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NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF TEXAS INC

EIN 74-2056167 ALVIN, TX

Revenue 2024
$761,514
Expenses 2024
$733,049

Program services were 89.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
G41Z
Classification
1200
Street
1600 E HIGHWAY 6 STE 215

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

self-help for the blind

Activities or mission (Part I)

The NFB of Texas is an organization made up of blind and sighted people working to improve the lives of blind Texans by providing assistance and services to parents, blind workers, and consumers of rehabilitation services.

  • Program A: Education, Civil Rights, and Self-Organization: Operated community outreach offices to provide information to the public about blindness and how to help blind people and to locate blind persons in need of assistance. Provided assistance to blind people to attend seminars and workshops designed to assist the blind in learning methods and techniques of organizing local groups of blind people for self-help and in learning about library services, rehabilitation services, new technology, aids, devices, and other resources and materials. Developed, produced, or distributed in print, Braille, and/or recorded media materials relating to blindness. Provided information to individuals, employers, governmental agencies, and the general public through written, telephone, personal, and media contacts. Developed and strengthened state and local organizations of the blind (self-help and support groups) and provided legal assistance, encouragement, information, or advocacy assistance to blind persons. Worked to improve services of governmental and private agencies established to give services to the blind through consumer input, technical assistance, and monitoring. It is estimated that educational activities in one way or another impact upon at least one million individuals in this state annually. Such services are available to and benefit all of the blind of this state. Additionally, since improvements for blind persons in this state affect all blind persons in the country, these activities potentially benefit in excess of half a million blind people.

    Expenses $139,232 · Grants $5,513

  • Program B: Specialized Programs and Services: Provided scholarships to blind students. Provided direct assistance to individual blind persons to meet specific needs. Sponsored seminars and other activities to assist parents of blind children. Sponsored seminars and other activities to create better employment opportunities for blind persons. Helped to make available specialized aids, devices, tools, and materials for the blind-Braille writing equipment, measuring devices, white canes, clocks, watches, talking calculators, etc. Operated NEWSLINE for the Blind(R), a free digital talking newspaper service available by telephone for the blind. Provided Braille materials to the blind. Made grants to provide services of the kind described herein and to improve educational, vocational, and cultural opportunities for the blind. The activities described herein potentially benefit all blind persons in this state, and improvements in opportunities here expand opportunities for the half million blind persons in the country as well as creating more opportunities for the blind adults of tomorrow.

    Expenses $513,601 · Grants $47,465

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.

  • Norma Crosby

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Raul Gallegos

    1st Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Wendy Walker

    2nd Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Louis Maher

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lara Sowell

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Pamela Chesser

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Daniel Martinez

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Al Rodriguez

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Thomas Rodriguez

    Board Member

    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
    $761,514
    Expenses
    $733,049
    Contributions
    $715,785
    Grants paid
    $52,977
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $860,191
    Expenses
    $807,548
    Contributions
    $868,681
    Grants paid
    $28,742
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $569,279
    Expenses
    $702,573
    Contributions
    $547,007
    Grants paid
    $77,904

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
    $639,857
    Expenses
    $701,249
    Assets (EOY)
    $947,413

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $666,593
    Expenses
    $599,550
    Assets (EOY)
    $945,681

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

Where these grants went next →

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.