AMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND OHIO CHAPTER INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

G41Z

Classification

2000

Street

3805 N HIGH ST STE 305

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 · 2025

• CONFERENCE AND CONVENTION: ACB-OHIO HOLDS AN ANNUAL CONVENTION FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR HAVE LOW VISION. IN RECENT YEARS WE HAVE PARTNERED WITH A NEIGHBORING AFFILIATE, ACB-INDIANA. THE THREE-DAY EVENT IN STRONGSVILLE, OHIO ON NOVEMBER 14-16, 2025, WITH SEVENTY-NINE ATTENDING IN PERSON AND SEVENTEEN ATTENDING VIRTUALLY. THE CONFERENCE FEATURED SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS, SOCIAL EVENTS, SPEAKERS, AND A VENDOR HALL. OUR PROGRAM PLANNING COMMITTEE, WHICH IS COMPRISED OF BOARD MEMBERS, METICULOUSLY PLANS ALL ASPECTS OF THE CONVENTION AND SEEKS SPONSORS TO DEFRAY COSTS. THE THEME WAS "CELEBRATE RESISTANCE- AND SESSIONS INCLUDED: BUDGETING TO RETIREMENT AND BEYOND; A BRAILLE TRAIL EXPERIENCE; INDEPENDENT LIVING PANEL; SAFETY POSITIVE (SAFETY POSITIVE FOUNDATION); FINANCIAL LITERACY FOR THE BUSY WORKING ADULT; ACCESSIBLE ONLINE SHOPPING MADE EASY; CPR, AED, AND FIRST-AID; SELF- DEFENSE; AND DRESS FOR SUCCESS A LARGE GROUP WENT TO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME, WHERE THEY EXPERIENCED AUDIO-DESCRIBED TOURS TAILORED TO EACH PAIR OF EXPLORERS THANKS TO ELEVEN VOLUNTEERS FROM THE CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER. AT THE BANQUET, WE PRESENTED FOUR AWARDS TO THOSE WHO WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND TO ADVANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR OHIOANS WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED. THE EVENING ENDED WITH A LIVELY FUNDRAISING AUCTION. WE DOCUMENT ANOTHER ANNUAL EVENT IN FORM 990, PART III, LINE 4D.

  Expenses $28,057 · Revenue $13,188

• MATCHING GRANTS: THROUGH OUR MATCHING GRANTS PROGRAM, ACB-OHIO PROVIDES HALF THE COST (UP TO 1,000) TO HELP OHIOANS WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED AFFORD ADAPTIVE/ACCESSIBLE TECHNOLOGY, WHICH CAN BE QUITE COSTLY. IN 2025, ACB-OHIO AWARDED 17 GRANTS TOTALING OVER 6,000. SEVENTEEN INDIVIDUALS RECEIVED FUNDS TO HELP PAY FOR TECHNOLOGY THAT HELPS THEM LIVE AND WORK INDEPENDENTLY, DEVICES THAT THEY MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO AFFORD OTHERWISE. GRANTS HELPED RECIPIENTS BUY HIGH TECH, LOW TECH, AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. BRUCE TEGOWSKI RECEIVED 278 TO HELP BUY AN ACCESSIBLE PHONE TO ALLOW HIM TO HEAR WEATHER REPORTS AS WELL AS NAVIGATE IN HIS NEIGHBORHOOD. CALVIN LEWIS RECEIVED 415 DOLLARS TO HELP HIM PURCHASE A VIDEO MAGNIFIER THAT WILL HELP HIM RECLAIM INDEPENDENCE AS HE READS STORE FLYERS AND MAIL WITHOUT SUPPORT FROM HIS WIFE. OTHER GRANTS HELPED PAY FOR HIGH POWERED MAGNIFYING GLASSES, AND SMART GLASSES. ONE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE A MEMBER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR A GRANT.

  Expenses $8,024 · Grants $6,777

• ADVOCACY: EACH SPRING, A SMALL GROUP OF ACBO MEMBERS VISIT WASHINGTON, DC FOR A TWO DAY-LONG LEADERSHIP SEMINAR, FOLLOWED BY A DAY-LONG LEGISLATIVE SEMINAR, DURING WHICH THEY LEARN ABOUT PROPOSED LEGISLATION THAT WOULD IMPACT THE LIVES OF PEOPLE WITH BLINDNESS AND LOW VISION. ON THE LAST DAY, THE GROUP GOES TO CAPITOL HILL TO ADVOCATE FOR THESE MEASURES, TALKING WITH REPRESENTATIVES AND THEIR STAFF ABOUT THESE ISSUES. SEVEN OF OUR MEMBERS WENT TO WASHINGTON, DC IN 2025, AND ADVOCATED FOR EQUAL RIGHTS AND EQUAL ACCESS FOR ALL, IMPLORING REPRESENTATIVES TO SUPPORT BILLS FOR THE MEDICAL DEVICE NONVISUAL ACCESSIBILITY ACT WHICH WOULD MAKE CLASS 2 AND CLASS 3 MEDICAL DEVICES FOR HOME OR OUTPATIENT EQUIPMENT SUCH AS GLUCOSE MONITORS, BLOOD PRESSURE HAVE ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES LIKE TEXT TO SPEECH OUTPUT, TACTILE MARKINGS, OR AUDIBLE TONES BUILT IN;\ AND IMPLORING REPRESENTATIVES TO SUPPORT BILLS FOR WEB AND SOFTWARE ACCESSIBILITY AND EXPANDED AUDIO DESCRIPTION ON TV AND STREAMING PLATFORMS TO MAKE POSSIBLE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED TO ACCESS FULLER AND RICHER EXPERIENCE WHEN WATCHING VIDEO PROGRAMS.

  Expenses $1,620

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $63,682 · Grants $10,000

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 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

• 2025

  Revenue

  $70,603

  Expenses

  $124,001

  Contributions

  $28,234

  Grants paid

  $16,777

• 2024

  Revenue

  $109,566

  Expenses

  $93,437

  Contributions

  $80,061

  Grants paid

  $6,223

• 2023

  Revenue

  $84,610

  Expenses

  $117,194

  Contributions

  $59,343

  Grants paid

  $8,104

• 2023

  Revenue

  $84,610

  Expenses

  $117,194

  Contributions

  $59,343

  Grants paid

  $8,104

• 2023

  Revenue

  $84,610

  Expenses

  $117,194

  Contributions

  $59,343

  Grants paid

  $8,104

• 2022

  Revenue

  $85,556

  Expenses

  $67,131

  Contributions

  $64,169

  Grants paid

  $11,500

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

  $86,156

  Expenses

  $110,669

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,270,326

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $70,281

  Expenses

  $77,288

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,110,462

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $63,683

  Expenses

  $76,863

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,044,245

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $76,331

  Expenses

  $76,013

  Assets (EOY)

  $892,309

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $75,465

  Expenses

  $97,054

  Assets (EOY)

  $986,818

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $55,008

  Expenses

  $100,730

  Assets (EOY)

  $909,570

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $65,351

  Expenses

  $101,817

  Assets (EOY)

  $903,118

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $77,443

  Expenses

  $98,717

  Assets (EOY)

  $995,544

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $58,595

  Expenses

  $93,885

  Assets (EOY)

  $983,836

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $104,429

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,645

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

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS INC

  $61,500

  2024 · SOCIAL SERVICES

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS INC

  $27,500

  2023 · SOCIAL SERVICES

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS INC

  $27,500

  2023 · SOCIAL SERVICES

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS INC

  $21,000

  2022 · SOCIAL SERVICES

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