Council of Schools for the Blind
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 710725317
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Kansas City, KS, USA
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $81,389
- Expenses
- $82,207
- Assets
- $38,193
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rob Hair (President)
- Joy Harris (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Rob Hair (President)
- Joy Harris (Executive Director)
- Jon Harding (Treasurer)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Council of Schools for the Blind is a vital membership organization that serves schools catering to visually impaired students nationwide. It plays a crucial role in providing essential resources such as information staff development training and networking opportunities to support school personnel in their mission to deliver quality education and support services. Through this platform professionals in the field can access valuable advice guidance and collaborative opportunities to enhance their effectiveness in serving visually impaired students.
What it reported doing in 2024
The annual membership banquet serves as a vital platform for visually impaired students and professionals nationwide to connect share knowledge and build valuable relationships. This event plays a pivotal role in fostering a supportive community facilitating mentorship opportunities and promoting professional development among individuals with visual impairments. By bringing together a diverse range of participants the banquet enhances inclusivity collaboration and empowerment within the visually impaired community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 67% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 70% for direct work, and 30% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.2%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 89.3%; rating input score 89
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 50.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.2% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.2% of revenue deployed · 89.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $73K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.