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New Eyes for the Needy Inc

New Eyes for the Needy Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,562,955 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($725,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$941k
Funders on record
49
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$4.6M
27/49 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What New Eyes for the Needy Inc does

Mission

New Eyes provides the transformative tool of eyeglasses to children and adults facing financial challenges in the United States.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. In FY2025-26, New Eyes purchased new eyeglasses for 15,204 children and adults in financial need in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico at an average cost of $24.69. New Eyes also provided 5,000 new frames, donated by other eyewear manufacturers, for distribution at optical clinics overseas.

    $903,679 spentof which $375,388 as grants$241,903 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. The Organization continues to sell eyeglasses to the public online under Azimuth Eyewear, started in FY2022-23, at market value, directing net proceeds to help fund the e-voucher program.

    $4,228 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $907,907.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($655k) Expenses 100 ($532k) Net assets 100 ($4.0M)2019 Revenue 105 ($686k) Expenses 115 ($614k) Net assets 100 ($4.0M)2020 Revenue 127 ($833k) Expenses 151 ($803k) Net assets 92 ($3.7M)2021 Revenue 121 ($794k) Expenses 109 ($580k) Net assets 122 ($4.9M)2022 Revenue 182 ($1.2M) Expenses 165 ($876k) Net assets 124 ($5.0M)2023 Revenue 320 ($2.1M) Expenses 245 ($1.3M) Net assets 125 ($5.0M)2024 Revenue 66 ($433k) Expenses 247 ($1.3M) Net assets 117 ($4.7M)2025 Revenue 144 ($941k) Expenses 205 ($1.1M) Net assets 113 ($4.6M)
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Revenue (144)Expenses (205)Net assets (113)

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 $3.8M to $5.0M (+32%).

$4.1M
$4.1M
$3.8M
$5.0M
$5.1M
$5.1M
$4.8M
$4.6M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 4% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$123k
’18
$72k
’19
$31k
’20
$214k
’21
$314k
’22
$791k
’23
−$882k
’24
−$148k
’25
1.0
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

Jean Gajano

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed14141512109910
Joined·+2+2+1+4+1+2+2
No longer listed·2146221
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $36k → $69k.

10 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 New Eyes for the Needy Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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

New Eyes for the Needy Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

79% 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 New Eyes for the Needy Inc.

46%
largest funder
69%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 91% · 2019 58% · 2020 61% · 2021 17% · 2022 46% · 2023 39% — 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

38% of New Eyes for the Needy Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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

74% of New Eyes for the Needy Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $404k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 13 states.

IL
WI
MI
NY
OH
NJ
CT
CA
UT
KY
DE
GA
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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

Organizations like New Eyes for the Needy 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 New Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 15%Fundraising 9%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

71%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

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Questions and answers

Who funds New Eyes for the Needy Inc?
New Eyes for the Needy Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,562,955 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($725,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does New Eyes for the Needy Inc have?
IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $1,562,955 in grants to New Eyes for the Needy Inc, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of New Eyes for the Needy Inc?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $725,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like New Eyes for the Needy Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 49 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