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NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW JERSEY

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW JERSEY (New Jersey) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,654 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($50,100). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$148k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$66k
Net assets
$320k
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What National Federation of the Blind of New Jersey does

Mission

self-help for the blind

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. 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…

    $8,365 spent
    6% of program spending
  2. Program 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.

    $131,035 spentof which $54,742 as grants
    94% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $139,400.

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 ($31k) Expenses 100 ($12k) Net assets 100 ($190k)2021 Revenue 120 ($37k) Expenses 187 ($23k) Net assets 115 ($218k)2022 Revenue 226 ($70k) Expenses 277 ($34k) Net assets 125 ($237k)2023 Revenue 150 ($46k) Expenses 362 ($45k) Net assets 133 ($252k)2024 Revenue 496 ($153k) Expenses 973 ($120k) Net assets 158 ($300k)2025 Revenue 481 ($148k) Expenses 1149 ($142k) Net assets 169 ($320k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (481)Expenses (1149)Net assets (169)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 2023 to 2024, from $252k to $300k (+19%).

$190k
$218k
$237k
$252k
$300k
$320k
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

98% of NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW JERSEY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,975 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.

$18k
’20
$14k
’21
$35k
’22
$2k
’23
$33k
’24
$6k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $160 → $13k.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 NEW JERSEY’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 NEW JERSEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

97% 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 NEW JERSEY.

76%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 63% · 2021 92% · 2022 67% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

97% of NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW JERSEY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from New Jersey funders.

NY
NJ

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

’20
’21
’22
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $64k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW JERSEY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 904 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)37% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW JERSEY

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 Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

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

NJ

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Questions and answers

Who funds NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW JERSEY?
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW JERSEY (New Jersey) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,654 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($50,100). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW JERSEY have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $65,654 in grants to NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW JERSEY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW JERSEY?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF NEW JERSEY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 7 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