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WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND INCORPORATED

EIN 71-0208511 LITTLE ROCK, AR

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Revenue 2023
$3,313,309
Expenses 2023
$2,843,513

Program services were 85.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P860
Classification
1200
Street
2811 FAIR PARK BLVD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

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.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO EMPOWER PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED IN THE UNITED STATES AND AROUND THE WORLD TO ACHIEVE SUSTAINABLE INDEPENDENCE.

  • SERVED APPROXIMATELY 125 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.

    Expenses $2,431,746 · Revenue $2,851,842

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Eric Yarberry

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $94,137
    From this org
    $85,833
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,304
    Hours/week
    35 + 5 related
  • Peter Kumpe

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Amanda Beaudoin

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $114,840
    From this org
    $95,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,840
    Hours/week
    35 + 5 related
  • Noel Strauss

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Elizabeth Crooke

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Casi Runnells

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Landrum

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kenneth Reed

    IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • James Coleman

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Allen McDowell

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bob Williams

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Don Noland

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tawnya Buster

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bill Biggs

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Terry Sterzik

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,313,309
    Expenses
    $2,843,513
    Contributions
    $397,819
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,830,014
    Expenses
    $2,329,264
    Contributions
    $1,454,554
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,201,645
    Expenses
    $4,871,910
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,569,074
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,232,163
    Expenses
    $2,291,346
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,545,733
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,984,925
    Expenses
    $2,217,366
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,944,172
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,085,909
    Expenses
    $3,017,643
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,681,282
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,979,199
    Expenses
    $3,000,324
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,715,255
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,993,493
    Expenses
    $2,637,636
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,839,771
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,480,474
    Expenses
    $2,520,842
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,827,747
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $362,229
    Expenses
    $2,854,124
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,698,758
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,713,771
    Expenses
    $3,445,125
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,410,765

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2023 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.