AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

P860

Classification

9000

Street

1108 3RD AVE STE 200

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Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 200). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

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• AFB SPECIAL FUND INC

  EIN 13-3532760

Mission and programs · 2024

• EDUCATION AND TRAINING - FOR 25 YEARS ACCESSWORLD HAS SERVED AS A VITAL SOURCE FOR CONSUMERS AND DEVELOPERS ON VALUABLE INSIGHT AND INFORMATION ENCOMPASSING ACCESSIBLE TECHNOLOGY FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR HAVE LOW VISION. THE FREE QUARTERLY ONLINE MAGAZINE AND MONTHLY PODCAST PUBLISHES RELEVANT CONTENT AT THE INTERSECTION OF DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGY WITH THE AIM TO MAKE THE WORLD MORE ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL. THE AFB TALENT LAB CONTINUED TO PROVIDE ACCESSIBILITY CONSULTING SERVICES TO ENTITIES RANGING FROM NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS TO FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES WITH SERVICES RANGING FROM WEB AND MOBILE ACCESSIBILITY AUDITS REMEDIATION ADVISORY BEST PRACTICES AND TRAINING IN DISABILITY INCLUSION. THE AFB TALENT LAB ALSO CONTINUED TO CLOSE THE INDUSTRYWIDE ACCESSIBILITY SKILLS GAP BY TRAINING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES THROUGH A REGISTERED APPRENTICESHIP IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT WITH AN ACCESSIBILITY AND DIGITAL INCLUSION SPECIALTY. ADDITIONALLY THE AFB TALENT LAB WORKED WITH COMDPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY THROUGH A MULTI-PHASED STUDENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM IN DIGITAL INCLUSION.

  Expenses $1,430,245 · Grants $29,500 · Revenue $137,149

• KNOWLEDGE BUILDING & INFORMATION DISSEMINATION - THROUGH RESEARCH AND DATA WE UNDERSTAND COMPLEX PROBLEMS AND IDENTIFY APPROPRIATE SOLUTIONS. PRIORITIZING A CONSUMER-CENTERED APPROACH WITH SCALABLE IMPACT AFB IS PURSUING AND CATALYZING FORWARD-LOOKING KNOWLEDGE GENERATION ON KEY ISSUES FACING PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR HAVE LOW VISION BY FOSTERING COLLABORATIONS WITH INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND OTHER RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS AND BY CONDUCTING INDEPENDENT RESEARCH. PRIORITY ISSUE AREAS MAY INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO POLICY RESEARCH AND APPLIED RESEARCH IN EDUCATION; MEANINGFUL EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC MOBILITY; REHABILITATION SERVICES; AGING AND VISION LOSS; DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS; AND TECHNOLOGY. IN FY2025 AFB PUBLISHED A WHITE PAPER HIGHLIGHTING FINDINGS FROM AN EXPERT CONSENSUS STUDY ON HOW AI IS LIKELY TO IMPACT THE LIVES OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. THE WHITE PAPER INCLUDED A SET OF GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR MORE DISABILITY-INCLUSIVE AI. WE BEGAN DESIGNING A SURVEY ASSESSING HOW AMERICANS WITH AND WITHOUT DISABILITIES ARE USING AI AND HOW AI IS IMPACTING THEIR LIVES. FINALLY WE HOSTED THREE RESEARCH WEBINARS TO EDUCATE PEOPLE ABOUT OUR RESEARCH AND HOW THEY CAN APPLY IT IN ADVOCACY AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT.

