Colorado · Public charity
Optometry Giving Sight
OPTOMETRY GIVING SIGHT targets the prevention of blindness & impaired vision due to uncorrected refractive error through education, training, service delivery and advocacy.
- $743k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $320k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $90,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 56% of the organizations Optometry Giving Sight funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $320k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $395k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $192k | 80% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $98k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $90k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $125k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $6k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $120k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity Inc | $340,000 | 5 | 43% |
| World Council of Optometry Inc | $182,031 | 3 | 10% |
| The Disability Fund Inc | $155,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Special Olympics Inc | $130,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sightsavers Inc | $70,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Vision for the Poor | $55,000 | 1 | 30% |
| Seva Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Eyelliance Inc | $45,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Light for the World USA Inc Co Herta K | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity Inc | $340,000 | 5 | 43% |
| World Council of Optometry Inc | $182,031 | 3 | 10% |
| The Disability Fund Inc | $155,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Special Olympics Inc | $130,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sightsavers Inc | $70,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Vision for the Poor | $55,000 | 1 | 30% |
| Seva Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Eyelliance Inc | $45,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Light for the World USA Inc Co Herta K | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Restoringvision | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Hope Alliance | $35,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Ohio Optometric Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 42% |
| Guerrero Crystal Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 23% |
| In Her Vision Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kids Doc on Wheels | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Vision Impact Institute | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Healing California | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Saving Kidsight | $7,500 | 1 | 2% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Optometry Giving Sight supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Alcon Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Optometry Giving Sight
- How much does Optometry Giving Sight give?
- Optometry Giving Sight reported 7 itemized grants totaling $320,000, out of $742,588 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Optometry Giving Sight fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (58%), Health (14%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Optometry Giving Sight's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity Inc ($340k), World Council of Optometry Inc ($182k), The Disability Fund Inc ($155k).
- Does Optometry Giving Sight fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Optometry Giving Sight?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Alcon Foundation Inc, American Endowment Foundation, Network for Good.
- Where is Optometry Giving Sight based?
- Optometry Giving Sight is based in CO.
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