Wisconsin · Nonprofit
INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC
INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,126 to it, the largest being National Park Foundation ($95,126). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 440 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 440 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
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.
- Northwest Side Community Development Corporationlocal
- Uniquesource Products & Servicesportfolio match
- Brookreson Marie H Tuwportfolio 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.
0% of INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED 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
INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC.
“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
INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- Northwest Side Community Development CorporationlocalWI · funds 81 organizations near you
- Uniquesource Products & Servicesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brookreson Marie H Tuwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lavelle Fund for the Blind Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- L C Industries Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Delta Gamma Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sourceamericaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Allene Reuss Memorial Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Boston Center for Blind Children Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gibney Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brewers Community Foundation InclocalWI · funds 97 organizations near you
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.
Government funding INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $471.1M on record.
- Department of Defense$340.0M
- Department of Commerce$72.8M
- Department of the Interior$23.9M
- Department of Homeland Security$20.0M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$5.3M
- Department of the Treasury$2.9M
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 INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Top Promotions Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: 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 INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC?
- INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,126 to it, the largest being National Park Foundation ($95,126). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $125,126 in grants to INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC.
- Who is the largest funder of INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC?
- National Park Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $95,126 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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