Perkins School For The Blind
Watertown, MA
- UEI
- KKMAW1T7APW3
- CAGE
- 07208
- Primary NAICS
- 611710 Educational Support Services
- SAM.gov registration
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Company facts
- Self-certified in SAM.gov
- Entity structure
- Corporate Entity (Tax Exempt)
- SAM.gov registration date
- Physical address
- 175 N Beacon St, Watertown, MA 02472, USA
- Website
- perkins.org
- Founded
- 1829
- Employees
- 251-1K
- Estimated annual revenue
- $100M-$250M
- Industry
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- Consumer Discretionary
- Consumer Services
- Diversified Consumer Services
- Education Services
- SIC code
- 87 Engineering & Management Services
- Profiles
Registration and certifications come from SAM.gov and the SBA; company details from public web sources. Updated .
Contract awards
Latest 5 listed here. See the rest on GovTribe.
Grant awards
Latest 5 listed here. See the rest on GovTribe.
Grant subawards
| Prime recipient | Prime award | Amount | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helen Keller Services | H326T230030 | $29,694 | |
| Helen Keller Services | H326T230030 | $488,100 | |
| Massachusetts Service Alliance, Inc. | 25FXFMA001 | $302,400 | |
| Helen Keller Services | H326T230030 | $30,042 | |
| Massachusetts Service Alliance, Inc. | 22AFFMA001 | $324,000 |
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About the company
Perkins School for the Blind, a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Watertown, Massachusetts, receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient to deliver technical assistance and educational services for children with deafblindness and visual impairments, with secondary federal exposure through sub-awards on AmeriCorps programs and informational-resource development. The organization operates predominantly as a grant recipient (87% of recent awards) rather than as a contract prime, with no seat on federal contract vehicles and no federal procurement contract awards in the source data.
Perkins' federal grant footprint centers on the Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), which accounts for 11 of 19 named recent awards and funds the New England Consortium on Deafblindness (NEC) State Technical Assistance Projects to Improve Services and Results for Deafblind Children. The most recent prime grant, awarded October 1, 2026, carries $493,100 in funding under CFDA 84.326 (Special Education Technical Assistance and Dissemination to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities) and runs through September 30, 2027; this award supports technical assistance activities designed to improve services and outcomes for deafblind children and the school-based personnel serving them across Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont, with performance in Watertown. A prior NEC award from October 1, 2023, funded the same program through September 30, 2025. Beyond OSERS, the vendor receives smaller awards from the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration (four to five awards across multiple Veterans Integrated Service Networks) and the Corporation for National and Community Service. In its sub-award role, Perkins serves as a sub-recipient under Helen Keller Services (receiving resource-development and technical-assistance sub-awards in October and November 2025 and October 2024) and under Massachusetts Service Alliance, Inc., on AmeriCorps programs (September 2025 and July 2024 sub-awards), where Perkins deploys AmeriCorps members to provide direct support to students with multiple disabilities, visual impairments, and deafblindness in expanded core curriculum activities, targeting at least 63 to 67 students per program year with private funding matches of $324,000 to $401,290.
Activity is intermittent — one award in 2018, a gap through 2022, then one award in 2023 and two in 2024, three in 2025, and one in 2026. Combined obligated dollars ($10.8 million) substantially exceed the combined potential value ($1.1 million), reflecting full drawdown on completed or mature awards; only one award faces ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months.
Quick answers
Is Perkins School For The Blind registered in SAM.gov?
Yes. Perkins School For The Blind's SAM.gov registration is active through June 18, 2027.
What is Perkins School For The Blind's most recent federal award?
Perkins School For The Blind's most recent federal grant award is New england consortium on deafblindness (NEC) - state technical assistance projects to improve services and results for… (H326T260001), from Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, on October 1, 2026.
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