ST LOUIS SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

G410

Classification

1000

Street

8770 MANCHESTER RD

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 · 2025

• VISION REHABILITATION SERVICES: INDIVIDUALIZED VISION REHABILITATION SERVICES ARE PROVIDED TO INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE VISUALLY IMPAIRED OR BLIND DUE TO MACULAR DEGENERATION, DIABETIC RETINOPATHY, GLAUCOMA, CATARACT, TRAUMATIC HEAD INJURY AND OTHER MEDICAL CONDITIONS. REHABILITATIVE NEEDS ADDRESSED INCLUDE HOW TO BEST USE REMAINING VISION; ADAPTIVE DAILY LIVING SKILLS TRAINING; PREVENTION OF INJURIES; EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES; ADAPTIVE COMMUNICATION; AND FAMILY SUPPORT. GROUP SERVICES ADDRESS PSYCHOLOGICAL, EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL ISOLATION ISSUES AFFECTING AN INDIVIDUAL'S ABILITY TO LIVE IN A SAFE, HEALTHY AND INDEPENDENT MANNER. THE MAJORITY OF INDIVIDUALS ARE REFERRED BY THEIR OPHTHALMOLOGIST OR OTHER EYE CARE SPECIALIST AND MANY ARE DIAGNOSED WITH MULTIPLE EYE CONDITIONS. INDIVIDUALS RECEIVE VISION REHABILITATION SERVICES FROM THE SOCIETY'S STATE OR NATIONALLY CERTIFIED AND/OR LICENSED LOW VISION THERAPISTS, ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST, ORIENTATION & MOBILITY SPECIALISTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST AND OTHER RELATED PROFESSIONALS. INDIVIDUALIZED REHABILITATIVE TRAINING, VARIOUS AIDS, EQUIPMENT, DEVICES, TECHNOLOGY AND ADAPTIVE TECHNIQUES ARE USED TO ASSIST IN ADJUSTING TO VISION LOSS OR BLINDNESS IN ORDER TO RESTORE OR MAINTAIN INDEPENDENCE IN DAILY LIVING ACTIVITES. SERVICES ARE PROVIDED AT THE SOCIETY'S OFFICES AND IN-HOME. BECAUSE MOST INDIVIDUALS ARE NOT ABLE TO DRIVE DUE TO THEIR VISION LOSS, THE SOCIETY OFFICES ARE PURPOSELY LOCATED ALONG KEY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ROUTES. IN ADDITION, THE SOCIETY PROVIDES TRANSPORTAION ASSISTANCE TO ENSURE ALL INDIVIDUALS, REGARDLESS OF INCOME, HAVE ACCESS TO INDIVIDUALIED VISION REHABILITATION SERVICES. BECAUSE MOST VISION REHABILITATION SERVICES AND LOW VISION AIDS ARE NOT COVERED BY INSURANCE OR MEDICARE, CARE SERVICES, DEVICES OR OTHER VISION REHBILITATION AIDS CAN BE PROVIDED TO INDIVIDUALS AT REDUCED COST IF THERE IS AN INABILITY TO PAY.

  Expenses $465,523 · Revenue $114,379

• THE MAJORITY OF INDIVIDUALS REFERRED TO THE AGENCY ARE EXPERIENCING VISION LOSS DUE TO AN AGE-RELATED OR HEREDITARY EYE CONDITION. THROUGH A LOW VISION CLINIC (DREWS LOW VISION CLINIC) AND LOW VISION SERVICES, EVALUATIONS ARE PROVIDED BY A LICENSED DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY AND CERTIFIED LOW VISION THERAPIST OR OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST. FUNCTIONAL EYE EXAMS, ADAPTIVE AIDS AND EQUIPMENT ADDRESS WAYS TO BEST UTILIZE REMAINING VISION. THESE ASSIST INDIVIDUALS IN COMPLETING DAILY LIVING TASKS INCLUDING MANAGMENT OF TAKING MEDICATION, READING, AND WATCHING TELEVISION. OVER 200 DIFFERENT LOW VISION AIDS ARE AVAILABE AND ARE PROVIDED TO INDIVIDUALS AT NO CHARGE IF THEY ARE UNABLE TO AFFORD SUCH DEVICES. AN EQUIPMENT LOAN PROGRAM IS ALSO AVAILABLE OF THOSE UNABLE TO AFFORD RECOMMENDED LOW VISION EQUIPMENT. IN-HOME FOLLOW UP BY THE LOW VISION THERAPIST OR OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST PROVIDES REHABILITATIVE LOW VISION TRAINING AND ENSURES THE INDIVIDUAL WILL BEST USE RECOMMENDED LOW VISION EQUIPMENT/AIDS. TRANSPORTATION ASSISTANCE IS PROVIDED TO ANY INDIVIDUAL NEEDING HELP IN GETTING TO THE DREWS LOW VISION CLINIC.

  Expenses $659,517 · Revenue $162,044

• PROVIDING SPEAKERS, LITERATURE, SEMINARS AND OTHER PUBLIC EDUCATION ACTIVITIES TO COMMUNITY GROUPS; PUBLICATIONS AND DISSEMINATION OF MATERIALS FOCUSED ON HUMAN INTEREST STORIES, VISION LOSS AND DIFFERENT EYE CONDITIONS; SIGHTED, BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED VOLUNTEERS ASSIST THE AGENCY AND THE INDIVIDUALS SERVED THROUGH ITS PROGRAMS AND SERVICES.

  Expenses $407,295 · Revenue $100,072

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $3,332,745

  Expenses

  $2,080,888

  Contributions

  $1,848,658

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $71,200

  Expenses

  $2,009,487

  Contributions

  $967,587

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,796,032

  Expenses

  $1,792,285

  Contributions

  $830,113

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $3,468,167

  Expenses

  $1,771,795

  Contributions

  $2,507,925

  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

  $3,202,136

  Expenses

  $1,612,077

  Assets (EOY)

  $19,259,060

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,517,997

  Expenses

  $1,438,987

  Assets (EOY)

  $17,294,931

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,140,862

  Expenses

  $1,789,920

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,478,738

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,274,556

  Expenses

  $1,807,872

  Assets (EOY)

  $15,010,756

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,583,827

  Expenses

  $1,728,875

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,252,388

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,306,807

  Expenses

  $1,760,635

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,410,634

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

• UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC

  $84,399

  2022 · ALL - Community Stability and Crisis Response; AWD - Community Stability and Crisis Response

• UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC

  $81,248

  2023 · ALL - Health and Well-being

• LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND

  $76,020

  2023 · FUNDING OF FULL TIME OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST AND PART TIME MARKETING SPECIALIST.

• UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC

  $73,123

  2024 · ALL-Community Stability and Crisis Response

• LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND

  $54,392

  2024 · FUNDING OF FULL TIME OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST AND PART TIME MARKETING SPECIALIST.

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $31,775

  2023 · HEALTH

• LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND

  $28,785

  2024 · PROVIDE FUNDING FOR CCTV ASSISTANCE (NEED BASED).

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $28,350

  2024 · HEALTH

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $28,350

  2022 · HEALTH

• FORGOOD INC

  $22,656

  2022 · UNRESTRICTED

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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