INDUSTRIES OF THE BLIND INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

J30Z

Classification

1200

Street

920 W GATE CITY BLVD

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

• TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR EMPLOYMENT AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED TO ACHIEVE GREATERINDEPENDENCE. INDUSTRIES OF THE BLIND, INC. OPERATES A MANUFACTURING, ASSEMBLY, AND DISTRIBUTION SERVICE BUSINESS THAT EMPLOYS BLIND ANDSIGHTED PEOPLE IN ORDER TO PROVIDE THEM THESE OPPORTUNITIES FOR EMPLOYMENT AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT. THE MANUFACTURING CONSISTS OF TEXTILE CUTTING AND SEWING FOR PRODUCTION OF MILITARY UNIFORMS, CLOTHING, AND COMMERCIAL GOODS. THE BLIND AND SIGHTED EMPLOYEES OF INDUSTRIES OF THE BLIND, INC. ALSO MANUFACTURE AND ASSEMBLE A VARIETY OF OFFICE SUPPLY AND SANITATION PRODUCTS INCLUDING WRITING INSTRUMENTS, CLIPBOARDS, MOPS, BROOMS, AND A VARIETY OF OTHER ITEMS. THE PROCESS TEACHES SEWING SKILLS, WORKING WITH FABRICS, AND MECHANIZED PROCEDURES TO THE BLIND AND SIGHTED EMPLOYEES. AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2025, INDUSTRIES OF THE BLIND EMPLOYS 136 BLIND AND 111 SIGHTED PEOPLE. REVENUE SHOWN ABOVE IS NET OF COST OF GOODS SOLD EXPENSES ON THE FORM 990, PART VIII, LINE 10B.

  Expenses $3,871,219

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. 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

  $3,280,716

  Expenses

  $4,646,705

  Contributions

  $785,549

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $4,135,035

  Expenses

  $3,937,418

  Contributions

  $172,425

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $5,279,964

  Expenses

  $3,768,602

  Contributions

  $3,225,972

  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

  $1,577,199

  Expenses

  $2,937,425

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,976,206

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,286,566

  Expenses

  $3,238,752

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,540,370

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,732,876

  Expenses

  $3,372,253

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,175,822

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,556,230

  Expenses

  $3,036,900

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,372,438

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,921,856

  Expenses

  $3,582,850

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,783,659

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $972,778

  Expenses

  $2,944,553

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,981,363

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,819,005

  Expenses

  $2,645,045

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,924,074

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,999,752

  Expenses

  $2,434,153

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,244,389

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,297,333

  Expenses

  $2,462,749

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,110,312

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $2,423,810

  Assets (EOY)

  $17,708,323

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

• NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND

  $42,600

  2024 · PRODUCTIVITY, TRAINING, AND COMPLIANCE GRANT

• NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND

  $40,000

  2022 · PRODUCTIVITY, TRAINING AND COMPLIANCE

• NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND

  $30,000

  2023 · PRODUCTIVITY, TRAINING AND COMPLIANCE

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