Illinois · Nonprofit
ILLINOIS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS
ILLINOIS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being JEROME H STONE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $612k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness does
Mission
Ispb aims to reduce preventable causes of blindness by educating the public on the necessity for and the methods of preventing blindness by attending health fairs and presentations in the community, ensuring access to eye care, funding research, and providing low vision equipment to those who cannot afford it.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public health education - informing the public (especially in low income and under insured areas) about the basic facts of eye care, health and safety through grass roots efforts including health fairs and presentations. We also assist in finding access to quality eye care and service for those who are not insured. Providing seed grants to young, up and coming researchers at accredited universities in illinois. Ispb provides funds to encourage medical students, residents, graduate students, and fellows to find cures and causes of eye disease.
$200,953 spentof which $99,390 as grants55% of program spendingCommunity service - promoting vision screening and exams for the early detection of eye trouble among all illinois residents.
$132,761 spent36% of program spendingEyeglasses/low vision aids - providing individuals with eyeglasses/low vision aids they cannot afford in partnership with illinois low vision clinics.
$30,618 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $364,332.
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 2020 to 2021, from $4.6M to $5.6M (+22%).
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.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of ILLINOIS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS’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.
Where its funders are
100% of ILLINOIS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 ILLINOIS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
25%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ILLINOIS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS: 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 ILLINOIS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS?
- ILLINOIS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being JEROME H STONE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ILLINOIS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,000 in grants to ILLINOIS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS.
- Who is the largest funder of ILLINOIS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS?
- JEROME H STONE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ILLINOIS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 1 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