Arkansas · Nonprofit
WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND
WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND (Arkansas) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,543,104 to it, the largest being JE AND LE MABEE FOUNDATION INC ($884,174). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $11M
What World Services for the Blind does
Mission
To enable people who are blind or visually impaired to function independently, live full, productive lives with dignity and self-respect, and promote positive public awareness of blindness by providing individualized independent living or job training programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Served approximately 168 individuals through a complete personal adjustment program, thirteen vocational courses, a vision rehabilitation clinic, an assistive technology learning center, job placement assistance, and a college preparatory program.
$2,716,919 spent$3,041,935 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,716,919.
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 $8.5M to $16M (+82%).
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 0% · 2021 3% · 2022 15% · 2023 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% 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
Eric Yarberry
CEO
Board chair
Noel Strauss
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $345k → $101k.
4 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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: $3.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest World Services for the Blind Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND raised.
From the IRS filings of WORLD SERVICES 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
WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
28% 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 WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 58% · 2020 65% · 2021 57% · 2022 59% · 2023 25% — 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
38% of WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Arkansas, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $634k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $407k on record — $212k federal, $195k state.
- Delta Regional Authority$212k
- OR$105k
- CT$90k
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 WORLD SERVICES 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 Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- World Services for the Blind Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORLD SERVICES 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND?
- WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND (Arkansas) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,543,104 to it, the largest being JE AND LE MABEE FOUNDATION INC ($884,174). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $2,543,104 in grants to WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND?
- JE AND LE MABEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $884,174 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 27 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