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Vision Impact Institute

To raise awareness about the importance of healthy vision, including the socio-economic impact of uncorrected refractive errors and quality of life benefits of visual correction. Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11k
Granted FY2019
1
Grants FY2019
1
Organizations funded FY2019
100%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$11,100
Largest grant, FY2019
$11,100
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 100% of the organizations Vision Impact Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY20191$11k100%
FY20181$11k0%
FY20171$11kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Health$33k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Academy of Optometry Foundation Inc$22,20021%
American Academy of Optometry$11,10010%

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How do I get to Vision Impact Institute?

Find your warmest path to Vision Impact Institute through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Vision Impact Institute

How much does Vision Impact Institute give?
Vision Impact Institute reported 1 grants totaling $11,100 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Vision Impact Institute fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Health (100%).
Who are Vision Impact Institute's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: American Academy of Optometry Foundation Inc ($22k), American Academy of Optometry ($11k).
Does Vision Impact Institute fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Vision Impact Institute accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Vision Impact Institute based?
Vision Impact Institute is based in TX.

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 2 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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