Kansas · Nonprofit
ENVISION INC
ENVISION INC (Kansas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,738,111 to it, the largest being JE AND LE MABEE FOUNDATION INC ($850,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $96M
What Envision 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
Envision, inc. Is a supporting organization to five other affiliate 501(c)(3) corporations: envision industries, inc., envision xpress, inc., envision vision rehabilitation center, inc., envision dallas lighthouse foundation and envision foundation, inc. Envision, inc. Provides management and operational support services to these entities.
$2,979,039 spentof which $122,100 as grants$53,347 earned by the program92% of program spendingEnvision conference: an annual multidisciplinary conference for low-vision professionals in optometry, rehabilitation and research.
$247,737 spent$84,970 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,226,776.
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 2020 to 2021, from $90M to $113M (+26%).
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: 2023 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of ENVISION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Michael Monteferrante
CEO/director/officer
Board chair
Sam Williams
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $42k → $153k.
4 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Envision Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ENVISION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ENVISION 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
ENVISION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 49% · 2019 94% · 2020 95% · 2021 48% · 2022 47% · 2023 35% — 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
11% of ENVISION 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
ENVISION INC draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $220k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
ENVISION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ENVISION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $29k on record.
- Department of Justice$29k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ENVISION 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- Envision Industries Inc · exempt
- Envision Xpress Inc · exempt
- Envision Vision Rehabilitation Center Inc · exempt
- Envision Foundation Inc · exempt
- Dallas Lighthouse for the Blind Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ENVISION 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ENVISION INC?
- ENVISION INC (Kansas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,738,111 to it, the largest being JE AND LE MABEE FOUNDATION INC ($850,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ENVISION INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $2,738,111 in grants to ENVISION INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ENVISION INC?
- JE AND LE MABEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $850,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENVISION 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 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