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FLORIDA OUTREACH CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC

EIN 55-0827232 PALM SPRINGS, FL

Revenue 2025
$568,615
Expenses 2025
$422,153

Program services were 95.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P86
Classification
1000
Street
2315 S CONGRESS AVE

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

Mission

FLORIDA OUTREACH CENTER FOR THE BLIND IS ORGANIZED AND OPERATED TO RAISE FUNDS IN ORDER TO PROVIDE VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE, TRAINING IN VARIOUS INDEPENDENT LIVING SKILLS IN A FULL-SERVCE TRAINING FACILITY

  • INDEPENDENT LIVING AND BRAILLE: STUDENTS LEARN HOW TO ORGANIZE THEIR MEDICATIONS SHOP FOR AND COOK MEALS, IDENTIFY MONEY, LABEL HOUSEHOLD ITEMS, AND MAINTAIN THEIR HOME. THESE SKILLS ALLOW THEM TO ACCOMPISH DAILY TASKS AND LIVE INDEPENDENTLY. STUDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO LEARN BRAILLE SINCE STUDIES SHOW THAT A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF BLIND PERSONS ARE SUCCESSFUL WITH THIS ABILITY. BRAILLE PROVIDES A MEANS OF RECORDING INFORMATION FOR PERSONAL USE, LABELING DOCUMENTS FOR EASY IDENTIFICATION, AND MARKING EQUIPMENT FOR UNASSISTED OPERATION.

    Expenses $161,793

  • ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY TRAINING:THROUGH ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY TRAINING, STUDENTS LEARN HOW TO OVERCOME OBSTACLES AND TO BECOME CAPABLE TRAVELERS. THIS OPENS THE DOOR FOR CLIENTS TO PURSUE FURTHER EDUCATION AND CONFIDENTLY ACCESS TRANSPORTATION TO GO TO WORK, MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS, SHOPPING CENTERS, AND OTHER PLACES OF INTEREST. WITH THE ABILITY TO TRAVEL SAFELY AND MINIMIZE FALLS, STUDENTS NO LONGER NEED TO FEEL LIKE A PRISONER IN THEIR OWN HOME

    Expenses $80,895

  • ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY: STUDENTS ARE OFFERED TRAINING IN OPERATING COMPUTERS, TABLETS, NOTE TAKERS AND SMART PHONES USING THE LATEST ACCESSIBLITY FEATURES AND ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE. THEY LEARN THE TECHNOLOGY SKILLS THAT ARE NEEDED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE CLASSROOM, ON THE JOB, OR FOR THEIR OWN ENJOYMENT.

    Expenses $161,793

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • FRANK SEIDMAN

    BOARD MEMEBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BOBBIE HOWARD-DAVIS

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • DREW WRIGHT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • EDNA STRNAD

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • THOMAS TOBIN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LOU FERRI

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • OZZIE OSBORNE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHELLE ROGERS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DENNIS STEVENSON

    2ND VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NICOLE D FINCHAM-SHEHAN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ARTHUR MEHR

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CAROLYN LAPP

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $65,978
    From this org
    $65,978
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $568,615
    Expenses
    $422,153
    Contributions
    $536,599
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $402,783
    Expenses
    $349,846
    Contributions
    $366,933
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $401,170
    Expenses
    $304,102
    Contributions
    $380,073
    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
    $365,404
    Expenses
    $238,138
    Assets (EOY)
    $948,688

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $263,696
    Expenses
    $230,013
    Assets (EOY)
    $843,420

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $729,740
    Expenses
    $206,685
    Assets (EOY)
    $747,315

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $312,009
    Expenses
    $187,645
    Assets (EOY)
    $224,260

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $214,154
    Expenses
    $131,271
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,706

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $115,465
    Expenses
    $121,965
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,823

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $125,926
    Expenses
    $125,787
    Assets (EOY)
    $47,673

  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $109,721
    Expenses
    $110,107
    Assets (EOY)
    $36,616

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $108,992
    Expenses
    $87,696
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,056

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

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

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.