Blind Endeavors Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472832303
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Montrose, CO, USA
Phone
9707875438
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Support N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$103,387
Expenses
$47,241
Assets
$73,942

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • STEVEN C BASKIS (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • STEVEN C BASKIS (PRESIDENT)
  • VICTOR L HENDERSON (BOARD MEMBER)
  • ANOTHONY NASHARR (BOARD MEMBER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Empowering the blind and visually impaired through inspiring storytelling and immersive media to build awareness, deepen knowledge, and encourage meaningful action.

What it reported doing in 2025

Adaptive expedition programming, through its affiliation with sightless summits, an initiative involving lonnie bedwell, facilitated fundraising efforts to support a series of international adaptive mountaineering expeditions completed in 2025, including ascents of mount elbrus, mount kosciuszko, and mount vinson, as well as a planned north pole expedition anticipated in 2027.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 65
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 68
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 45.1%; rating input score 45
  • Program expense ratio: 98.7%; rating input score 99

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 54.3%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.57; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 20% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 45.1% of revenue deployed · 98.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $47K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2015 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.