California · Nonprofit
CENTER OF VISION ENHANCEMENT
CENTER OF VISION ENHANCEMENT (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,133 to it, the largest being United Way of Merced County ($7,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $478k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $13k
What Center of Vision Enhancement does
Mission
The Center of Vision Enhancement primary mission is to provide services, support, health resource access, training, referrals, education and community outreach for the benefit of persons with any level of visual impairment so as to contribute to their health, security, happiness and usefulness and thereby, inter alia, ameliorate the lack of any such supportive services. To make donations to and dispense charitable contributions through, and otherwise aid and support persons with visual impairment and vision impairment programs, and other organizations qualified for exception.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Support services for visually impaired and blind individuals. Approximately 600 individuals served through our activities. Distributed monthly informational mailings. Participated in community outreach activities to disseminate information and provide referral services. Gave and sold assistance aids, devices and supplies to visually impaired and blind individuals. Hosted the annual cove vision fair with presenters, exhibitors and service agencies for the blind/visually impaired.
$24,301 earned by the programVocational rehabilitation services: provide assessments and training in the areas of assistive technology, independent living skills, orientation & mobility skills, braille, and employment services which include adult work experience and on-the-job training. Services provided to consumers of the department of rehabilitation, blind field services division.
$265,649 spent$270,871 earned by the program61% of program spendingOlder individuals who are blind program: grant program to provide information & referral services, support services, assistive technology aids, devices, and training, travel training, communication skills, and daily living skills training to persons with severe vision loss who are aged 55 or older in order to promote and assist persons in regaining an independent lifestyle. Support groups meet both in-person and remotely. Service areas include merced and mariposa counties.
$168,742 spent$172,058 earned by the program39% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $434,391.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $156k to $93k (−40%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 12% · 2021 21% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of CENTER OF VISION ENHANCEMENT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Margaret Buchmann-Garcia
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $3k → $543.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CENTER OF VISION ENHANCEMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CENTER OF VISION ENHANCEMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CENTER OF VISION ENHANCEMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 74% · 2021 100% · 2022 61% · 2023 69% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
97% of CENTER OF VISION ENHANCEMENT's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $633 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CENTER OF VISION ENHANCEMENT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CENTER OF VISION ENHANCEMENT
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER OF VISION ENHANCEMENT: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER OF VISION ENHANCEMENT?
- CENTER OF VISION ENHANCEMENT (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,133 to it, the largest being United Way of Merced County ($7,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER OF VISION ENHANCEMENT have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $16,133 in grants to CENTER OF VISION ENHANCEMENT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER OF VISION ENHANCEMENT?
- United Way of Merced County is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER OF VISION ENHANCEMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing