NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF MINNESOTA INC

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1000

Street

2801 HENNEPIN AVENUE 126

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

• Program A: Education, Civil Rights, and Self-Organization - Operated community outreach offices to provide information to the public about blindness and how to help blind people and to locate blind persons in need of assistance. Provided assistance to blind people to attend seminars and workshops designed to assist the blind in learning methods and techniques of organizing local groups of blind people for self-help and in learning about library services, rehabilitation services, new technology, aids, devices, and other resources and materials. Developed, produced, or distributed in print, Braille, and/or recorded media materials relating to blindness. Provided information to individuals, employers, governmental agencies, and the general public through written, telephone, personal, and media contacts. Developed and strengthened state and local organizations of the blind (self-help and support groups) and provided legal assistance, encouragement, information, or advocacy assistance to blind persons. Worked to improve services of governmental and private agencies established to give services to the blind through consumer input, technical assistance, and monitoring. It is estimated that educational activities in one way or another impact upon at least one million individuals in this state annually. Such services are available to and benefit all of the blind of this state. Additionally, since improvements for blind persons in this state affect all blind persons in the country, these activities potentially benefit in excess of half a million blind people.

  Expenses $10,835

• Program B: Specialized Programs and Services - Provided scholarships to blind students. Provided direct assistance to individual blind persons to meet specific needs. Sponsored seminars and other activities to assist parents of blind children. Sponsored seminars and other activities to create better employment opportunities for blind persons. Helped to make available specialized aids, devices, tools, and materials for the blind-Braille writing equipment, measuring devices, white canes, clocks, watches, talking calculators, etc. Operated NEWSLINE for the Blind(R), a free digital talking newspaper service available by telephone for the blind. Provided Braille materials to the blind. Made grants to provide services of the kind described herein and to improve educational, vocational, and cultural opportunities for the blind. The activities described herein potentially benefit all blind persons in this state, and improvements in opportunities here expand opportunities for the half million blind persons in the country as well as creating more opportunities for the blind adults of tomorrow.

  Expenses $68,185 · Grants $14,881

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.

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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $46,560

  Expenses

  $81,644

  Contributions

  $39,971

  Grants paid

  $14,881

• 2023

  Revenue

  $51,293

  Expenses

  $129,641

  Contributions

  $41,308

  Grants paid

  $77,978

• 2022

  Revenue

  $41,895

  Expenses

  $59,896

  Contributions

  $33,330

  Grants paid

  $20,539

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

  $38,586

  Expenses

  $38,938

  Assets (EOY)

  $604,544

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $45,489

  Expenses

  $103,037

  Assets (EOY)

  $556,017

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $484,529

  Expenses

  $278,519

  Assets (EOY)

  $529,511

• 2012 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $85,208

  Expenses

  $56,926

  Assets (EOY)

  $284,230

• 2011 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $51,906

  Expenses

  $56,564

  Assets (EOY)

  $231,342

• 2010 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $57,521

  Expenses

  $50,020

  Assets (EOY)

  $238,073

• 2009 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $48,833

  Expenses

  $55,544

  Assets (EOY)

  $214,612

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

• BLIND INC

  $12,000

  2024 · Grant to support training programs for blind adults, teenagers, and children.

• National Federation of the Blind

  $9,980

  2022 · To support nationwide blindness projects and programs.

• National Federation of the Blind

  $9,295

  2024 · To support nationwide blindness projects and programs.

• BLIND INC

  $6,000

  2022 · Grant to support training programs for blind adults, teenagers, and children.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $8,827

  2023 · UNRESTRICTED

• MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $7,205

  2024 · UNRESTRICTED

• MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $6,581

  2022 · UNRESTRICTED

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