How much does Sightlife give?

Sightlife reported 1 itemized grants totaling $5,016, out of $9,588 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.

What does Sightlife fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Health (62%), Education (29%), Human Services (5%).

Who are Sightlife's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Washington State School for the Blind ($89k), Vision For Independence Center ($76k), Sight Connection ($72k).

Does Sightlife fund new organizations?

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Sightlife?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.

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Florida · Public charity

Sightlife

We serve as a global leader and partner to eliminate corneal blindness.

$10k
Granted FY2022: 1
Itemized grants FY2022: 1
Organizations funded FY2022: 100%
First-time grantees FY2022

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Itemized, FY2022: $5k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022: $5,016
Largest grant, FY2022: $5,016
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 8; FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022: 1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Sightlife funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthInternational

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2022	1	$5k	100%
FY2021	3	$21k	33%
FY2020	5	$65k	20%
FY2019	8	$91k	25%
FY2018	6	$95k	17%
FY2017	6	$103k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Health$234kEducation$108kHuman Services$18kRecreation & Sports$14kInternational$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Washington State School for the Blind	$89,050	4	n/a
Vision For Independence Center	$75,540	5	28%
Sight Connection	$72,125	4	3%
Spokane Central Lions Activities Foundation	$51,950	4	11%
Kindering Center	$28,540	3	0%
Northwest Association for Blind Athletes	$13,800	2	1%
Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children	$11,700	2	0%
Type 1 United	$8,000	1	n/a
Lilac Services for the Blind	$8,000	1	1%
Northwest Association for Blind Athletes	$7,960	1	n/a

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All grantees of Sightlife by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Washington State School for the Blind	$89,050	4	n/a
Vision For Independence Center	$75,540	5	28%
Sight Connection	$72,125	4	3%
Spokane Central Lions Activities Foundation	$51,950	4	11%
Kindering Center	$28,540	3	0%
Northwest Association for Blind Athletes	$13,800	2	1%
Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children	$11,700	2	0%
Type 1 United	$8,000	1	n/a
Lilac Services for the Blind	$8,000	1	1%
Northwest Association for Blind Athletes	$7,960	1	n/a
Pacific University	$7,500	1	0%
Himalayan Cataract Project Inc	$5,016	1	0%

Sightlife supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Seattle FoundationWA12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Sightlife

How much does Sightlife give?: Sightlife reported 1 itemized grants totaling $5,016, out of $9,588 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Sightlife fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Health (62%), Education (29%), Human Services (5%).
Who are Sightlife's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Washington State School for the Blind ($89k), Vision For Independence Center ($76k), Sight Connection ($72k).
Does Sightlife fund new organizations?: In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sightlife?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Sightlife based?: Sightlife is based in FL.