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Midwest Vision Research Foundation Dba Lifelong Vision Foundation at a glance

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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
3
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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.

01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2017 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$262
Median grant
3
States reached
$178k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC$1,150
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - ST LOUIS$1,060
ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY$1,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$1,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$1,000
UCLA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$1,000
RESPONDER RESCUE$262
CELEBRATE JESUS OF HAITI$250
A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND$200
ST LOUIS SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND$150
WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT$60
ST LOUIS CARDINALS COMMUNITY FUND$35
EPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC$18
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $1.9M → 8%UCLA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1k → 14%AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $2.0M → 17%RESPONDER RESCUE: $262 → 5%CELEBRATE JESUS OF HAITI: $250 → 8%ST LOUIS SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $150 → 11%WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT: $60 → 21%FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $500 → 8%FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $1k → 6%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1k → 19%UCLA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - ST LOUIS: $1k → 11%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1k → 21%FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $500 → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1k → 19%EPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $18 → 11%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1k → 21%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1k → 19%ST LOUIS CARDINALS COMMUNITY FUND: $35 → 21%ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $1k → 21%A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND: $200 → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9k · 4 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2017, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$9k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+24%

Still filing today

75%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21
EducationHealthPublic Safety & DisasterReligionYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2020 · $3k · revenue +64%
  • THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $2k · revenue +49%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - ST LOUIS
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • SL
    ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +24%
  • RR
    RESPONDER RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $262 · revenue -44%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
A T Still University of Health Sciences

A.T. Still University of Health Sciences serves as a learning-centered university dedicated to preparing highly competent professionals through innovative academic programs. The University is committed to continuing its osteopathic…

Education
5
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
6
Webster University

Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.

Education
7
The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research

The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.

Education
8
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
9
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
10
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
11
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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12
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis University; the most unlike its peers is Women of Achievement. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $2,000,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOL…BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $1,905,618 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY+3 more: $6,000 · EducationREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $2,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - ST LOUIS: $1,060 · Other+3 more: $113 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $2,150 · HealthST LOUIS SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $150 · HealthRESPONDER RESCUE INC: $262 · Public Safety & DisasterGIFTS OF LOVE HAITI: $250 · ReligionA MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND: $200 · Youth Development
International$2,000,000Education$1,911,618Other$3,173Health$2,300Public Safety & Disaster$262Religion$250Youth Development$200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $1,905,618 over 1y, 0.4% of 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Community Fo…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Midwest Vision Research Foundation Dba Lifelong Vision Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Midwest Vision Research Foundation Dba Lifelong Vision Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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.

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