Federal contractor · UTICA, NY

CENTRAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND, INC.

CENTRAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND, INC. received $3.5M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 19 awards (+12% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $139.5M. Its largest customer was Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ($2.6M).

Obligations · FY2026
$3.5M
New awards
19
Sole-source
97%
Single offer
1.8%
UEI
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Other than small businessNonprofit

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 11MFY2017
  2. 7.1MFY2018
  3. 6.4MFY2019
  4. 5.9MFY2020
  5. 87.7MFY2021
  6. 3.1MFY2022
  7. 5MFY2023
  8. 6.8MFY2024
  9. 3.1MFY2025
  10. 3.5MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 2 awards
  2. 2 awards
  3. 3 awards
  4. 2 awards
  5. 6 awards
  6. 1 awards
  7. 1 awards
  8. 1 awards
  9. 1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$3.2M91%
  2. Equipment maintenance$188.4K5.4%
  3. Other equipment & supplies$59K1.7%
  4. Health & medical$56.6K1.6%
  5. IT & telecom$8,1150.2%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition99%
    US 39% · $3.4M
  • Sole-source awards97%
    US 30% · $3.4M
  • Single-offer competitions1.8%
    US 8.7% · $64.2K
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Department of Transportation · 1 awards
  2. Department of Veterans Affairs · 1 awards
  3. Department of Defense · 4 awards

Largest awards

  1. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration· District of Columbia, DC· IT & telecom· Sep 20, 2021 – Oct 31, 2025· 693JJ421C000004
  2. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration· Oneida County, NY· Professional services· Sep 21, 2026 – Sep 21, 2026· 693JJ426C000009
  3. Department of Veterans Affairs· Fayette County, KY· Equipment maintenance· Oct 1, 2023 – Oct 30, 2025· 36C24924C0004
  4. Department of Veterans Affairs· Fayette County, KY· Professional services· Jan 1, 2026 – May 26, 2026· 36C24926C0019
  5. Department of the Army· Morris County, NJ· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 26, 2025 – Dec 9, 2025· W912DS25P0025
  6. Federal Bureau of Investigation· Oneida County, NY· Other equipment & supplies· Nov 12, 2024 – Dec 10, 2025· 15F06725F0000036
  7. Federal Emergency Management Agency· District of Columbia, DC· Health & medical· Mar 2, 2020 – Jul 16, 2026· 70FB7020F00000037
  8. Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Oneida County, NY· Health & medical· Apr 6, 2026 – Apr 6, 2026· 15B11726P00000053

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-contracts: $190K (1 subaward)
  • Sub-grants: $79.8K (1 subaward)

2 primes

  1. ROCKFORD, IL · 1 subaward
  2. BALTIMORE, MD · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $472 received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $129.9K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $269.8K received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

4 companies · $400.2K reported

  1. ROCKFORD, IL · 1 subaward
  2. HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY$129.9K
    ALBANY, NY · 1 subaward
  3. LAUREL, MD · 1 subaward

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 10 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. SYRACUSE, NY · 14% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Business support services
  2. CROSS LINK MEDIA LLC$2M−100% in FY2026
    CARTERVILLE, IL · 14% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Business support services
  3. POSTAL STRATEGY CONSULTING LLC$2.6M−8.5% in FY2026
    SENECA, SC · 14% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Business support services

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Matched organizations

  • Central Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (CABVI)AI match · 96%
Lobbying · 2026
$160K
2 reports
Lobbying · 2025–2026
$320K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2025$160K
    2 reports
  2. 2026$160K
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Manufacturing4 reports

Who was contacted

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

  1. Michael Best Strategies LLC$320K
    4 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.