Form 990 for tax year 2025

Totals

Total revenue

$70,603

Total expenses

$124,001

Contributions and grants received

$28,234

Grants paid

$16,777

Program service revenue

$13,188

Investment income

$29,181

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$1,352,912

Total liabilities, end of year

$222

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,352,690

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$101,383

Management and general expenses

$22,000

Fundraising expenses

$618

Program service expenses (Part III)

$101,383

Program services were 81.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2025

• CONFERENCE AND CONVENTION: ACB-OHIO HOLDS AN ANNUAL CONVENTION FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR HAVE LOW VISION. IN RECENT YEARS WE HAVE PARTNERED WITH A NEIGHBORING AFFILIATE, ACB-INDIANA. THE THREE-DAY EVENT IN STRONGSVILLE, OHIO ON NOVEMBER 14-16, 2025, WITH SEVENTY-NINE ATTENDING IN PERSON AND SEVENTEEN ATTENDING VIRTUALLY. THE CONFERENCE FEATURED SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS, SOCIAL EVENTS, SPEAKERS, AND A VENDOR HALL. OUR PROGRAM PLANNING COMMITTEE, WHICH IS COMPRISED OF BOARD MEMBERS, METICULOUSLY PLANS ALL ASPECTS OF THE CONVENTION AND SEEKS SPONSORS TO DEFRAY COSTS. THE THEME WAS "CELEBRATE RESISTANCE- AND SESSIONS INCLUDED: BUDGETING TO RETIREMENT AND BEYOND; A BRAILLE TRAIL EXPERIENCE; INDEPENDENT LIVING PANEL; SAFETY POSITIVE (SAFETY POSITIVE FOUNDATION); FINANCIAL LITERACY FOR THE BUSY WORKING ADULT; ACCESSIBLE ONLINE SHOPPING MADE EASY; CPR, AED, AND FIRST-AID; SELF- DEFENSE; AND DRESS FOR SUCCESS A LARGE GROUP WENT TO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME, WHERE THEY EXPERIENCED AUDIO-DESCRIBED TOURS TAILORED TO EACH PAIR OF EXPLORERS THANKS TO ELEVEN VOLUNTEERS FROM THE CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER. AT THE BANQUET, WE PRESENTED FOUR AWARDS TO THOSE WHO WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND TO ADVANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR OHIOANS WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED. THE EVENING ENDED WITH A LIVELY FUNDRAISING AUCTION. WE DOCUMENT ANOTHER ANNUAL EVENT IN FORM 990, PART III, LINE 4D.

  Expenses $28,057 · Revenue $13,188

• MATCHING GRANTS: THROUGH OUR MATCHING GRANTS PROGRAM, ACB-OHIO PROVIDES HALF THE COST (UP TO 1,000) TO HELP OHIOANS WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED AFFORD ADAPTIVE/ACCESSIBLE TECHNOLOGY, WHICH CAN BE QUITE COSTLY. IN 2025, ACB-OHIO AWARDED 17 GRANTS TOTALING OVER 6,000. SEVENTEEN INDIVIDUALS RECEIVED FUNDS TO HELP PAY FOR TECHNOLOGY THAT HELPS THEM LIVE AND WORK INDEPENDENTLY, DEVICES THAT THEY MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO AFFORD OTHERWISE. GRANTS HELPED RECIPIENTS BUY HIGH TECH, LOW TECH, AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. BRUCE TEGOWSKI RECEIVED 278 TO HELP BUY AN ACCESSIBLE PHONE TO ALLOW HIM TO HEAR WEATHER REPORTS AS WELL AS NAVIGATE IN HIS NEIGHBORHOOD. CALVIN LEWIS RECEIVED 415 DOLLARS TO HELP HIM PURCHASE A VIDEO MAGNIFIER THAT WILL HELP HIM RECLAIM INDEPENDENCE AS HE READS STORE FLYERS AND MAIL WITHOUT SUPPORT FROM HIS WIFE. OTHER GRANTS HELPED PAY FOR HIGH POWERED MAGNIFYING GLASSES, AND SMART GLASSES. ONE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE A MEMBER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR A GRANT.

  Expenses $8,024 · Grants $6,777

• ADVOCACY: EACH SPRING, A SMALL GROUP OF ACBO MEMBERS VISIT WASHINGTON, DC FOR A TWO DAY-LONG LEADERSHIP SEMINAR, FOLLOWED BY A DAY-LONG LEGISLATIVE SEMINAR, DURING WHICH THEY LEARN ABOUT PROPOSED LEGISLATION THAT WOULD IMPACT THE LIVES OF PEOPLE WITH BLINDNESS AND LOW VISION. ON THE LAST DAY, THE GROUP GOES TO CAPITOL HILL TO ADVOCATE FOR THESE MEASURES, TALKING WITH REPRESENTATIVES AND THEIR STAFF ABOUT THESE ISSUES. SEVEN OF OUR MEMBERS WENT TO WASHINGTON, DC IN 2025, AND ADVOCATED FOR EQUAL RIGHTS AND EQUAL ACCESS FOR ALL, IMPLORING REPRESENTATIVES TO SUPPORT BILLS FOR THE MEDICAL DEVICE NONVISUAL ACCESSIBILITY ACT WHICH WOULD MAKE CLASS 2 AND CLASS 3 MEDICAL DEVICES FOR HOME OR OUTPATIENT EQUIPMENT SUCH AS GLUCOSE MONITORS, BLOOD PRESSURE HAVE ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES LIKE TEXT TO SPEECH OUTPUT, TACTILE MARKINGS, OR AUDIBLE TONES BUILT IN;\ AND IMPLORING REPRESENTATIVES TO SUPPORT BILLS FOR WEB AND SOFTWARE ACCESSIBILITY AND EXPANDED AUDIO DESCRIPTION ON TV AND STREAMING PLATFORMS TO MAKE POSSIBLE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED TO ACCESS FULLER AND RICHER EXPERIENCE WHEN WATCHING VIDEO PROGRAMS.

  Expenses $1,620

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $63,682 · Grants $10,000

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2025

Filed

16 July 2026

IRS schema version

2025v4.0

Source object

202631989349301313

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