Florida · Nonprofit
LIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE INC
LIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE INC (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,459,481 to it, the largest being GLAZER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($611,879). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $52M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $44M
What Lions World Vision Institute Inc does
Mission
Increase public awareness with the long-term goal of increasing the number of donated tissues for transplantation and research to improve people's lives and honor the donor's gift.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Lions world vision institute is a nonprofit organization committed to honoring vision as a basic human right. Our work extends around the globe and includes donor family and recipient support, advanced tissue preparation for transplant cases, innovative research and technology development, eye bank and surgeon training programs, pediatric vision services, and community-based education in local and international communities for those who are visually impaired. With our worldwide ecosystem of eye banks, surgeons, and research leaders, we work tirelessly to honor a donor's gift by protecting and supporting sight restoration for hundreds of thousands of people-transforming lives around the world. So the world can see.(continued on schedule o)our cornerstone services include:donation and transplant services: we are a global leader in transplant facilitation, working closely with donor families, transplant recipients, hospitals, and surgeons to provide hope and healing through cornea and tissue transplantation.research & innovation: our medical innovations and research breakthroughs are designed to streamline cornea transplant procedures for surgeons and improve clinical outcomes for…
$36,365,617 spentof which $533,839 as grants$47,873,062 earned by the program90% of program spendingPublic & professional education - increase awareness of need for tissue procurement with long term goal of increasing the number of donors, changing more people's lives, and honoring the gift.
$4,040,625 spent10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $40,406,242.
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 2023 to 2024, from $38M to $50M (+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 7% · 2021 7% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Jason K Woody
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $78k → $772k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.1M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lions World Vision Institute Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of LIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE 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
LIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 LIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 92% · 2020 82% · 2023 71% — growing more concentrated.
“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
25% of LIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
LIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE INC draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Government funding LIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.7M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$267k
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 LIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Lions World Vision Institute Foundation Inc · exempt
- Sightlife · exempt
- Leitr Sightlife Holding Company Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE 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 LIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE INC?
- LIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE INC (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,459,481 to it, the largest being GLAZER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($611,879). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,459,481 in grants to LIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE INC?
- GLAZER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $611,879 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIONS WORLD VISION INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 8 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