Virginia · Public charity
The Vision Council
THE VISION COUNCIL's mission is to position members for success by promoting growth in the vision care industry through education, advocacy, research, consumer outreach, strategic relationship building and industry forums.
- $118k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $27k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,121
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $19M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Vision Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Public BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 3 | $27k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $38k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $6k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $18k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $57k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $25k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $3.0M | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Health$3.1MScience & Tech$53kPublic Benefit$19kPhilanthropy$10k
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Think About Your Eyes LLC | $3,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Optics and Electro Optics Standards Council | $46,681 | 3 | 27% |
| Jobson Healthcare Information LLC | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| New York State Optometric Association Inc | $25,500 | 2 | 3% |
| American National Standards Institute | $24,720 | 4 | 0% |
| New Jersey Society of Optometric Physicians | $18,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Jobson Medical Information LLC | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Web Md | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| GenYOUTH Incorporated | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The American Optometric Association | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Think About Your Eyes LLC | $3,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Optics and Electro Optics Standards Council | $46,681 | 3 | 27% |
| Jobson Healthcare Information LLC | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| New York State Optometric Association Inc | $25,500 | 2 | 3% |
| American National Standards Institute | $24,720 | 4 | 0% |
| New Jersey Society of Optometric Physicians | $18,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Jobson Medical Information LLC | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Web Md | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| GenYOUTH Incorporated | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The American Optometric Association | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Opticians Association of America | $7,500 | 1 | 2% |
About The Vision Council
- How much does The Vision Council give?
- The Vision Council reported 3 itemized grants totaling $26,551, out of $117,689 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Vision Council fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (97%), Science & Tech (2%), Public Benefit (1%).
- Who are The Vision Council's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Think About Your Eyes LLC ($3.0M), Optics and Electro Optics Standards Council ($47k), Jobson Healthcare Information LLC ($30k).
- Does The Vision Council fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is The Vision Council based?
- The Vision Council is based in VA.
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