SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED
EIN 46-0348713 ABERDEEN, SD
- Revenue 2024
- $65,498
- Expenses 2024
- $22,322
Program services were 47.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- G41
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- 605 14TH AVE SE
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 · 2024
Mission
To fund social, recreational, and educational opportunities for students at the South Dakota School for the Blind and Visually Impaired as well as other visually impaired students throughout the state.
Activities or mission (Part I)
We fund social, recreational, and educational opportunities for visually impaired students at the South Dakota School for the Blind and Visually Impaired as well as throughout the entire state through outreach activities.
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Family Weekend. An annual weekend retreat for students and their parents to becme acquainted with the school facilities as well as teachers, also to have a bonding experience among parents of blind children.
Expenses $3,213
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School Garden. Constructed a garden area on the school grounds for students to have hands-on experience of working soil, planting and harvesting produce.
Expenses $1,898
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Christmas Program Luncheon. A social event for students, parents and community members to enjoy a meal together following the annual school Christmas program.
Expenses $1,800
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Other program service include: Artist-in-Residence who visits the school for 3 days, a goalball tournament, a visa card for student use, several items of classroom learning devices, public relation ( coffee and T shirts).
Expenses $3,679
As filed on the 2024 return.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Sari Merriman
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Nicole Olson
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Carol Ginsbach
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Curt Wischmeier
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Dawn Brusch
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Carmen Meyer
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Renae Rausch
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jane Ann Rayman
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Roland Pond
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Lonald Gellhaus
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $65,498
- Expenses
- $22,322
- Contributions
- $26,633
- Grants paid
- $10,590
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2023
- Revenue
- $34,439
- Expenses
- $23,702
- Contributions
- $14,066
- Grants paid
- $14,906
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2022
- Revenue
- $33,074
- Expenses
- $12,643
- Contributions
- $11,698
- Grants paid
- $4,300
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $50,263
- Expenses
- $15,257
- Assets (EOY)
- $788,228
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $154,977
- Expenses
- $12,871
- Assets (EOY)
- $828,037
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2016
- Tax period
- 1 May 2016 to 30 April 2017
- Principal officer
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Doris Stusiak
- Mailing address
- 423 Seventeenth Avenue SEAberdeen SD 57401
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.
Grants made
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SD SCHOOL FOR BLIND AND VISUALLY IM
$14,906
2023 STUDENT ENRICHMENT
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SD School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
$8,590
2024 Various grants: Visiting artist working with students in music or art. Family Weekend previously mentioned. Support athletic events at school. Funded a gift card students can use to have experience in buying with a credit card. Improving school facilities with a garden. Several different items of classroom technology and equipment to aid in teaching.
Grants received
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ASCENDIUM EDUCATION SOLUTIONS INC
$100,000
2025 GOOD NEIGHBOR GIVING 2025
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$7,500
2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
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2025 GENERAL SUPPORT
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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.