Skip to content

Missouri · Private foundation

Midwest Vision Research Foundation Dba Lifelong Vision Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$7k
Granted FY2017
13
Grants FY2017
13
Organizations funded FY2017
Read the full brief

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Midwest Vision Research Foundation Dba Lifelong Vision Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to American Society For Technion - Israel Institute Of Technology Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Midwest Vision Research Foundation Dba Lifelong Vision Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $7k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

12
’17
3
’19
2
’20
1
’21
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2017
$262
Largest grant, FY2017
$1,150
States reached, FY2017
3
Total assets, FY2017
$178k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Science & Tech$2.0MEducation$1.9MHealth$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$262International$250Community Improvement$60Philanthropy$35Human Services$18

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Johns Hopkins University$3,00030%
The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc$2,15030%
Regents Univ of California$2,0002n/a
Washington University$2,00020%
St Louis University$1,00010%
Responder Rescue Inc$26210%
Gifts of Love Haiti$25010%
A Million Stars Inc Dba College Bound$20010%
St Louis Society for the Blind$15010%
Women of Achievement$601n/a
Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Midwest Vision Research Foundation Dba Lifelong Vision Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Johns Hopkins University$3,00030%
The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc$2,15030%
Regents Univ of California$2,0002n/a
Washington University$2,00020%
St Louis University$1,00010%
Responder Rescue Inc$26210%
Gifts of Love Haiti$25010%
A Million Stars Inc Dba College Bound$20010%
St Louis Society for the Blind$15010%
Women of Achievement$601n/a
St Louis Cardinals Community Fund$3510%
Epworth Children & Family Services Inc$1810%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($1k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Midwest Vision Research Foundation Dba Lifelong Vision Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJohns Hopkins University: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc: $2,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWashington University: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Louis University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetResponder Rescue Inc: $262 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGifts of Love Haiti: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA Million Stars Inc Dba College Bound: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Louis Society for the Blind: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Louis Cardinals Community Fund: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEpworth Children & Family Services Inc: $18 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way of Greater St Louis IncMO13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Compare Midwest Vision Research Foundation Dba Lifelong Vision Foundation with peer funders

About Midwest Vision Research Foundation Dba Lifelong Vision Foundation

How much does Midwest Vision Research Foundation Dba Lifelong Vision Foundation give?
Midwest Vision Research Foundation Dba Lifelong Vision Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $7,185 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Midwest Vision Research Foundation Dba Lifelong Vision Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Science & Tech (51%), Education (49%), Health (0%).
Who are Midwest Vision Research Foundation Dba Lifelong Vision Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Johns Hopkins University ($3k), The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc ($2k), Regents Univ of California ($2k).
Does Midwest Vision Research Foundation Dba Lifelong Vision Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Midwest Vision Research Foundation Dba Lifelong Vision Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater St Louis Inc, St Louis Community Foundation Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Midwest Vision Research Foundation Dba Lifelong Vision Foundation based?
Midwest Vision Research Foundation Dba Lifelong Vision Foundation is based in MO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Midwest Vision Research Foundation Dba Lifelong Vision’s filings →

More from the funding graph