New York · Nonprofit
LAVELLE FUND FOR THE BLIND INC
LAVELLE FUND FOR THE BLIND INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $174M
What Lavelle Fund for the Blind Inc does
Program
The brother james kearney scholarship program for the blind aims to help make quality undergraduate and graduate education affordable for u.s. Residents who are legally blind and financially needy.by assisting individuals who are legally blind or visually impaired in attaining quality education, the scholarship program furthers the fund's exempt purpose by assisting individuals who are legally blind or visually-impaired live independent and productive lives. The scholarship program is intended to support a legally blind or visually impaired student's full-time program of study leading to a 4-year (bachelor's) degree or graduate degree program. In 2025, the fund awarded a total of $259,688 in scholarship grants. The cost of administering the scholarship program was $70,988.
$70,988 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $163M to $129M (−21%).
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
Susan G Olivo
Executive director & CEO
Board chair
Louis D Pizzarello Md Mph
Board chair & director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
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 LAVELLE FUND FOR THE BLIND 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
100% of LAVELLE FUND FOR THE BLIND INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
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.
Against its field
LAVELLE FUND FOR THE BLIND INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 452 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 452 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding LAVELLE FUND FOR THE BLIND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- Voc. Training-Blind Persons$3k
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 LAVELLE FUND FOR THE BLIND 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LAVELLE FUND FOR THE BLIND INC?
- LAVELLE FUND FOR THE BLIND INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAVELLE FUND FOR THE BLIND INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to LAVELLE FUND FOR THE BLIND INC.
- Who is the largest funder of LAVELLE FUND FOR THE BLIND INC?
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAVELLE FUND FOR THE BLIND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing