· Public charity
National Society to Prevent Blindness
We prevent blindness and preserve sight across all age spectrums and multiple eye conditions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $145k
- $250k+1 grant · $504k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PREVENT BLINDNESS TEXAS | $504,000 |
| PREVENT BLINDNESS IOWA | $29,000 |
| PREVENT BLINDNESS WISCONSIN | $29,000 |
| PREVENT BLINDNESS GEORGIA | $29,000 |
| PREVENT BLINDNESS OHIO | $29,000 |
| PREVENT BLINDNESS NORTH CAROLINA | $29,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $292k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PBPrevent Blindness Texas9× · 2017–2025 · $752k · revenue +26% · 31% of their budget
- NSNATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLIND-9× · 2017–2025 · $292k · revenue +19%
- PBPrevent Blindness Iowa3× · 2021–2025 · $46k · revenue +3%
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +81%- MEMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARYone grant, 2018 · $25k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
A Shared Vision educates, inspires, and empowers families to nurture the development of their young children who are blind or visually impaired. We provide early intervention vision services in families' homes and community settings…
Rpbef provides the organizational and financial resources necessary to support a comprehensive program of eye research.
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
To eliminate treatable blindness through the training of eye care professionals and development of eye care infrastructure.
Prevent Blindness Northern California PBNC exists to screen for vision problems in pre-school aged children in the Bay Area, to connect and provide them with better vision care, and to improve their ability to learn and grow.
The prevention of blindness society of metropolitan washington is dedicated to the improvement and preservation of sight by providing service, education, advocacy and innovation.
Eversight's mission is to restore sight and prevent blindness through the healing power of donation, transplantation and research. Blinding eye diseases affect 80 million Americans. That means millions of people cannot see their loved…
To provide sustainable solutions to the increasing number of people around the world afflicted with retinal diseases.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prevent Blindness Wisconsin and the most unlike its peers is Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 Prevent Blindness Texas ↗
- Who funds National Society to Prevent BlindnessOhio Affiliate ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLIND- ↗
- Who funds Prevent Blindness Wisconsin ↗
- Who funds Prevent Blindness Georgia ↗
- Who funds Prevent Blindness Iowa ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY ↗
- Who funds Fight for Sight Inc ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Association of Chronic Disease Directors · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization National Society to Prevent Blindness 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.
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.