Michigan · Nonprofit
Penrickton Center for Blind Children
Penrickton Center for Blind Children (Michigan) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,140,401 to it, the largest being MOLINELLO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($370,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Penrickton Center for Blind Children does
Mission
Penrickton is a unique, private non-profit agency, providing five-day residential, day care and consultation/evaluation services to children 1 through 12 who are visually impaired and multi-disabled. Individualized programs for every child in our care are designed to promote independence in all aspects of daily living. Penrickton utilizes its experience and expertise to teach and serve families, children and professionals through support services, education and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Residential and day care of blind, multi-disabled children and public education regarding blindness and disability in children.
$2,644,998 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,644,998.
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 $12M to $14M (+21%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 6% · 2022 5% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of Penrickton Center for Blind Children’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Patricia Obrzut
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $147k → $301k.
15 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 Penrickton Center for Blind Children’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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
Penrickton Center for Blind Children has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
45% 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 Penrickton Center for Blind Children.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 19% · 2019 20% · 2020 16% · 2021 19% · 2022 20% · 2023 17% — diversifying over time.
“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
67% of Penrickton Center for Blind Children's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
92% of Penrickton Center for Blind Children's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $698k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
Penrickton Center for Blind Children runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Penrickton Center for Blind Children
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Penrickton Center for Blind Children: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Penrickton Center for Blind Children?
- Penrickton Center for Blind Children (Michigan) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,140,401 to it, the largest being MOLINELLO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($370,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Penrickton Center for Blind Children have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $2,140,401 in grants to Penrickton Center for Blind Children, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Penrickton Center for Blind Children?
- MOLINELLO FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $370,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Penrickton Center for Blind Children find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Penrickton Center for Blind Children →
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 66 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