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VALLEY CENTER FOR THE BLIND

EIN 94-2255626 FRESNO, CA

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Revenue 2024
$2,913,942
Expenses 2024
$2,777,227

Program services were 82.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
G41Z
Classification
1000
Street
3417 W SHAW 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 · 2024

Mission

To support, train, and employ people who are blind or have low vision and increase their opportunities to lead an independent and fulfilling life.

  • Valley Center for the Blind is a nationally recognized organization that uplifts individuals who are blind or low vision. We have helped to improve the independence skills of over 791 individuals over 15,652 hours within the last year. We have taught people skills to make them job ready and have one of the top placement rates for community-based employment for people who are blind and low vision in the state of California. We also developed a direct partnership with Fresno County to create sustainable pathways to accessible employment.

    Expenses $2,286,148

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.

  • Shellena Heber

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $123,743
    From this org
    $120,612
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,131
    Hours/week
    40

  • Dr Lauren Fernandez

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $4,900
    From this org
    $4,900
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Emily Yang

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bernadette Madrid

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ryan Wullschleger

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rhonda Rice

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $2,913,942
    Expenses
    $2,777,227
    Contributions
    $1,331,953
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,777,364
    Expenses
    $2,521,135
    Contributions
    $1,091,715
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,920,464
    Expenses
    $1,887,982
    Contributions
    $458,697
    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
    $1,558,998
    Expenses
    $1,465,963
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,659,782

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,571,754
    Expenses
    $1,248,562
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,505,416

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,124,556
    Expenses
    $949,538
    Assets (EOY)
    $819,162

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $823,951
    Expenses
    $670,560
    Assets (EOY)
    $611,758

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $603,576
    Expenses
    $680,539
    Assets (EOY)
    $463,756

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $717,631
    Expenses
    $556,365
    Assets (EOY)
    $541,130

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $708,764
    Expenses
    $525,638
    Assets (EOY)
    $290,335

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $355,747
    Expenses
    $376,024
    Assets (EOY)
    $85,502

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $324,707
    Expenses
    $290,939
    Assets (EOY)
    $103,946

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

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.