AMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND ENTERPRISES AND SERVICES INC
EIN 41-1332199 BROOKLYN CENTER, MN
- Revenue 2025
- $1,579,143
- Expenses 2025
- $1,067,750
Program services were 95.8% 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
- 6200 SHINGLE CREEK PARKWAY SUITE 15
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
Mission
IMPROVE THE WELL-BEING OF ALL BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE BY SUPPORTING AMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND (ACB)
Activities or mission (Part I)
THE ORGANIZATION STRIVES TO IMPROVE THE LIFE FOR ALL BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE.
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THE ORGANIZATION OPERATES RETAIL THRIFT STORES THAT SELL MERCHANDISE PRINCIPALLY DONATED BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC. PROFITS GENERATED BY THE THRIFT STORES, IF ANY, CONTRIBUTE TO THE GENERAL UNRESTRICTED FUNDS OF ACB.
Expenses $1,022,752 · Revenue -$5,580
As filed on the 2025 return.
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.
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Michael GarrettMICHAEL GARRETT
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3 + 5 related
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Jeff ThomJEFF THOM
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 5 related
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David TrottDAVID TROTT
SECRETARY/TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 10 related
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George HollidayGEORGE HOLLIDAY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Terry PachecoTERRY PACHECO
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 4 related
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Kim CharlsonKIM CHARLSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 4 related
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Nancy Marks BeckerNANCY MARKS BECKER
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
- Total calculated
- $148,027
- From this org
- $13,916
- From related orgs
- $101,184
- Other
- $32,927
- Hours/week
- 5 + 35 related
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Timothy Scott ThornhillTIMOTHY SCOTT THORNHILL
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $162,242
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $156,144
- Other
- $6,098
- Hours/week
- 1 + 39 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $156,144 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0 + $5,249 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $849 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $162,242 related
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
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2025
- Revenue
- $1,579,143
- Expenses
- $1,067,750
- Contributions
- $1,584,723
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2024
- Revenue
- $1,341,938
- Expenses
- $958,448
- Contributions
- $9,490
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $1,139,957
- Expenses
- $859,284
- Contributions
- $5,102
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $1,221,541
- Expenses
- $806,020
- Contributions
- $204,972
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,106,698
- Expenses
- $738,221
- Assets (EOY)
- $221,780
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $800,894
- Expenses
- $740,509
- Assets (EOY)
- $212,620
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,166,923
- Expenses
- $828,219
- Assets (EOY)
- $139,651
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,046,105
- Expenses
- $824,501
- Assets (EOY)
- $102,716
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,392,214
- Expenses
- $1,188,334
- Assets (EOY)
- $85,833
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,604,073
- Expenses
- $1,528,899
- Assets (EOY)
- $110,978
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,599,034
- Expenses
- $1,583,781
- Assets (EOY)
- $142,665
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,941,621
- Expenses
- $2,111,889
- Assets (EOY)
- $190,883
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,351,341
- Expenses
- $2,470,091
- Assets (EOY)
- $259,188
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $2,561,349
- Assets (EOY)
- $240,844
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
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2022 Support
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2023 MEETING
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.
Declared on its 2025 return
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AMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INC
501(C)(3) · SUPPORT OF BLIND PEOPLE · VA
Declared as related by
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AMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INC
On its 2025 return as a controlled entity
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 SOUNK.
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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.