· Public charity
Himalayan Cataract Project Inc
We enable countries to cure avoidable blindness by developing high quality, cost-effective eye care in underserved areas of the world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $1,084,077 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,375,110 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,291,033 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $210k
- $250k+2 grants · $739k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SERGE GLOBAL INC | $392,173 |
| HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL | $346,560 |
| THE CARTER CENTER INC | $210,000 |
| SEVA FOUNDATION | $46,188 |
| SIGHT FOR SOULS | $28,985 |
| LIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE INC | $23,771 |
| SAFE SURGERY INITIATIVE INC | $20,000 |
| SEE INTERNATIONAL | $16,400 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 71% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Grants abroad, by region — $10M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions, $10M to organizations and $5k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: GRANTS PROVIDED TO SUPPORT BLINDNESS ALLEVIATION PROGRAM; EYE SURGERY; SURGICAL EQUIPMNET AND EDUCATION. IN KIND GRANTS OF EQUIPMENT AND TRAINING · RESEARCH
Stated purpose: GRANTS PROVIDED TO SUPPORT BLINDNESS ALLEVIATION PROGRAM; EYE SURGERY; SURGICAL EQUIPMNET AND EDUCATION. IN KIND GRANTS OF EQUIPMENT AND TRAINING
Stated purpose: GRANTS PROVIDED TO SUPPORT BLINDNESS ALLEVIATION PROGRAM; EYE SURGERY; SURGICAL EQUIPMNET AND EDUCATION. IN KIND GRANTS OF EQUIPMENT AND TRAINING
Stated purpose: GRANTS PROVIDED TO SUPPORT BLINDNESS ALLEVIATION PROGRAM; EYE SURGERY; SURGICAL EQUIPMNET AND EDUCATION. IN KIND GRANTS OF EQUIPMENT AND TRAINING
Stated purpose: GRANTS PROVIDED TO SUPPORT BLINDNESS ALLEVIATION PROGRAM; EYE SURGERY; SURGICAL EQUIPMNET AND EDUCATION. IN KIND GRANTS OF EQUIPMENT AND TRAINING
Stated purpose: GRANTS PROVIDED TO SUPPORT BLINDNESS ALLEVIATION PROGRAM; EYE SURGERY; SURGICAL EQUIPMNET AND EDUCATION. IN KIND GRANTS OF EQUIPMENT AND TRAINING
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $834k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- LWLIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $575k · revenue +74%
- TCTHE CARTER CENTER INC2× · 2023–2024 · $370k · revenue +6%
- SESURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $112k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- SCSURGIVISION CONSULTANTS INCone grant, 2023 · $23k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Servants For Sight's mission is to help disadvantaged people, in South Carolina and in third world countries, get the eye care they need to lead productive lives. We provide eye exams, eyeglasses and surgery to poverty stricken and…
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Empower communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness.
Description of organization mission the schepens eye research institute ("schepens") fights blindness by developing new technologies, therapies and knowledge to retain and restore vision. through a continuum of discovery, the institute…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seva Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SERGE GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIGHT FOR SOULS ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Himalayan Cataract Project Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lions World Vision Institute Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.