Kentucky · Nonprofit
VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC
VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,053,059 to it, the largest being THE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC ($1,301,746). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 92
- Grants received
- $7.1M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Visually Imparied Preschool Services Inc does
Mission
Vips empowers families by providing educational excellence to young children with blindness or low vision in order to build a strong foundation for reaching their highest potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Early intervention:vips is a unique non-profit agency in kentucky and indiana specifically dedicated to meeting the critical early intervention needs of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers who are blind or visually impaired. Vips employs highly trained, certified teachers of the visually impaired and early childhood educators who work with families in their homes, teaching parents how to educate by capitalizing on their children's strengths. Vips is the only agency in kentucky serving the birth to 5- year-old population and birth to 3-year old population in indiana.
$1,745,427 spent$1,114,281 earned by the program63% of program spendingFamily services:vips provides support through training for families, attending meetings and doctors' visits to assure families understand information shared regarding the needs of and services for their children. Vips regularly hosts parent empowerment programs as well as other events where families are able to develop a sense of community with other vips families. Vips hosts an annual family retreat, a weekend where parents can learn alongside other parents in similar situation raising a child who is blind or visually impaired.
$314,206 spent$194,524 earned by the program11% of program spendingKids town preschool:kids town preschool at vips in louisville is a center-based program providing an extensive educational experience in a developmentally appropriate and braille-rich environment. Vips has grown from eight children in 1985 to over 750 children in fiscal year 2024. Vips successfully transitions children served through first steps and kids town preschool into their next educational settings. Kids town preschool at vips louisville campus hosts visitors from across the world wanting to learn more about the expanded core curriculum and best practices. Kids town preschool is a kentucky 5-star center, a test site for american printing house for blind's new research and materials, is accredited nationally by aer. Vips is considered a leader in the field of preschool education for the blind and visually impaired; other states benchmark their model against ours.
$689,500 spent$422,435 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,749,133.
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.
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 $3.2M to $4.8M (+48%).
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: 2020 2% · 2021 10% · 2023 3% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Diane Nelson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $474k → $817k.
16 of 92 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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: $2k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Msw Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 92 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
VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
71% 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 VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 38% · 2019 34% · 2020 24% · 2021 23% · 2022 21% · 2023 22% — 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
45% of VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC'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
71% of VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $955k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Government funding VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12k on record.
- Department of Defense$12k
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 VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC: 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 VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC?
- VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,053,059 to it, the largest being THE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC ($1,301,746). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 92 organizations giving $7,053,059 in grants to VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC, 67 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC?
- THE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,301,746 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 92 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