Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,179,906 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($1,708,500). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36M
- Funders on record
- 64
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $258M
What Overbrook School for the Blind does
Mission
To develop and deliver education that enhances the options available for students with visual impairments and other challenges so that they have the greatest opportunity to experience active and fulfilling lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The school serves students who are blind or visually impaired, many of whom have additional disabilities, on a day and residential basis. Students on campus range from ages 6 through 21 and are grouped by age into the early childhood, elementary, middle school, high school and school-to-work programs. All students are taught in small class settings with a teacher and 1-2 para-educators. Students receive instruction in the pa core standards as well as the expanded core curriculum for students with visual impairments. All materials are presented based on the results of a learning media assessment to determine the need for braille, large print, speech output and/or assistive technology. Students' programs are individualized based on their individual education programs as determined by a multidisciplinary team.osb also serves children ages birth-five and their families in the home or community settings which could include day care centers, preschool programs, or specialized settings. Our itinerant program serves school age students who attend public and charter schools.all instruction is focused on preparing our students to be as independent as possible so that they have the greatest…
$25,936,168 spent$23,265,195 earned by the program91% of program spendingOperation of early intervention, pre-vocational and habilitation, and work experience programs for students who are visually impaired. The early intervention program provides services to children from birth to age five and their families. The programs occur in the child's home, day care center or on location at the school for children who require additional services. The goals of the program are to empower families with the knowledge and resources needed to be advocates for their children, to help the children learn to explore their environments through play and functional activities and to help the children learn to be as independent as possible. The school-to-work program provides intensive instruction for 19-21 year olds. Students receive instruction in communication skills, social skills, daily living, vocational or work experience skills, leisure skills and assistive technology. The work experience program prepares students through classroom lessons and vocational experiences at the school and at area businesses for the adult work world they will enter after graduation. The emphasis is on t.e.c.h., training, employment, careers and habilitation. The mission of the program is…
$2,537,193 spentof which $41,978 as grants$1,434,695 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $28,473,361.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $197M to $241M (+22%).
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.
2% of OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Todd Reeves
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $70k → $1.3M.
10 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 funders by total. 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
OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 36% · 2019 55% · 2020 45% · 2021 36% · 2022 42% · 2023 72% — 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.
How long its funders stay
70% of OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $225k on record.
- TUITION OUT/ST OR PRIVATE$225k
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 OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND?
- OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,179,906 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($1,708,500). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND have?
- IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $4,179,906 in grants to OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,708,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 64 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