Illinois · Nonprofit
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ILLINOIS
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,287 to it, the largest being LEONA STANFORD VOLLINTINE CHARITABLE TRUST ($123,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $117k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $174k
- Net assets
- $248k
What National Federation of the Blind of Illinois does
Mission
Self-help for the blind
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Program A: Education, Civil Rights, and Self-Organization Operated community outreach offices to provide information to the public about blindness and how to help blind people and to locate blind persons in need of assistance. Provided assistance to blind people to attend seminars and workshops designed to assist the blind in learning methods and techniques of organizing local groups of blind people for self-help and in learning about library services, rehabilitation services, new technology, aids, devices, and other resources and materials. Developed, produced, or distributed in print, Braille, and/or recorded media materials relating to blindness. Provided information to individuals, employers, governmental agencies, and the general public through written, telephone, personal, and media contacts. Developed and strengthened state and local organizations of the blind (self-help and support groups) and provided legal assistance, encouragement, information, or advocacy assistance to blind persons. Worked to improve services of governmental and private agencies established to give services to the blind through consumer input, technical assistance, and monitoring. It is estimated that…
$4,989 spentof which $1,991 as grants5% of program spendingProgram B: Specialized Programs and Services Provided scholarships to blind students. Provided direct assistance to individual blind persons to meet specific needs. Sponsored seminars and other activities to assist parents of blind children. Sponsored seminars and other activities to create better employment opportunities for blind persons. Helped to make available specialized aids, devices, tools, and materials for the blind-Braille writing equipment, measuring devices, white canes, clocks, watches, talking calculators, etc. Operated NEWSLINE for the Blind(R), a free digital talking newspaper service available by telephone for the blind. Provided Braille materials to the blind. Made grants to provide services of the kind described herein and to improve educational, vocational, and cultural opportunities for the blind. The activities described herein potentially benefit all blind persons in this state, and improvements in opportunities here expand opportunities for the half million blind persons in the country as well as creating more opportunities for the blind adults of tomorrow.
$93,575 spentof which $45,159 as grants95% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $98,564.
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 2023 to 2024, from $196k to $232k (+19%).
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.
96% of NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ILLINOIS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $500 → $20k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ILLINOIS’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
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ILLINOIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
29% 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 NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ILLINOIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ILLINOIS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ILLINOIS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ILLINOIS
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ILLINOIS?
- NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,287 to it, the largest being LEONA STANFORD VOLLINTINE CHARITABLE TRUST ($123,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ILLINOIS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $174,287 in grants to NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ILLINOIS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ILLINOIS?
- LEONA STANFORD VOLLINTINE CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $123,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ILLINOIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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