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LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND FOUNDATION

EIN 45-4529860 ROCHESTER HLS, MI

Revenue 2024
$12,227,576
Expenses 2024
$4,039,982

Program services were 92.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P112
Classification
1000
Street
1039 S ROCHESTER RD

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).

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.

  • MELISSA L WEISSE

    SECRETARY/TREASURER (AS OF 02/2024)

    Total calculated
    $312,102
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $290,000
    Other
    $22,102
    Hours/week
    2 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $273,300 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $16,700 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $14,500 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $7,602 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $312,102 related

  • STEVE GUARINI

    PRESIDENT & CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • SCOTT BERRY

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRIAN HOCK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • RAJ KOTHARI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID KNILL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • REBECCA HERR

    DIRECTOR (THRU 02/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $12,227,576
    Expenses
    $4,039,982
    Contributions
    $24,167
    Grants paid
    $3,717,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,620,835
    Expenses
    $12,660,580
    Contributions
    $1,401,252
    Grants paid
    $12,312,982
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,258,362
    Expenses
    $4,487,926
    Contributions
    $1,884
    Grants paid
    $4,150,000

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,571,378
    Expenses
    $3,797,340
    Assets (EOY)
    $71,517,820

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,949,499
    Expenses
    $3,354,999
    Assets (EOY)
    $82,742,286

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,831,504
    Expenses
    $3,266,929
    Assets (EOY)
    $62,156,604

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,560,498
    Expenses
    $3,841,885
    Assets (EOY)
    $64,784,954

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,658,685
    Expenses
    $3,094,421
    Assets (EOY)
    $63,353,576

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

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Grants received

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 2024 return

Declared as related by

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 10 September 2026, under deductibility SONFI.

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 IRS Business Master File ingested 5 October 2026, which is when the registration facts above were last refreshed for every organization. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.