Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
VISABILITY
VISABILITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,730,990 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($1,518,732). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Visability does
Mission
Provide innovative training and tools for people who are blind or visually impaired to help them achieve their goals and dreams
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Rehabilitation and industries programs - residental and community-based personal adjustment services that enable people to learn how to use their other senses along with specialized equipment and procedures to perform the usual activities of daily living. Comprehensive, interdisciplinary low vision services that enable people with vision impairments to learn how to effectively use their vision in their daily activities. Providing access technology services and competitive employment opportunities for individuals with vision loss.
$2,505,562 spent$1,390,944 earned by the program65% of program spendingVocational services - vocational assessment, training, placement and employment support which permit people with vision impairments to work successfully in the community or in specialized work programs within the facility.
$1,010,407 spent$1,090,935 earned by the program26% of program spendingCommunity and support program - coordinated and comprehensive information and referral and case management services which enable people to identify, consider, and select services which they feel will be of greatest assistance to them. Information and screening services designed to prevent loss of vision.
$354,550 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,870,519.
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 2021 to 2022, from $38M to $26M (−33%).
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: 2017 15% · 2018 13% · 2019 14% · 2020 13% · 2022 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of VISABILITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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.
Board chair
Valerie Faeth
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 28 funders, grant income fell $686k → $662k.
9 of 52 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $903k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Pba Products & Services Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money VISABILITY raised.
From the IRS filings of VISABILITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
VISABILITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
62% 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 VISABILITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 37% · 2019 33% · 2020 33% · 2021 38% · 2022 35% · 2023 30% — 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
56% of VISABILITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
99% of VISABILITY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
VISABILITY's revenue grew 43% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like VISABILITY
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Pba Products and Services Inc · exempt
- Med-Tec Textitles Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VISABILITY: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds VISABILITY?
- VISABILITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,730,990 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($1,518,732). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VISABILITY have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $5,730,990 in grants to VISABILITY, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VISABILITY?
- THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,518,732 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VISABILITY 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 52 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