Wisconsin · Nonprofit
COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC
COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,084,511 to it, the largest being MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($428,150). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $730k
What Combat Blindness International Inc does
Mission
Combat blindness international, inc. (cbi) eliminates preventable blindness worldwide by providing sustainable, equitable solutions for sight through partnerships and innovation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cataracts - cbi supports free cataract operations for the poor in india, pakistan, south america, africa, and the united states of america. Cbi also provides equipment, medical consumables, and intraocular lenses (iols) for free eye operations for the poor in areas of india. During 2025, cbi helped support over 16,000 surgeries and 700,000 screenings.for the cataract program, combat blindness international, inc. (cbi) collaborates with hospitals in india (bhubaneswar lv prasad eye hospital; shree jalaram eye hospital - meghraj,gujarat; shroff's charity eye hospital - daryaganj, new delhi; jayapriya medical foundation - hubli, karnataka; nav bharat jagriti kendra - hazaribag, jharkhand), south america (fundacion vision - paraguay), pakistan (layton rahmatulla benevolent trust - karachi), and africa (lions sightfirst eye hospital - nairobi, kenya) to provide cataract operations for the poor. Cbi collaborates in the united states of america with the university of wisconsin hospitals and clinics and the university of wisconsin department of opthalmology and visual sciences to provide primary and secondary level of eye care for the underinsured and uninsured residents of dane county,…
$573,866 spentof which $545,991 as grants73% of program spendingPediatric eye care - cbi supports programs in india and paraguay to screen children and provide free pediatric eye surgeries and glasses. In addition, cbi supports a school screening program in madison, wisconsin for four- and five-year-old kindergarten students. During 2025, cbi helped support over 350,000 pediatric screenings and 150 surgeries.for the pediatric program, cbi collaborates with hospitals in india (shree jalaram eye hospital - gujarat, india; usha kiran eye hospital - mysore, india) and paraguay (fundacion vision) to organize and fund programs to screen children for glasses and ophthalmic surgery for the poor. In addition, cbi collaborates with the madison metropolitan school district in madison, wisconsin, to organize and fund school screening for all 4k and 5k students.
$89,270 spentof which $44,781 as grants11% of program spendingEye care personnel training - cbi supports the training of doctors, nurses, and medical personnel to increase eye care capacity. Cbi collaborates with hospitals in india (dr. Shroff's charity eye hospital in delhi and jayapriya medical foundation in hubli) to provide stipends and salary for ophthalmic and administrative personnel. In 2025, cbi helped support the training of 70 ophthalmic personnel.
$85,693 spentof which $69,559 as grants11% of program spendingEye care infrastructure and equipment - cbi supports the building of eye care centers and the donation of equipment to increase access to high-quality, sight-restoring eye care.during 2025, cbi provided funding for eye care equipment to an eye clinic in lebanon.
$34,535 spentof which $34,535 as grants4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $783,364.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.0M to $700k (−30%).
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 5% · 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Reena Chandra Mph
President/executive director
Board chair
Peter Holm Md
Chairman/chief medical officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $11k → $155k.
9 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC’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
COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 39% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
63% 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 COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 68% · 2019 62% · 2020 38% · 2021 40% · 2022 38% · 2023 51% — 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.
How long its funders stay
75% of COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
62% of COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC'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 $413k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $672k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 24 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC?
- COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,084,511 to it, the largest being MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($428,150). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,084,511 in grants to COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC?
- MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $428,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 22 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