  Expenses $1,457,195 · Grants $40,000 · Revenue $82,020

• RESEARCH ADVOCACY AND PUBLIC SUPPORT - AFB IS WORKING TO ENSURE THAT POLICYMAKERS BUSINESS LEADERS PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITIES AND PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCATES UNDERSTAND THE KEY TRENDS CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FACING PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR HAVE LOW VISION FOR THE PURPOSES OF CHANGING ATTITUDES AND TRANSFORMING INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE. THE AFB PUBLIC POLICY AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE PPRI COLLABORATES WITH POLICYMAKERS IN CONGRESS AND THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH AS WELL AS CORPORATE PARTNERS TO ENSURE AMERICANS WHO ARE BLIND OR HAVE LOW VISION HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS AND OPPORTUNITIES TO FULLY PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY. AFBS ADVOCACY STRATEGY IS BACKED BY RESEARCHERS AND EXPERTS WITH PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL LIVED EXPERIENCE WITH BLINDNESS. IN FY 2025 AFB FOCUSED ON ADVOCACY TO MAKE TECHNOLOGY AND TRANSPORTATION MORE ACCESSIBLE AND USABLE. WORKING CLOSELY WITH COALITION PARTNERS IN THE TRANSPORTATION SPACE PPRI RAISED CONCERNS ABOUT AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE ACCESSIBILITY AND PEDESTRIAN ACCESS AND PARTICIPATED IN EFFORTS TO PRODUCE ACCESSIBLE GUIDELINES AND DATA COLLECTION. PPRI CONTINUED TO ADVOCATE FOR TECHNOLOGY AND DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ACCESSIBILITY THROUGH LEGISLATION AND RESPONDING TO FEDERAL RULEMAKING. PPRI ALSO SHARED PRINCIPLES ON INCLUSIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WITH POLICYMAKERS AND TECH COMPANIES. AFBS RESEARCH ON WEB AND APPLICATION ACCESSIBILITY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCES DURING THE PANDEMIC CONTINUED TO INFORM AFBS ADVOCACY PRIORITIES. AFBS JOURNAL OF VISUAL IMPAIRMENT & BLINDNESS JVIB THE INTERNATIONAL PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL OF RECORD IN THE BLINDNESS FIELD WHICH HAS BEEN IN CONTINUOUS PUBLICATION SINCE 1907 DELIVERS PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH AND PEER-REVIEWED BEST PRACTICE INFORMATION AND ANALYSIS. THE JOURNAL ALSO FEATURES LETTERS TO THE EDITOR AND COMMENTARIES FROM AUTHORITATIVE EXPERTS ON CRITICAL TOPICS AS WELL AS BOOK REVIEWS OF CURRENT TITLES OF INTEREST TO THE BLINDNESS FIELD. IN 2025 VOLUME 119 THE FINAL ISSUE OF THE YEAR FEATURED PART ONE OF A TWO-PART SPECIAL ISSUE ON ADVANCEMENTS AND INNOVATIONS IN TECHNOLOGY FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS.THE PUBLISHED ISSUE INCLUDED NUMEROUS PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH ARTICLES AND PRACTICE PIECES FROM UNITED STATES AND AROUND THE WORLD AS WELL AS BOOK REVIEWS AND COMMENTARIES FROM EXPERTS IN THE FIELD INCLUDING INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE BLIND OR HAVE LOW VISION. THE ISSUE WAS GUEST EDITED BY STACY M. KELLY ED.D. TVI COMS CATIS PROFESSOR NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY.

  Expenses $1,199,929 · Revenue $70,418

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.

The first 25 listed. 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

  $9,771,132

  Expenses

  $6,001,271

  Contributions

  $7,986,903

  Grants paid

  $105,100

• 2023

  Revenue

  $9,609,252

  Expenses

  $5,717,010

  Contributions

  $8,195,254

  Grants paid

  $107,500

• 2022

  Revenue

  $8,578,565

  Expenses

  $7,725,003

  Contributions

  $8,208,065

  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

  $14,945,621

  Expenses

  $12,400,249

  Assets (EOY)

  $25,098,067

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,955,927

  Expenses

  $8,580,782

  Assets (EOY)

  $22,089,762

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,027,415

  Expenses

  $12,450,010

  Assets (EOY)

  $19,961,243

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,904,728

  Expenses

  $11,172,976

  Assets (EOY)

  $22,807,437

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,498,178

  Expenses

  $9,745,144

  Assets (EOY)

  $25,916,167

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,804,234

  Expenses

  $12,764,530

  Assets (EOY)

  $29,861,544

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,664,171

  Expenses

  $11,503,662

  Assets (EOY)

  $33,064,329

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $12,034,402

  Expenses

  $10,842,933

  Assets (EOY)

  $36,054,285

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,859,816

  Expenses

  $10,952,704

  Assets (EOY)

  $38,497,903

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $12,211,096

  Assets (EOY)

  $38,497,340

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

• ENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION

  $80,000

  2023 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• ENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION

  $40,000

  2024 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• AMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND

  $29,500

  2024 · COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS

• AMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND

  $27,500

  2023 · COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• AFB SPECIAL FUND INC

  $300,000

  2023 · HELP FOR PEOPLE WITH VISION LOSS

• AFB SPECIAL FUND INC

  $250,000

  2022 · HELP FOR PEOPLE WITH VISION LOSS

• CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA

  $150,000

  2023 · CHARITABLE DONATION

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $100,500

  2022 · HUMAN SERVICES

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $65,643

  2023 · HUMAN SERVICES

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $34,305

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $33,000

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $31,000

  2023 · EDUCATION

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $30,105

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

  $29,033

  2023 · General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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