Michigan · Nonprofit
Eversight
Eversight (Michigan) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,419,416 to it, the largest being ALLENE REUSS MEMORIAL TRUST ($180,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $34M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Eversight does
Mission
Eversight's mission is to restore sight and prevent blindness through the healing power of donation, transplantation and research. Blinding eye diseases affect 80 million Americans. That means millions of people cannot see their loved ones, drive to work or read the newspaper on a Sunday morning. Their vision loss results in an economic impact of $51.4 billion every year in the United States alone. Eversight envisions a world without blindness-a world where all mothers can see their children and all children can grow up to lead independent, productive lives through the gift of sight. To make vision a reality for all, Eversight continuously works to expand its reach, connect more effectively with communities in need and provide the gift of sight to everyone.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
RESORING SIGHT Eversight continues to take meaningful steps toward transforming the future of vision care by supporting sustainable eye banking infrastructure and providing priceless clinical education. In 2024, Eversight provided the gift of sight to more than 10,200 people across the United States and around the world. Eversight provided 59 corneas for sight-restoring transplants gratis or at a reduced fee for uninsured patients.Eversight's work began in 1947 with the establishment of the fourth eye bank in the United States, then known as the Illinois Eye-Bank. Over time, nonprofit eye banks were established in every state to meet the critical demand for corneal tissue to treat preventable blindness.In 1985, the Illinois Eye-Bank and Michigan Eye-Bank formed a partnershipone that would earn a reputation for clinical excellence made possible by some of the finest medical directors, staff and board members in the eye banking field. The success of the organization attracted affiliations with other regional eye banks forming one of the largest networks of eye banks in the U.S. In 2015, the network became known as Eversight, all working together as a unified operation to deliver the…
$23,033,157 spent$28,388,552 earned by the program95% of program spendingFINDING A CURE In the pursuit of eliminating blinding eye diseases, Eversight established the Eversight Center for Vision and Eye Banking Research in Cleveland, Ohio, to provide leading ophthalmology researchers with the resources they need to find cures and treatments for eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. Eversight provided more than 4,700 tissues for research and education purposes in 2024. Our in-house research team also provided Eversight partners with valuable research and development services and pioneered new eye banking practices.Since 2014, the Eversight researchers have authored 50 publications and given 34+ presentations at international conferences. The team published six publications in 2024 on: comparing cornea storage medias, perceptions of cornea and eye donation, automated counting and density of donor endothelial cells, protocol for corneal stromal stem cell cultivation, using trypan blue for cell viability after preloading DMEK grafts, and docosahexaenoic acid in diabetic humans and mice. With our many academic partners, Eversight researchers have contributed to over 250 peer-reviewed scientific papers that…
$193,609 spentof which $60,000 as grants$75,664 earned by the program1% of program spendingSUSTAINABLE INTERNATIONAL IMPACTEversight works to eliminate corneal blindness worldwide through eye bank development, clinical training and tissue provision. With more than 75 years of eye banking expertise, we deliver both short- and long-term solutions to transform the lives of more than 12 million people suffering from corneal blindness globally. In 2024, Eversight International provided more than 4,200 tissues for transplant and worked with surgeons in 33 countries outside the United States, making the gift of sight possible for many in need. Eversight provided 76 cornea tissues for sight-restoring transplants gratis or at a reduced rate for medical missions and uninsured patients outside the United States.In medically underserved areas, Eversight Global Development fosters authentic relationships with local leaders to establish culturally informed eye donation frameworks and sustainable eye banking infrastructure. Our experienced team offers vital clinical training and education to eye surgeons and eye bank technicians on the latest clinical methods, improving access to life-changing transplants. Through the incredible generosity of our donors and donor families, Eversight…
$1,062,560 spent$2,108,316 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $24,289,326.
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 2018 to 2019, from $24M to $34M (+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: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Diane Hollingsworth
President & CEO
Board chair
Kathy L Zelenock
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 30 funders, grant income rose $14k → $301k.
11 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Eversight’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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
Eversight has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
43% 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 Eversight.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 89% · 2020 78% · 2021 24% · 2022 19% · 2023 17% — 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
33% of Eversight's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
Eversight draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $239k 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.
Government funding Eversight receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $147k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$147k
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 Eversight
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- Eversight International · exempt
- Eversight New Jersey · exempt
- Eversight Michigan · exempt
- Eversight Illinois · exempt
- Midwire Systems · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Eversight: 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 Eversight?
- Eversight (Michigan) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,419,416 to it, the largest being ALLENE REUSS MEMORIAL TRUST ($180,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Eversight have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $1,419,416 in grants to Eversight, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Eversight?
- ALLENE REUSS MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Eversight find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 56 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