDEPENDENCE FOR THE BLIND OF WEST FLORIDA INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $264 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.
Against its field
INDEPENDENCE FOR THE BLIND OF WEST FLORIDA INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,448 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like INDEPENDENCE FOR THE BLIND OF WEST FLORIDA INC
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE FOR THE BLIND OF WEST FLORIDA INC?
- INDEPENDENCE FOR THE BLIND OF WEST FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $454,048 to it, the largest being FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF AGENCIES SERVING THE BLIND INC ($389,063). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INDEPENDENCE FOR THE BLIND OF WEST FLORIDA INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $454,048 in grants to INDEPENDENCE FOR THE BLIND OF WEST FLORIDA INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INDEPENDENCE FOR THE BLIND OF WEST FLORIDA INC?
- FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF AGENCIES SERVING THE BLIND INC is the largest funder on record, with $389,063 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDEPENDENCE FOR THE BLIND OF WEST FLORIDA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 12 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