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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 FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.3M
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$20MPhilanthropy$996kEducation$120kRecreation & Sports$15k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,250,362
Median grant
1
States reached
$57M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UAB DEPT OF OPTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCES$1,250,362
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM$295,179
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%SIGHT SAVERS AMERICA: $170k → 7%UAB THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $1.8M → 16%PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 18%COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR VISION REHABILITATION: $40k → 19%SIGHT SAVERS AMERICA: $170k → 7%UAB THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $1.6M → 16%PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $6k → 18%COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR VISION REHABILITATION: $40k → 19%SIGHT SAVERS AMERICA: $170k → 7%UAB DEPT OF OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCES: $1.6M → 16%COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR VISION REHABILITATION: $40k → 19%SIGHT SAVERS AMERICA: $155k → 7%UAB DEPT OF OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCES: $1.5M → 16%COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR VISION REHABILITATION: $34k → 19%SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA: $130k → 7%UAB DEPT OF OPTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCES: $1.3M → 16%COMMUNITY SERVICES VISION REHAB: $20k → 19%UAB DEPT OF OPTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCES: $1.3M → 16%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BHAM: $290k → 16%UAB CALLAHAN EYE HOSPITAL HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY: $278k → 16%UAB CALLAHAN EYE HOSPITAL HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY: $252k → 16%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BHAM: $207k → 16%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BHAM: $205k → 16%EYE FOUNDATION INC (UAB CALLAHAN EYE HOSPITAL): $82k → 16%UAB CALLAHAN EYE HOSPITAL: $14k → 16%ALABAMA LIONS SIGHT: $10k → 16%ALABAMA LIONS SIGHT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $5k → 16%CAHABA VALLEY HEALTH CARE: $5k → 16%ALABAMA LIONS SIGHT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $5k → 16%UNITED ABILITY: $25k → 16%UNITED ABILITY: $11k → 16%UNITED ABILITY: $10k → 16%THE RED BARN: $25k → 16%THE RED BARN: $19k → 16%THE RED BARN: $15k → 16%VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION: $7k → 16%ADVANCING SIGHT NETWORK: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $295k → 16%IMPACT AMERICA - FOCUS FIRST PROGRAM: $30k → 16%IMPACT AMERICA - FOCUS FIRST PROGRAM: $30k → 16%IMPACT AMERICA-FOCUS FIRST PROGRAM: $30k → 16%IMPACT FOCUS FIRST: $30k → 16%IMPACT AMERICA - FOCUS FIRST PROGRAM: $30k → 16%THE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION: $5k → 16%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 11 repeat orgs$335k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

$20M
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+47%

Still filing today

91%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $295k 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
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SS
    SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $795k · revenue +26%
  • CS
    COMMUNITY SERVICES VISION REHAB
    5× · 2020–2024 · $174k · revenue +30%
  • IA
    Impact America
    4× · 2021–2024 · $120k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • TB
    THE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +19%
  • AS
    ADVANCING SIGHT NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +47%
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
Arizona Lions Vision and Hearing Foundation of Md 21

Provide vision and hearing screening and corrective vision and hearing surgeries to individuals within arizona who economically are unable to afford such services.

Health
3
Restoringvision

To empower lives by restoring vision for millions of people in need.

Health
4
A Shared Vision Partners in Pediatric Blindness and Visual Imp

A Shared Vision educates, inspires, and empowers families to nurture the development of their young children who are blind or visually impaired. We provide early intervention vision services in families' homes and community settings…

Health
5
Blind-Visually Impaired Early Services of Tennesse

Blind early services tn ensures that families are empowered and equipped through specialized programs of support to provide young children who are blind or low vision their absolute best start.

Youth Development
6
Vision Rehabilitation Services of Georgia Inc

Assist individuals who are blind or visually impaired.

Health
7
Eversight

Eversight's mission is to restore sight and prevent blindness through the healing power of donation, transplantation and research. Blinding eye diseases affect 80 million Americans. That means millions of people cannot see their loved…

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8
Georgia Eye Bank Inc

Improving vision and lives through transplantation of ocular tissue and cells, innovation, research, education, and collaboration to advance treatments and patient outcomes.

—
9
Prevent Blindness Texas

to prevent blindness and preserve sight through education, certified vision screening and training, advocacy, research and community and patient service programs

—
10
Visions Services of Washington-Greene

To aide and assist the visually impaired; to assist with education, training, and employment; to promote the interests of the visually impaired, and to create awareness around prevention of unnecessary blindness.

—
11
The Arkansas Lighthouse for the Blind Inc

To improve occupational opportunity and public perception of legally blind arkansans through community engagement, work skills enhancement and the production of quality goods and services.

—
12
The Lighthouse for the Blind in New Orleans Inc

To empower people with disabilities through employment, services and advocacy.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Ability Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Eye Foundation Inc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $18,389,350 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM+4 more: $351,804 · OtherSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC: $795,000 · HealthSIGHT SAV…THE EYE FOUNDATION INC: $625,814 · HealthTHE EYE F…COMMUNITY SERVICES VISION REHAB: $174,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY…THE RED BARN: $58,685 · Health+4 more: $81,277 · HealthTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $700,695 · PhilanthropyImpact America: $120,000 · EducationVULCAN PARK FOUNDATION: $22,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$18,741,154Health$1,734,776Philanthropy$700,695Education$120,000Recreation & Sports$22,000

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

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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $700,695 over 3y, 0.7% 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
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.

The Community Foundat…The Daniel Foundation…Alabama Power Foundat…Hill Crest Foundation…The Joseph S Bruno Ch…Robert R Meyer Founda…Orlean & Ralph W Bees…Protective Life Found…Community Foundation …Baptist Health Founda…Junior League of Birm…The Hackney Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Eyesight Foundation of Alabama Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Eyesight Foundation of Alabama Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 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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