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Tarrant County Association For the Blind

Tarrant County Association For the Blind (Texas) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,009,152 to it, the largest being MARY TABB AND CLYDE B THOMPSON TRUST ($1,801,712). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$6.8M
Revenue FY2024
30
Funders on record
$3.0M
Grants received
$10M
Net assets
21/30 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%

Against its field

Tarrant County Association For the Blind runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,253 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve3.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,253 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.9M) Expenses 100 ($6.5M) Net assets 100 ($6.7M)2018 Revenue 86 ($5.9M) Expenses 96 ($6.3M) Net assets 92 ($6.1M)2019 Revenue 86 ($6.0M) Expenses 90 ($5.9M) Net assets 98 ($6.5M)2020 Revenue 68 ($4.7M) Expenses 77 ($5.0M) Net assets 96 ($6.4M)2021 Revenue 65 ($4.5M) Expenses 82 ($5.3M) Net assets 87 ($5.8M)2022 Revenue 82 ($5.7M) Expenses 94 ($6.1M) Net assets 81 ($5.4M)2023 Revenue 108 ($7.5M) Expenses 84 ($5.5M) Net assets 114 ($7.7M)2024 Revenue 98 ($6.8M) Expenses 89 ($5.8M) Net assets 156 ($10M)
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Revenue (98)Expenses (89)Net assets (156)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

16% of Tarrant County Association For the Blind’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,740 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$357k
17
$371k
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$67k
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$317k
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$823k
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$489k
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$2.0M
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$932k
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3.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $42k → $260k.

6 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $3.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Tarrant County Association for the Blind Endowment Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Tarrant County Association For the Blind raised.

From the IRS filings of Tarrant County Association For the Blind’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

Tarrant County Association For the Blind leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

60%
largest funder
70%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 28% · 2019 34% · 2020 29% · 2021 20% · 2022 21% · 2023 23%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

41% of Tarrant County Association For the Blind's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

Tarrant County Association For the Blind draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 7 states in all.

IL
NV
OH
NE
VA
TX
FL

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

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Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $123k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 30 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding Tarrant County Association For the Blind receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $32.9M on record.

Federal$32.9M
grants $0contracts $32.9M
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Top agencies
  • Department of Defense$32.9M
  • Department of Agriculture$8k

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 Tarrant County Association For the Blind

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Texas

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 21%Fundraising 2%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

66%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TX

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Tarr Cnty Assoc for the Blind Endow Fund · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Tarrant County Association For the Blind: 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.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Tarrant County Association For the Blind?
Tarrant County Association For the Blind (Texas) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,009,152 to it, the largest being MARY TABB AND CLYDE B THOMPSON TRUST ($1,801,712). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Tarrant County Association For the Blind have?
IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $3,009,152 in grants to Tarrant County Association For the Blind, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Tarrant County Association For the Blind?
MARY TABB AND CLYDE B THOMPSON TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,801,712 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Tarrant County Association For the Blind find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 30funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing