New York · Nonprofit
XAVIER SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND
XAVIER SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND (New York) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,435,063 to it, the largest being THERESA & EDWARD O'TOOLE FOUNDATION ($800,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Xavier Society for the Blind does
Mission
Provide reading materials of a religious nature to the sight impaired. The society maintains an extensive braille library from which publications are provided to clients on demand. In addition, the society maintains a lending library of books in digital media format, with at least three copies of every title for daily circulation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Xavier Society for the Blind's (the "society") materials enable clients to develop and practice their faith. The materials include the sunday mass readings. In 2024, approximately 3,499 titles, 1,975 to the braille library and 1,524 audio titles. In addition to sacred scripture, manuals of prayer, religious textbooks, etc.. The society's principal ongoing services are to maintain a lending library and provide books and periodicals to the sight impaired.
$901,443 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $901,443.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $15M to $17M (+13%).
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 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Malachy Fallon
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $16k → $213k.
4 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 XAVIER SOCIETY 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
XAVIER SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 45% · 2019 46% · 2020 60% · 2021 62% · 2022 49% · 2023 56% — 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
64% of XAVIER SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND'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
XAVIER SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101k 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.
Organizations like XAVIER SOCIETY 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
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 XAVIER SOCIETY 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 XAVIER SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND?
- XAVIER SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND (New York) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,435,063 to it, the largest being THERESA & EDWARD O'TOOLE FOUNDATION ($800,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does XAVIER SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,435,063 in grants to XAVIER SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of XAVIER SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND?
- THERESA & EDWARD O'TOOLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like XAVIER SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing