· Public charity
National Society to Prevent Blindness
We prevent blindness and preserve sight across all age spectrums and multiple eye conditions.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $145k
- $250k+1 grant · $504k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PREVENT BLINDNESS TEXAS | $504,000 |
| PREVENT BLINDNESS NORTH CAROLINA | $29,000 |
| PREVENT BLINDNESS WISCONSIN | $29,000 |
| PREVENT BLINDNESS OHIO | $29,000 |
| PREVENT BLINDNESS GEORGIA | $29,000 |
| PREVENT BLINDNESS IOWA | $29,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- MEMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARYone grant, 2018 · $25k
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +81%- IBIdaho Bureau of Educational Service for Blindone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
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.
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.
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.
To eliminate treatable blindness through the training of eye care professionals and development of eye care infrastructure.
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
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…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 13 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization National Society to Prevent Blindness funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Society to Prevent Blindness. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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