· Private foundation
Onesight Essilorluxottica Foundation Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of ONESIGHT ESSILORLUXOTTICA FOUNDATION FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k41 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+7 grants · $7.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FONDAZIONE ONESIGHT ESSILORLUXOTTICA ITALIA ETS | $2,765,634 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,233,669 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,048,921 |
| Individual grant recipient | $703,818 |
| Individual grant recipient | $380,520 |
| HAND IN HAND INDIA | $331,981 |
| Individual grant recipient | $263,603 |
| CENTUM AFRICA FOUNDATION | $187,022 |
| Individual grant recipient | $186,342 |
| HAND IN HAND INDIA | $141,694 |
| 2024 DIRECT ACTION CHARITY PROGRAMS CAMBODIA | $113,837 |
| KENYA SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND | $107,019 |
| HAND IN HAND INDIA | $106,275 |
| CENTUM AFRICA FOUNDATION | $99,280 |
| Individual grant recipient | $98,514 |
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 US giving — 41% of grant dollars ($19M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 59% that went abroad ($27M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 67% 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.
Beyond the US — 59% of all-years giving ($27M)
34 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 81% of Onesight Essilorluxottica Foundation Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 40% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 21% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 61 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.7M 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
- TRTHE ROSEWOOD FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $9.0M · revenue -99% · 100% of their budget
- VIVISION IMPACT INSTITUTE6× · 2017–2022 · $8.5M · revenue -61% · 56% of their budget
- BFBASIX-ACADEMY FOR BUILDING LIFELONG EMPLOYABILITY4× · 2017–2020 · $6.8M
Funded once
- VIVISION IS PRICELESS COUNCIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $62k · revenue +58%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $50k
- EVESSILOR VISION FOUNDATION CANADAone grant, 2023 · $42k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
7 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. 7 of the 101 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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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 Onesight Essilorluxottica Foundation Fund 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.
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