Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES
CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $400,621 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATION ($203,585). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $323k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $401k
- Net assets
- $996k
What Central Susquehanna Sight Services does
Mission
Preventing vision loss and providing support services to people who are blind/visually impaired.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Blind workshop - chairs caned, blind aids and grants
$1,206 spent0% of program spendingSocial services - provide low vision aids, and caseworker non-therapeutic counseling, transporation/escort services, support services such as reading, grocery shopping.
$157,026 spent62% of program spendingPrevention of blindness - conduct vision screenings for preschool children and adults, public education and literature on preventing blindness in a five-county area.
$96,552 spent38% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $254,784.
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.
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 $553k to $658k (+19%).
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 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
James Mccann
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income fell $38k → $34k.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 funders by total. 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
CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% 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 CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 45% · 2019 43% · 2020 41% · 2021 73% · 2022 56% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
33% of CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
63% of CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $147k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $254k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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.
Organizations like CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES: 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 CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES?
- CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $400,621 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATION ($203,585). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $400,621 in grants to CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES?
- COMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $203,585 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 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