Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
NORTH CENTRAL SIGHT SERVICES INC
NORTH CENTRAL SIGHT SERVICES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,463,374 to it, the largest being HARRY PLANKENHORN FOUNDATION INC ($1,213,430). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $9.5M
What North Central Sight Services Inc does
Mission
Create sustainable, person-centered programs, and employment that enhance independence for individuals with unique visual capabilities. We foster positive change, awareness, and advocacy while removing barriers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program services - to provide adjustment to blindness training and support services for people who are losing their sight to live independently in their own home. This is accomplished by offering a variety of adjustments to blindness services defined by the unique needs of the individual dealing with vision loss. Our screening and education programs are designed to educate the public about good eye health and safety, conduct vision screenings designed to detect symptoms that may indicate vision problems in children and adults and prevent the needless loss of vision. Our remedial eye care program assists customers to purchase discounted eyewear and obtain an eye examination. Our vision clinic provides free eye examinations for community members in need.
$725,982 spent8% of program spendingEmployment- blind and visually impaired associates are provided with a variety of quality employment options, paid significantly above minimum wage while receiving the same benefit package as our professional staff associates. Our most important goal is to create a work enviornment that helps promote a positive image of people who are blind and boost self-esteem. Our goal is to maximize the individual's capability and where possible, promote from within.
$7,715,373 spent$8,763,406 earned by the program83% of program spendingCommercial business - to provide sales, customer service, and marketing support to external and internal customers, educating them about services, projects, and the mission of the organization.
$826,213 spent$4,750 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,267,568.
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 $11M to $12M (+13%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 5% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of NORTH CENTRAL SIGHT SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Kim Zimmer
President/CEO
Board chair
Aaron Carter
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $217k → $307k.
6 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 NORTH CENTRAL SIGHT SERVICES 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
NORTH CENTRAL SIGHT SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 NORTH CENTRAL SIGHT SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 51% · 2019 60% · 2020 54% · 2021 44% · 2022 48% · 2023 58% — broadly stable.
“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
62% of NORTH CENTRAL SIGHT SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
98% of NORTH CENTRAL SIGHT SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $666k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
NORTH CENTRAL SIGHT SERVICES INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding NORTH CENTRAL SIGHT SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.3M on record.
- Department of Defense$11.3M
- General Services Administration$4k
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 NORTH CENTRAL SIGHT SERVICES 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTH CENTRAL SIGHT SERVICES 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 NORTH CENTRAL SIGHT SERVICES INC?
- NORTH CENTRAL SIGHT SERVICES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,463,374 to it, the largest being HARRY PLANKENHORN FOUNDATION INC ($1,213,430). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH CENTRAL SIGHT SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,463,374 in grants to NORTH CENTRAL SIGHT SERVICES INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH CENTRAL SIGHT SERVICES INC?
- HARRY PLANKENHORN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,213,430 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH CENTRAL SIGHT SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing