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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.

$283k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$73k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.8MEducation$799kHuman Services$524kEmployment$351kYouth Development$247kInternational$200kPhilanthropy$106kArts & Culture$85kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $273k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HADLEY$72,500
THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE$50,000
PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND$50,000
VISIONS SERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED$50,000
SUCCESS BEYOND SIGHT$50,000
JBI INTERNATIONAL INC$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SUCCESS BEYOND SIGHT: $50k → 15%VISIONLINK: $50k → 6%ENRICHMENT AUDIO RESOURCES SERVICES: $25k → 22%BENEFICIENT TECHNOLOGY INC: $50k → 8%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $40k → 9%VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $19k → 13%HELEN KELLER SERVICES: $25k → 20%LEARNING ALLY: $50k → 11%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $28k → 7%BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $32k → 9%SUCCESS BEYOND SIGHT: $50k → 15%VISIONLINK (DBA ASSOCIATED SVCS FT BLIND: $50k → 6%BENEFICIENT TECHNOLOGY INC: $35k → 8%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 9%ELIZABETH PIERCE OLMSTED CENTER FOR SIGHT: $14k → 13%HELEN KELLER SERVICES: $25k → 20%LEARNING ALLY: $50k → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 9%CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $66k → 14%LEARNING ALLY: $50k → 11%ASSOCIATED SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 9%CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $60k → 14%LEARNING ALLY: $50k → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 9%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $50k → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 9%CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $50k → 14%CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $44k → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 8%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $5k → 14%HELEN KELLER NATIONAL CENTER: $27k → 17%VISIONS SERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $50k → 17%VISIONS SERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $50k → 17%VISIONS SERVICES FT BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $43k → 17%VISIONS SERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $38k → 17%VISIONS SERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $38k → 17%VISIONS SERVICES FT BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $38k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NC
AL
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 31 repeat orgs$543k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
18

Total granted

$3.7M
$533k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+14%

Still filing today

94%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 IMPAIRED
    6× · 2018–2025 · $275k · revenue +46%
  • PS
    PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
    5× · 2018–2025 · $254k · revenue +27%
  • Learning Ally Inc
    4× · 2017–2021 · $200k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $55k · revenue +64%
  • TA
    Teach Access
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -9%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Visability

Provide innovative training and tools for people who are blind or visually impaired to help them achieve their goals and dreams

Human Services
2
Central Association for the Blind Inc

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…

Health
3
In-Sight

In-sight inspires confidence and builds skills that help people who are visually impaired and blind to thrive and succeed.

Human Services
4
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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5
Braille Institute of America Inc

To positively transform the lives of those with vision loss. (See Schedule O)

Human Services
6
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.

Philanthropy
7
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
The Boston Foundation for Sight Inc

Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.

Human Services
9
Manhattan Eye & Ear Ophthalmology Alumni Foundation Inc
Health
10
Alphapointe

Empowering people with vision loss to achieve their goals and aspirations.

Employment
11
The Maryland School for the Blind

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…

Education
12
Visioncorps

Empowering individuals with vision loss to attain independence.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 52 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/50
Grantees still filing
34/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $275,029 · Human ServicesTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO…VISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $255,700 · Human ServicesVISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VIS…Learning Ally Inc: $200,000 · Human ServicesLearning Ally IncGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $165,000 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INCVisionLink: $125,000 · Human ServicesVisionLinkSUCCESS BEYOND SIGHT INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesSUCCESS BEYOND SIGHT INCHelen Keller Services: $96,600 · Human ServicesHelen Keller ServicesBENEFICENT TECHNOLOGY INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesBENEFICENT TECHNOLOGY INC+4 more: $117,702 · Human Services+4 morePERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $254,000 · EducationPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE…SUNY COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY FOUNDATION: $141,000 · EducationSUNY COLLEGE OF OPTOME…HADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $122,500 · EducationHADLEY INSTITUTE FOR T…THE FILOMEN M DAGOSTINO GREENBERG MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $110,000 · EducationTHE FILOMEN M DAGOSTIN…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $55,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSI…RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOU…The Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $40,000 · EducationNEW YORK INSTITUTE FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION: $40,000 · Education+2 more: $26,000 · EducationPOLUS CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $240,000 · OtherPOLUS CENTER FOR SOCIA…SALUS UNIVERSITY: $121,419 · OtherSALUS UNIVERSITYCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK: $91,800 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES COM…New Hampshire Association for the Blind D/B/A Future in Sight: $60,000 · OtherNew Hampshire Associat…OPEN MIND FOUNDATION: $49,000 · OtherOPEN MIND FOUNDATIONOUR SPACE OUR PLACE INC: $41,000 · OtherTHE NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY: $39,503 · OtherUNITED STATES ASSOCIATION OF BLIND ATHLETES INC: $32,750 · OtherLAVELLE SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $29,875 · OtherTeach Access: $50,000 · OtherTeach Access+5 more: $90,466 · Other+5 moreFOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INC: $187,300 · HealthFOUNDATION OF…RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC: $100,000 · HealthRESEARCH TO P…THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $82,850 · HealthTHE CARROLL C…NATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS: $50,028 · HealthNATIONAL SOCI…AMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INC: $50,000 · HealthAMERICAN COUN…NATIONAL MEDICAL FELLOWSHIPS INC: $20,000 · Health+3 more: $30,000 · Health+3 moreLIGHTHOUSE GUILD INTERNATIONAL INC: $189,884 · PhilanthropySilicon Valley Community Foundation: $75,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC: $115,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC: $66,800 · Arts & CultureAXS Lab Inc: $40,000 · Arts & CultureHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $200,000 · International
Human Services$1,420,031Education$838,500Other$845,813Health$520,178Philanthropy$264,884Arts & Culture$221,800International$200,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $275,029 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetVISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $255,700 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $254,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPOLUS CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $240,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetLearning Ally Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $200,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE GUILD INTERNATIONAL INC: $189,884 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INC: $187,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $165,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSUNY COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY FOUNDATION: $141,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetVisionLink: $125,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetHADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $122,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSALUS UNIVERSITY: $121,419 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC: $115,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE FILOMEN M DAGOSTINO GREENBERG MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $110,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetSUCCESS BEYOND SIGHT INC: $100,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetRESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHelen Keller Services: $96,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK: $91,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBENEFICENT TECHNOLOGY INC: $85,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $82,850 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC: $66,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNew Hampshire Association for the Blind D/B/A Future in Sight: $60,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS: $50,028 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTeach Access: $50,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetOUR SPACE OUR PLACE INC: $41,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK INSTITUTE FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY: $39,503 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES ASSOCIATION OF BLIND ATHLETES INC: $32,750 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetVIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $32,700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $31,616 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $28,386 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMPUTERS FOR THE BLIND: $25,466 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFJC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENRICHMENT AUDIO RESOURCE SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 68% of budgetNATIONAL MEDICAL FELLOWSHIPS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetA CLOSER LOOK INC: $20,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetTHE CITY COLLEGE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES VISION REHAB: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetJBI INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Health Care Association of New York State Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMACULA VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Lavelle Fund for the …The Gibney Family Fou…Sarah Decoizart Perpe…Allene Reuss Memorial…Consumer Technology A…Delta Gamma FoundationMother Cabrini Health…Lappe-Bowman J B for …The New York Communit…William G and Helen C…Citizens Charitable F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…
Lavelle Fund for the Blind IncNY36.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home