BLIND CHILDRENS CENTER INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B280

Classification

1200

Street

4120 MARATHON ST

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

• Prenatal to Three Program Options: (1) Infant Program (0-35 months and pregnant mothers) Utilizing the Parent as Teacher Curriculum, parents attend this program with their children two days each week in a small group setting. Parents are guided by Parent Educators and can learn from and support one another. The program focuses on fostering parent/child relationships, addressing early developmental needs of children with visual impairments and other disabilities, and bringing parents out of isolation. (2) Center-Based Toddler Program (18 36 months) Children with visual impairments and other disabilities learn side by side with children who are typically developing in fully inclusive early education classrooms. All children benefit from wrap-around services including health, mental health, nutrition, disabilities, family support and parent education. Programs are offered throughout the year except in July.

  Expenses $1,778,351

• Inclusive Learning Preschool: Most students in our Toddler Program move on to our Preschool which provides comprehensive early education in an inclusive environment. Our small class sizes encourage individualized education and, for students who are blind or visually impaired, training in optimizing the use of their remaining vision, sensory development, orientation & mobility (including cane travel), speech/language development, early math, and literacy preparedness for ALL children from 3 5 years-old. Both our Toddler and Preschool Programs utilize the Creative Curriculum. This program is offered year-round except in July.

  Expenses $1,502,106

• Food services, medical, vision and therapeutic services to children.

  Expenses $142,380

• Annual research grant to support efforts seeking cures and prevention for juvenile blindness.

  Expenses $25,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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. 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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $4,636,424

  Expenses

  $4,487,254

  Contributions

  $4,243,363

  Grants paid

  $25,000

• 2023

  Revenue

  $9,084,487

  Expenses

  $4,077,082

  Contributions

  $8,737,147

  Grants paid

  $12,500

• 2022

  Revenue

  $4,853,464

  Expenses

  $3,525,284

  Contributions

  $4,068,713

  Grants paid

  $25,000

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

  $3,057,694

  Expenses

  $2,819,525

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,874,172

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,707,791

  Expenses

  $2,700,725

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,726,601

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,710,661

  Expenses

  $2,654,292

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,611,131

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,264,472

  Expenses

  $3,270,598

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,116,971

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,178,322

  Expenses

  $3,217,630

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,843,866

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,178,322

  Expenses

  $3,217,630

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,843,866

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,181,640

  Expenses

  $3,528,570

  Assets (EOY)

  $12,213,226

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,807,109

  Expenses

  $3,405,615

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,746,897

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,920,905

  Expenses

  $3,116,840

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,879,856

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

• University of Iowa

  $25,000

  2024

• The University of Chicago

  $25,000

  2022 · Research

• National Eye Institute

  $12,500

  2023 · Research

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION

  $146,435

  2024 · AID FOR BLIND

• ROSE HILLS FOUNDATION

  $125,000

  2023 · CAPITAL SUPPORT

• ROSE HILLS FOUNDATION

  $125,000

  2024 · CAPITAL SUPPORT

• GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

  $78,000

  2022 · COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES

• GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

  $66,326

  2024 · COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES

• QUEENSCARE

  $50,000

  2023 · To fund outpatient healthcare services.

• ROSE HILLS FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  2022 · OPERATING SUPPORT

• DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION

  $35,760

  2023 · AID FOR BLIND

• DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION

  $31,878

  2022 · AID FOR BLIND

• DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION

  $30,000

  2023 · AID FOR BLIND

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