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KEYSTONE VOCATIONAL SERVICES INC

KEYSTONE VOCATIONAL SERVICES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $89,404 to it, the largest being NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND ($89,404). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.6M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$89k
Net assets
$6.0M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Keystone Vocational Services Inc does

Mission

To provide vocational/training to blind and disabled people through the manufacture and assembly of tools & helmets, and a mailroom contract.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Mailroom services is a federal contract that provides document handling, retention and scheduled purging, document destruction, and full mail processing center operations for incoming and outgoing mail. Other responsibilities include receiving, tracking, sorting, printing, compiling, scanning, material manifesting, and delivery of mail. During 2025, total employees for this program were 31 including 20 with disabilities.

    $2,807,076 spent$3,540,814 earned by the program
    79% of program spending
  2. Contribution to keystone blind association

    $374,000 spentof which $374,000 as grants
    11% of program spending
  3. Provide vocational training and employment services to blind and visually impaired people by the manufacture of tools sold to the public, state and federal markets. In addition, helmets are assembled and sold in the public and federal markets. Total employees for this program totaled 13 during 2025, including 13 with disabilities.

    $356,193 spent$1,853,701 earned by the program
    10% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,537,269.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($5.2M) Expenses 100 ($4.7M) Net assets 100 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 89 ($4.7M) Expenses 75 ($3.5M) Net assets 156 ($3.3M)2022 Revenue 76 ($4.0M) Expenses 73 ($3.4M) Net assets 168 ($3.6M)2023 Revenue 84 ($4.4M) Expenses 76 ($3.6M) Net assets 213 ($4.5M)2024 Revenue 86 ($4.5M) Expenses 80 ($3.8M) Net assets 252 ($5.4M)2025 Revenue 87 ($4.6M) Expenses 87 ($4.1M) Net assets 282 ($6.0M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (87)Expenses (87)Net assets (282)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 2022 to 2023, from $3.8M to $4.9M (+27%).

$2.9M
$3.7M
$3.8M
$4.9M
$5.7M
$6.3M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of KEYSTONE VOCATIONAL SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,616 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$523k
’20
$1.1M
’21
$553k
’22
$800k
’23
$720k
’24
$440k
’25
8.2
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

Laurie Staph

CEO

Board chair

Tom Kaikis

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed11129888
Joined·+2+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·13110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $11k → $23k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of KEYSTONE VOCATIONAL SERVICES 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.

Where its funders are

KEYSTONE VOCATIONAL SERVICES INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state in all.

VA

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

KEYSTONE VOCATIONAL SERVICES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,060 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve8.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,060 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding KEYSTONE VOCATIONAL SERVICES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $43.1M on record.

Federal$43.1M
grants $0contracts $43.1M
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26
Top agencies
  • Department of Defense$27.2M
  • Office of Personnel Management$15.9M

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 KEYSTONE VOCATIONAL SERVICES INC

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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Keystone Independence Management · exempt
  • keystone independence management · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds KEYSTONE VOCATIONAL SERVICES INC?
KEYSTONE VOCATIONAL SERVICES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $89,404 to it, the largest being NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND ($89,404). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KEYSTONE VOCATIONAL SERVICES INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $89,404 in grants to KEYSTONE VOCATIONAL SERVICES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KEYSTONE VOCATIONAL SERVICES INC?
NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND is the largest funder on record, with $89,404 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KEYSTONE VOCATIONAL SERVICES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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