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ENVISION FOUNDATION INC

ENVISION FOUNDATION INC (Kansas) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,161,700 to it, the largest being L C INDUSTRIES FOUNDATION ($6,269,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.6M
Funders on record
33
Grants received
$9.2M
Net assets
$5.0M
19/33 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 98%
01What it does

What Envision Foundation Inc does

Mission

To improve the quality of life and provide inspiration and opportunity for people who are blind and visually impaired through employment, outreach, rehabilitation, education and research.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The foundation provides funding for a number of programs and services that benefit blind and low vision individuals. These include: heather's camp, at camp, various art programs, a music program, eyes 4 others and various support group activities for adults, seniors, teens and pre-teens.

    $745,521 spent$39,270 earned by the program
    96% of program spending
  2. The foundation provides fundraising support for a multitude of direct mission services and programs for people who are blind or visually impaired, including: early childhood education (infant through pre-kindergarten), programs for middle and high school students (monthly meetings virtually & weeklong summer conferences to learn assistive technology and get coaching to prepare them for careers or college), an outdoor summer camp with one-on-one mentors, adult support group, art programs for people of all ages who are blind or visually impaired, and rehabilitation services to enable those who have lost or are losing sight maintain independence. See schedule o for continuation.

    $31,313 spentof which $31,313 as grants
    4% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $776,834.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 100 ($5.3M)2018 Revenue 154 ($3.1M) Expenses 99 ($2.0M) Net assets 120 ($6.4M)2019 Revenue 165 ($3.3M) Expenses 121 ($2.5M) Net assets 136 ($7.2M)2020 Revenue 89 ($1.8M) Expenses 132 ($2.7M) Net assets 119 ($6.3M)2021 Revenue 119 ($2.4M) Expenses 117 ($2.4M) Net assets 119 ($6.3M)2022 Revenue 105 ($2.1M) Expenses 41 ($835k) Net assets 122 ($6.4M)2023 Revenue 97 ($2.0M) Expenses 54 ($1.1M) Net assets 107 ($5.6M)2024 Revenue 90 ($1.8M) Expenses 50 ($1.0M) Net assets 92 ($4.9M)2025 Revenue 126 ($2.6M) Expenses 47 ($967k) Net assets 94 ($5.0M)
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Revenue (126)Expenses (47)Net assets (94)Peer revenue range

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 $5.3M to $6.5M (+22%).

$5.3M
$6.5M
$7.4M
$6.4M
$6.3M
$6.5M
$5.8M
$5.0M
$5.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 7% · 2022 2% · 2023 7% · 2024 11% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of ENVISION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$31k
’17
$1.1M
’18
$839k
’19
−$906k
’20
−$1k
’21
$1.3M
’22
$858k
’23
$793k
’24
$1.6M
’25
19
months of
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

Michael Monteferrante

CEO/director/officer

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed2188755687
Joined·+1+0+0+1+1+3+2+0
No longer listed·140131201
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $1.9M.

9 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 ENVISION FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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

ENVISION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

84% 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 ENVISION FOUNDATION INC.

68%
largest funder
84%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 85% · 2019 61% · 2020 45% · 2021 65% · 2022 51% · 2023 77% — 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

45% of ENVISION FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

ENVISION FOUNDATION INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 10 states in all.

ID
WI
MI
NY
IN
RI
VA
KS
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Kansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $444k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ENVISION FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin62% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like ENVISION FOUNDATION 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 Kansas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 6%Fundraising 13%

Governance

6
board members
67%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

80%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 8 related entities

  • Envision Inc · exempt
  • Envision Xpress Inc · exempt
  • Dallas Lighthouse for the Blind Inc · exempt
  • Envision Vision Rehabilitation Center · exempt
  • Envision Industries Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds ENVISION FOUNDATION INC?
ENVISION FOUNDATION INC (Kansas) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,161,700 to it, the largest being L C INDUSTRIES FOUNDATION ($6,269,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ENVISION FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $9,161,700 in grants to ENVISION FOUNDATION INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ENVISION FOUNDATION INC?
L C INDUSTRIES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,269,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ENVISION FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 33 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