Keystone Blind Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 250969420
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Hermitage, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7243475501
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,441,801
- Expenses
- $16,292,824
- Assets
- $10,220,661
- Liabilities
- $2,195,710
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LAURIE STAPH (CEO)
- BRYAN SCHEIDEMANTLE (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- LAURIE STAPH (CEO): $216,902 total reported compensation
- NANCY BLACK (CFO): $142,048 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To empower, educate, and employ individuals with vision loss or other disabilities, to promote independence for children and adults who are blind or visually impaired, to promote eye health and eye safety, and to promote employment for all persons with disabilities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Specialized services include support services such as transportation with escort to doctor appointments, mail reading, shopping assistance, life skills classes, orientation & mobility instruction, computer access technology, vocational rehabilitation and support groups. Over 7236 hour units of service were provided in 2025 to 283 clients, some of which obtained multiple services. Prevention of blindness services include preschool, school age, and adult vision screenings for 4395 individuals resulting in 681 referrals to eye care professionals for vision issues, eye health and eye safety educational programs were provided to 5006 individuals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 95% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.4%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 83.1%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.6%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.3%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.4% of revenue deployed · 83.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $13.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $217K · 16 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.3M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.