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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation
See schedule oREADER'S DIGEST PARTNERS FOR SIGHT FOUNDATION is dedicated to fostering the independence of people who are blind and visually impaired.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $273k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HADLEY | $72,500 |
| VISIONS SERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $50,000 |
| SUCCESS BEYOND SIGHT | $50,000 |
| PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $50,000 |
| THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE | $50,000 |
| JBI INTERNATIONAL INC | $10,000 |
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, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED6× · 2018–2025 · $275k · revenue +46%- PSPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND5× · 2018–2025 · $254k · revenue +27%
- HKHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL5× · 2017–2021 · $200k · revenue +44%
Funded once
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $55k · revenue +64%- ACAMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +14%
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -9%
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.
Provide innovative training and tools for people who are blind or visually impaired to help them achieve their goals and dreams
To assist people who are blind or visually impaired to achieve their highest level of independence by providing vision rehabilitation services and offering integrated competitive jobs throughout all levels of the association including…
In-sight inspires confidence and builds skills that help people who are visually impaired and blind to thrive and succeed.
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
To positively transform the lives of those with vision loss. (See Schedule O)
Optometry giving sight targets the prevention of blindness & impaired vision due to uncorrected refractive error through education, training, service delivery and advocacy.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
Empowering people with vision loss to achieve their goals and aspirations.
As a statewide resource center, the school provides outreach, educational and residential services for students to reach their fullest potential by preparing them to be as successful, independent, and well-rounded contributing members of…
Empowering individuals with vision loss to attain independence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc and the most unlike its peers is Quorum Outreach and Research Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 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. 50 of the 52 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 THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds VISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds POLUS CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Learning Ally Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE GUILD INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds SUNY COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VisionLink ↗
- Who funds HADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds SALUS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FILOMEN M DAGOSTINO GREENBERG MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS BEYOND SIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds Helen Keller Services ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BENEFICENT TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Association for the Blind D/B/A Future in Sight ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Teach Access ↗
- Who funds OUR SPACE OUR PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds AXS Lab Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK INSTITUTE FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES ASSOCIATION OF BLIND ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
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: Lavelle Fund for the Blind Inc · The Gibney Family Foundation Inc · Sarah Decoizart Perpetual Charitable Tr · Allene Reuss Memorial Trust · Consumer Technology Association Foundation · Delta Gamma Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Lappe-Bowman J B for B-L Fdn-Char Tr · The New York Community Trust · William G and Helen C Hoffman Fdn · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund
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 Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- The New England College of Optometry — 2% of income from government
- National Braille Press Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.