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The Eyesight Foundation of Alabama Inc

To serve as a catalyst for improving eyesight through education, research and access to care.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,250,362
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,250,362
Organizations funded a year
2 to 11
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$57M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Eyesight Foundation of Alabama Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$1.5M50%
FY20248$1.5M13%
FY20237$1.8M0%
FY20227$1.8M14%
FY202111$2.1M45%
FY20206$1.8M67%
FY20192$6.2M50%
FY20182$1.9M0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$20MPhilanthropy$996kEducation$120kRecreation & Sports$15k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Alabama at Birmingham$18,389,3509n/a
Sight Savers of America Inc$795,00054%
The Eye Foundation Inc$625,814448%
The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham$295,1791n/a
Community Services Vision Rehab$174,000515%
Impact America$120,00042%
The Red Barn$58,68532%
United Ability Inc$46,01830%
Vulcan Park Foundation$22,00021%
Presbyterian Home for Children$21,62530%
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All grantees of The Eyesight Foundation of Alabama Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Alabama at Birmingham$18,389,3509n/a
Sight Savers of America Inc$795,00054%
The Eye Foundation Inc$625,814448%
The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham$295,1791n/a
Community Services Vision Rehab$174,000515%
Impact America$120,00042%
The Red Barn$58,68532%
United Ability Inc$46,01830%
Vulcan Park Foundation$22,00021%
Presbyterian Home for Children$21,62530%
Alabama Lions Sight Association Inc$20,00031%
Cahaba Valley Health Care Inc$10,00021%
The Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs$5,25910%
Advancing Sight Network$5,00010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Eyesight Foundation of Alabama Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSight Savers of America Inc: $795,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetThe Eye Foundation Inc: $625,814 over 4y, 48% of budgetCommunity Services Vision Rehab: $174,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetImpact America: $120,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetThe Red Barn: $58,685 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetUnited Ability Inc: $46,018 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVulcan Park Foundation: $22,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPresbyterian Home for Children: $21,625 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAlabama Lions Sight Association Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCahaba Valley Health Care Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs: $5,259 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAdvancing Sight Network: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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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 12.

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.

The Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL27.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Protective Life Foundation · Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama · Baptist Health Foundation Inc · Junior League of Birmingham Inc · The Hackney 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 The Eyesight Foundation of Alabama Inc

How much does The Eyesight Foundation of Alabama Inc give?
The Eyesight Foundation of Alabama Inc reported 2 grants totaling $1,546,716 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Eyesight Foundation of Alabama Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (95%), Philanthropy (5%), Education (1%).
Who are The Eyesight Foundation of Alabama Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Alabama at Birmingham ($18M), Sight Savers of America Inc ($795k), The Eye Foundation Inc ($626k).
Does The Eyesight Foundation of Alabama Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Eyesight Foundation of Alabama Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Alabama Power Foundation Inc.
Where is The Eyesight Foundation of Alabama Inc based?
The Eyesight Foundation of Alabama Inc is based in AL.

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 16 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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